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Holocaust survivors fondly remembered
[huge_it_slider id=”5″] EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP —The names of more than 200 deceased Holocaust survivors were read aloud in the pouring rain and blustery wind Sunday morning as their sons, daughters, nieces and nephews gathered for the annual Mitzvah Zecher Avot, or “the good deed of remembering family,” at Rodef Sholom Cemetery. The service, which included […]
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Marching toward a world without genocide
“When you listen to a witness, you become a witness,” Elie Wiesel often said. Those words are the driving force behind the March of the Living, an event that brings thousands of young people from around the world to Poland every spring. There they visit the places where crimes against humanity took place. The name […]
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Holocaust survivor delivers message of forgiveness
[huge_it_slider id=”4″] At dawn on an early spring day in 1944, a young Eva Mozes Kor and her family were freed from the overcrowded cattle car they’d been standing in for four days. As the doors opened, the family of six who’d been the only Jews living in a German occupied town in Romania […]
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Holocaust Survivor Experiences Her Own Rescue in Virtual Reality
Amélie Diamant-Holmstrom fled Europe in 1940 on a ship of young refugees. That journey is the subject of the Defying the Nazis VR experience In 1940, Amélie Diamant-Holmstrom was one of the 29 children who arrived in the United States aboard the Excambion, a ship carrying child refugees from Nazi-occupied France, who escaped via Portugal. That […]
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Project to Build Visual Memory of Places & People Before, During the Holocaust
The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure project convened 30 historians and researchers at Yad Vashem to provide tools to improve access to Holocaust documentation. Films from the Holocaust period are filled with haunting images, providing a rare opportunity for researchers to piece together the stories of lives cut brutally short. In today’s digital age, such film […]
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A room in the ECB’s basement held thousands of Jews during the Holocaust
FRANKFURT – The European Central Bank’s new headquarters towers over the Main River in Frankfurt, a gleaming symbol of modern Europe. At its base stands a searing reminder of the continent’s dark history. Below the newly built skyscraper, a concrete ramp stretches down into a dark basement. Ten-thousand Jews awaited expulsion to concentration camps from […]
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IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS follows the March of the Living
IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS follows the March of the Living This week W5’s Sandie Rinaldo joins a new generation confronting the horrors of the past. IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS follows the March of the Living, as teens travel to the death camps in Poland and hear first-hand from the dwindling numbers of aging survivors of the […]
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‘Second Generation’ leader tells of need to keep Shoah memory
One of the most prominent leaders of the children of Holocaust survivors has attacked people who attempt to “pervert the memory of the Holocaust”. Menachem Rosensaft described as “obscene” those who “wish to twist and distort” the Shoah for political purposes. Mr Rosensaft, a lawyer, who was the guest of the Holocaust Educational Trust at […]
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The Strange Case of a Nazi Who Became an Israeli Hitman
Otto Skorzeny, one of the Mossad’s most valuable assets, was a former lieutenant colonel in Nazi Germany’s Waffen-SS and one of Adolf Hitler’s favorites. On September 11, 1962, a German scientist vanished. The basic facts were simple: Heinz Krug had been at his office, and he never came home. The only other salient detail known […]
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Holocaust heroine’s will, lost photos, unearthed in Scotland
A Holocaust heroine’s last will and testament has been unearthed in church archives in Scotland, offering a glimpse into the incredible life of Jane Haining, who died in Auschwitz in 1944. The handwritten will and previously unpublished photographs were recently found in a box in the Church of Scotland World Mission Council’s archives in Edinburgh. […]
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