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World’s Oldest Working Journalist, 90-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Noah Klieger, Fears Nazi Genocide Will Be Forgotten in 50 Years
One of Israel’s best-known Holocaust survivors told a packed audience in Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening about his genuine fear that the Nazi genocide will not be remembered 50 years from now. Noah Klieger expressed this concern at an event that doubled as the release of a documentary film about his having staved off the gas chambers at Auschwitz […]
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Holocaust Survivor Has One Regret About Hunting Nazis
(AP) TEL AVIV, Israel — Seventy years after the most daring attempt of Jewish Holocaust survivors to seek revenge, the leader of the plot has only one simple regret — that to his knowledge, he didn’t actually kill any Nazis. Joseph Harmatz is one of the few remaining Jewish “Avengers” who carried out a mass […]
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Rivlin Meets Daughter of Greek Mayor Who Saved Jews in Holocaust
YERUSHALAYIM – President Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday met in his office with Lana Karrer, daughter of Loukas Karrer who served as Mayor of the Greek island of Zakynthos during the Nazi occupation of the island. Mayor Karrer, together with the local bishop, was responsible for saving the nearly 300 Jews who lived on the […]
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Keeping the Legacy of the Holocaust Alive
“How does one take on the memories of another person, let alone the collective memories of millions?” That was a question posed by Andrea Bolender at a tribute dinner last night to benefit the Holocaust Museum and Tolerance Center of Nassau County. The question is a conundrum, but one that must be answered by all […]
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Holocaust survivor Max Steinmetz shares his harrowing story, and says ‘anything can happen’ today
[huge_it_slider id=”3″] Roy S. Johnson | [email protected] It’s not always easy to talk about history—not the most wrenching and shameful periods, the heinous events and people without conscience that have high-jacked us and ripped us apart over the centuries. It’s especially hard for those who witnessed it, endured it and survived it. For those who […]
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German court jails 87-year-old Holocaust denier
An 87-year old German woman dubbed the ‘Nazi granny” by German media has been convicted of Holocaust denial and sentenced to eight months in prison for incitement to hatred. Ursula Haverbeck wrote a letter in February to the mayor of Detmold, the city where former Auschwitz guard Reinhold Hanning was going on trial, in which she said that the Nazi death […]
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U.S. Holocaust museum urges world leaders to press Iran on Holocaust denial
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum urged world leaders to press Iran’s leadership on its Holocaust denial during the U.N. General Assembly. “We want to make sure that the upcoming discussion at the United Nations is informed by facts about official Iranian efforts to promote racism and extremism in the form of Holocaust […]
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Israeli war hero orphaned in Holocaust remembered in Russia
KAZAN, Russia (JTA) — Russia’s chief rabbi and several Israel Defense Forces generals commemorated a late war hero in a city he passed through while fleeing Europe during the Holocaust. Avigdor Ben-Gal, better known as Yanush, died in February in Israel, a country he reached in 1943 at the age of 6 together with hundreds […]
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Holocaust denial fliers circulate on Australian campuses
Material linking to conspiracy theory website asserts that the field of Holocaust studies is ‘replete with nonsense’ A nti-Semitic pamphlets claiming that the Holocaust is a hoax have been distributed at several Australian universities The leaflets turned up in Monash University, the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University, and the University of NSW […]
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German Teachers Union Calls For Total Boycott Of Israel
TEL AVIV – Israel’s embassy in Berlin lambasted the city of Oldenburg teachers union over a call to completely boycott the Jewish state in the first such incident since the Holocaust, the Jerusalem Post reported. The damning two-page article was published in the September magazine of the Education and Science Workers’ Union (GEW). The paper, entitled “Palestine/Israel: Documenting injustice […]
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