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Should Mel Gibson Be Forgiven Because He Helps Holocaust Survivors?
Haaretz – Before his star rapidly plunged to earth following a series of image-destroying events — racist and anti-Semitic remarks, crude and drunken behavior and alleged domestic violence — Mel Gibson was a Hollywood power player, a wealthy, successful actor, director and producer. Now, more than a decade after his downward spiral began in 2006, […]
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First Ever Holocaust Survivor Testimony in Room-Scale Virtual Reality to World Premiere at 2017 Tribeca Film Festival
Virtual reality lab LightShed, in partnership with USC Shoah Foundation, MPC VR, OTOY, Inc., and HERE BE DRAGONS, proudly announce the world premiere of the first-ever Holocaust survivor testimony in room-scale VR, THE LAST GOODBYE, at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by AT&T. The experience will premiere within the Festival’s cutting edge new media […]
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Holocaust survivor: ‘I became B-1148 instead of a human being’
Yahoo News – Michael Bornstein was a small child when Nazi soldiers sent him and his family to one of the most evil places the world has ever known. “From what we’ve been told, children my age, about 4, survived about two weeks at Auschwitz. I was able to survive a much longer time,” Bornstein, […]
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Rabbi Sacks on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel is dangerously wrong because beneath the surface it’s an attempt to delegtimize Israel as a prelude to its elimination. No Jew and no humanitarian can stand by and see that happen. Let me explain why. (Learn more from Rabbi Sacks visit www.RabbiSacks.org. Video produced by www.WhiteAnimation.com.) […]
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March of the Living Sponsors Holocaust Educational Symposium at Loyola Law School on The Nuremberg Laws and The Nuremberg Trials
On Tuesday, February 28th, International March of the Living co-sponsored a Holocaust Educational Symposium on the Nuremberg Laws and the Nuremberg Trials, held at Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, in cooperation with the International and Comparative Law Review and Loyola Center for the Study of Law and Genocide. The Nuremberg Laws, which were implemented […]
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March of the Living Seminar at Polin Jewish Museum in Warsaw
In February 2017, March of The Living leaders and organizers from the UK and South American held seminars at the Polin Jewish Museum in Warsaw. They studied how to use affectively and professionally the limited time they have, when visit the Museum with their delegations. In addition to the program at the Museum, they visit […]
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The untold story of the Jews forced to work in Nazi death factories
Haaretz – Talking to: Dr. Gideon Greif, 65, expert on the history of Auschwitz and chief historian of Shem Olam: The Holocaust Faith Institute for Education, Documentation and Research. Where: A Tel Aviv café. When: Thursday at 7 P.M. You returned from Germany today. What was the purpose of your visit? I gave a series […]
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A whole new Jew: The antisemite who turned out to be one of the Jews he despised
WHAT IF, Csanád Szegedi wants to know, pondering the subtleties of halacha, a Jewish man gets circumcised only as an adult and, being under anesthesia during the procedure, can’t recite the requisite blessing? Is his circumcision still halachically valid? And what if, he inquires next, exhibiting restless curiosity, the surgeon isn’t Jewish? Oh, and can […]
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Polish Historians Publish Detailed List of Auschwitz Nazi Guards
Haaretz – Polish historians put online what they describe as the most complete list of Nazi SS commanders and guards at the former German death camp of Auschwitz. The Institute of National Remembrance said Monday that the SS KL Auschwitz Garrison list is based on data from archives in Poland, Germany, Austria, the United States […]
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Alumni Reflection: Noelle Chin-Vance, Leo Martin, 2016
I don’t usually post anything on Facebook, besides happy pictures of my experience as a college student, however, today is different. As I was walking by Turlington I was a witness of a group of people shouting “No more Nazis!”. I knew about there being a man who walked around wearing a swastika. I knew […]
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