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Exclusive: Facebook post helps posthumously honor Dutch couple for Holocaust heroism
Nadine Wojak tells the incredible story of finding the relatives of those who saved her mother during WWII – Holocaust Nadine Wojakovski tells the incredible story of tracing relatives of those who saved her mother during WWII In 2015 I published a memoir, based on the true story of my mother Renata Bitterman’s life in […]
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Colleges aren’t just politically correct — they’re anti-Semitic
It was billed as a rally for students to demand free tuition from public institutions of higher education and lodge a cornucopia of grievances. Instead, some giddy demonstrators devolved into a pack of rabid haters. “Death to Jews! Death to Jews!” members of the crowd shrieked. This didn’t happen in Germany in the 1930s, nor […]
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Steven Sotloff, Beheaded Journalist, Grandson of Holocaust Survivors
60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl interviews the parents of Steven Sotloff, the American-Israeli journalist who was kidnapped in Aleppo, Syria in August 2013. Sotloff, the grandson of Holocaust survivors, was held captive by members of ISIS/ISIL including Mohammed Emwazi (aka Jihadi John), who demanded a $100 million ransom from the U.S. government (and for all […]
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Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate lights up in solidarity with Israeli terror victims
Israeli ambassador welcomes gesture, says Israel and Germany will face evil together Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate lit up in the colors of the Israeli flag on Monday, in a show of solidarity with the victims of Sunday’s Jerusalem truck-ramming attack. Four Israeli soldiers aged 20 to 22 were killed in the attack when East Jerusalem resident […]
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Celebrities to Gather for Reading of Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night’
More than 50 luminaries from the performing arts and politics, as well as other public figures, will gather on Jan. 29 to read Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece “Night” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Lower Manhattan. The event, which is presented by the museum and the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene, is meant to honor both […]
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Tackling the Holocaust in 140 Characters: The Man Behind Auschwitz Museum’s Twitter Account
Long before he moved to Oswiecim to become the spokesman for the Auschwitz museum and lead its social media effort, Pawel Sawicki’s life was intricately connected to this sleepy Polish town near Krakow. A Warsaw-area journalist for Polish Radio 2, Sawicki used to visit Oswiecim as a boy on holidays to stay with his grandparents […]
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Non-Jewish Poles don yarmulkes to protest anti-Semitism
On a quiet Thursday evening, Café Foksal in central Warsaw suddenly filled up with about 50 people wearing kippahs. The event was unusual for a city with very few observant Jews and an insignificant number of Israeli tourists. What made it exceptional is that almost none of the yarmulke wearers were Jewish. It was the […]
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The Holocaust Survivor Who Hated Anne Frank
The last Holocaust survivor died last week. Well, Trudy (not her real name) wasn’t literally the last survivor – though that day is not far off. But she was my last Holocaust survivor, the last one I knew as a genuine friend, not as a congregant, or a colleague, or a symbol. She was a […]
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YAFFE ELIACH, HOLOCAUST SCHOLAR, REMEMBERED
We sat together, both students of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) in the early 1970s. Even then, Yaffe Eliach, distinguished scholar in Holocaust studies and creator of the Tower of Faces, an exhibit of photographs on permanent display at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, […]
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This Day in Jewish History 1945: The Nazis Murder a Former Mayor of Berlin
Jewish only in origin, Fritz Elsas had been a good German, but was arrested after the attempt to kill Hitler and died in a concentration camp. On January 4, 1945, Fritz Elsas, a former mayor of Berlin and part of a resistance group planning for a post-Nazi Germany, was executed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. […]
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