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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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Holocaust survivors’ 3D project preserves testimony for the future
Steven Frank, 81, sits in a red leather button-back armchair, answering questions from schoolchildren. “What was the first thing that made you smile after the Holocaust?” A cup of tea made with sweetened condensed milk, says Frank; it was “nectar from the gods”. Another asks: can you forgive? Frank says: “You will never, ever forget […]
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Is It Time to Recognize the Jewish Oskar Schindlers?
This summer, the Jewish Rescuers Citation was awarded posthumously to Wilfrid Israel, a long-forgotten German Jew. He saved the lives of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, but lost his life in 1943 when, for reasons unknown, the plane he was on was shot down by the German air force. His citation was initiated by […]
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Holocaust jacket found at tag sale leads to a life story
The blue and grey stripes struck Jillian Eisman like a lightning bolt. She was rummaging through a packed closet during a Long Island tag sale when she immediately recognized the symbol of horror and hate: a jacket worn by a prisoner at the Nazi Dachau concentration camp during World War II. “I knew exactly what […]
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Police: Stolen Nazi Camp Gate Probe Could Be Complicated
The investigation into how an iron gate stolen from the Nazis’ Dachau concentration camp in southern Germany ended up in western Norwaymay be complicated because “no useable evidence” has been found, police said Saturday. Police spokeswoman Kari Bjoerkhaug Trones says the gate with the cynical slogan “Arbeit macht frei” — “Work sets you free” — […]
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Jews of Aden recall the pogrom sparked by UN vote on Palestine partition plan
Shimon Sasson, 84, of Tel Aviv, was 15 when the riots broke out in the port city of Aden. It happened just after November 29, 1947, the date on which the United Nations approved the partition plan for Palestine, paving the way for the founding of the State of Israel. “I heard the report on […]
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France Returns Nazi-looted Art to Holocaust Survivor’s Grandson
France has returned a 16th century work of Nazi-looted art to heirs of the Jewish family that was forced to sell it in Paris during Nazi occupation in World War II. French Culture Minister Audrey Azoulay handed the painting attributed to Flemish artists Joos van Cleve or his son back to its rightful owners, at […]
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Honoring Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust Witness Who Kept a Memory Alive
Five months after his death, Elie Wiesel’s family gathered in DC on Wednesday with prominent political figures from the writer and Nobel laureate’s adopted country to honor his contributions to Jewish history and memory. Mr. Wiesel was born in Romania, survived the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps and spent considerable time in Europe and remote corners […]
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Posthumous honor for US officer who saved 200 Jewish GIs from the Nazis — and never told a soul
NEW YORK — In a singular act of humanity and defiance, Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds stood up to a German commandant and saved 200 American Jewish GIs from transportation to a slave labor camp. It was 1945 and Edmonds had been a prisoner of war in Stalag IX-A, a German POW camp for less than […]
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