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‘My survival journey’: Holocaust survivor Irene Miller
**This story has been corrected to say the name of Miller’s memoir is “Into No Man’s Land” and Miller and her family left the Siberian labor camp after the war ended and she and her sister went to an orphanage after the war. Not one of the of nearly 70 members of the extended family of […]
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Holocaust Scholar: International community must stop Syria atrocities
Shalev was speaking at the opening of the International Institute for Holocaust Research’s conference titled “The Jewish Refugee Problem During the Shoah (1933-1945) Reconsidered.” World leaders and the global community must implement in Syria the principles they enacted after World War II, the chairman of Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, Avner Shalev, said Sunday at a […]
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Holocaust deniers able to rise to top of Google search results
Stormfront has the dubious distinction, via the Southern Poverty Law Center, of being “the first major hate site on the Internet.” That online longevity has also helped it earn the top spot in Google’s search results when users type “Did the Holocaust happen” into the search field, but it’s Google’s reaction to the outcry over […]
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How Hitler won Germans over with his ‘scientific religion’
The Nazis conducted experiments on her mother and nailed her father’s tongue to a wall. And yet, Israeli lecturer Tamar Ketko still managed to be shocked by what she found in Nazi textbooks she discovered in a Zurich library cellar. Talking to: Dr. Tamar Ketko, lecturer in philosophy of history and of education at Kibbutzim […]
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Warsaw museum to offer high-tech posthumous talks with Poles who saved Jews
Polish and Israeli officials announced the future opening of an innovative museum honoring non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews from the Holocaust. The museum, which will feature interactive 3D videos of saviors of Jews, is slated to open in 2018 in the center of Warsaw under the auspices of the TSKZ cultural association […]
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How I Reunited My Holocaust Survivor Father With His Long Lost Neighbor
Jerzy “Jurek” Skarżyński had been up half the night. The next day he was going to meet the daughter and grandson of a Jewish man who once lived in Uchanie, his home village, and his mind would not slow down. Jurek, a Polish Christian, had not spoken to an Uchanie Jew since June 10, 1942 […]
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Alumni Reflection: Julia Ellis “I Traveled All The Way To Poland To March For Those Who No Longer Can—And It Changed My Life Forever”, 2016
I went on March of the Living to make sure that not one victim of the Holocaust died in vain; I promise I will never forget. by Julia Ellis I don’t even know how to begin talking about this trip, but I’m going to try my best to do it justice. In May of my senior […]
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Marking the Ghosts in Poland’s Old Jewish Cemeteries
How do you alert people to an absence? Across Poland, different communities come together to clean up and restore Jewish cemeteries. But in some places, those cemeteries have been not just neglected, but replaced — with sites ranging from stadiums to parking lots to playgrounds. That’s where Katarzyna Kopecka, Piotr Pawlak, and Jan Janiak come […]
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Students learn from survivors
Miami-Dade College students were inspired by courageous stories that Holocaust survivors shared with them in round table discussions. This took place at MDC‘s North Campus during a recent Student Awareness Day presented by the Holocaust Documentation & Education Center (HDEC). There were 130 students who heard discussions from approximately 13 Holocaust survivors and a couple […]
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Holocaust survivors rush to beat deadline on Poland claims
WARSAW, Poland — A Jewish organization launched a database to help thousands of Holocaust survivors or their heirs regain property lost in Warsaw due to World War II and communism, after the Polish government issued a six-month deadline on claims. The World Jewish Restitution Organization, or WJRO, announced the new tool Monday, three months after […]
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