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Second-generation Holocaust survivors discover living relatives
Second-generation Holocaust survivors met their relatives in Jerusalem for the first time on Tuesday, having discovered they still had surviving family thanks to Yad Vashem. Siblings Fania Bilkai and Gennadi Band thought their entire extended family had been murdered in the Holocaust until earlier this year, when Fania found a page of testimony about her […]
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Second Generation Challenges
Marilyn Sinclair stood in front of a packed Toronto conference room a few weeks ago and told the 200 people gathered there, “We were the children with no grandparents. We had walls with no family pictures.” By the time she got to “we secretly wished we had parents who wore blue jeans, who didn’t have […]
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Insiders at Google are ‘disturbed’ by its Holocaust search results, and now they’re doing something about it
Google engineers and executives are disturbed by how its algorithm promotes offensive and fake content on the web — such as a Holocaust denial site reaching the top result for certain searches about the Holocaust — and they are doing something about it, search expert and editor of Search Engine Land Danny Sullivan reports. After […]
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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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