Video by Lucila Shuschner, Tarbut School, Argentina Delegation, 2016

The Holocaust told from the perspective of a teddy bear

A teddy bear accompanied Fred Lessing in his wanderings from one hiding place to another during World War II and became a symbol after being loaned to Yad Vashem. Now the subject of a children’s book, Lessing reveals how he was persuaded to let someone else tell his story. Fred’s teddy bear is not the […]

Lithuanian towns mark Holocaust massacres of Jews

Lithuanian president leads ceremony marking 1941 slaughter of Jewish community. JTA – Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė called the Holocaust a tragedy of all of Lithuanua during a commemoration ceremony at the site of 1941 massacre of Jewish residents in the town of Molėtai in eastern Lithuania. “Their memory is an uncompromising obligation for all Lithuanian […]

A Night to Honor Noah Klieger

International March of the Living and Israeli-Jewish Congress (IJC) are honored to have hosted a special evening to honor a remarkable man, Noah Klieger – a Holocaust Survivor, courageous fighter, journalist and educator. The event took place on 6th September 2016 (19:30pm) at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque and included an exclusive screening of the documentary ‘Boxing For […]

Gruesome discovery in Germany raises questions about Holocaust-era experiments

Investigation launched into discovery at German research institute of dozens of anatomical remains believe to be from victims of Nazis, according to Army Radio.   Amid recent construction efforts at a branch of a German research institute in Munich, dozens of anatomical parts were uncovered dating back to the WWII era, Army Radio reported Wednesday. […]

Raoul Wallenberg’s Journey From Grocery Salesman to Holocaust Hero

Ingrid Carlberg’s richly detailed ‘Raoul Wallenberg: The Biography’ presents fresh facts about the Swede who saved so many Jews, but is unable to answer the gnawing question surrounding his fate in Soviet custody. “Raoul Wallenberg: The Biography,” by Ingrid Carlberg, MacLehose Press, 640 pp., $29.99 Two great mysteries surround the life of famed Holocaust figure […]

Canadian team signs player who called Jews ‘devils’

On his twitter account, Khalif Mitchell also posted a link to a YouTube video calling the Holocaust ‘the greatest lie ever told’ A Canadian football team has signed a player who tweeted anti-Semitic messages even after being fined in 2015 for doing so. The Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League signed lineman Khalif Mitchell […]

Website launched to inform country’s Holocaust survivors of their rights

Initiative could benefit the tens of thousands living here in poverty.   A s the world’s last living Holocaust survivors reach the twilight of their lives, frequently alone and impoverished, an Israeli NGO is hoping that a website designed to inform them of their rights to aid and compensation will help lessen their burden. Noting that […]

Hungary blocks websites that deny the Holocaust

Court in Budapest orders temporary blocking of 20 websites that carry Holocaust denial material. A court in Budapest has ordered the temporary blocking of about 20 websites that carry Holocaust denial material, JTA reported on Wednesday. The websites in question sell the Hungarian edition of a book by a Swedish author that denies that the Nazis committed […]

Last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor donates $1M to US Holocaust museum

(JTA) — The last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg war crimes trials has donated $1 million to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington D.C. Benjamin Ferencz will donate the sum on an annual renewable basis, up to $10 million, to the museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, according to a statement by the museum. […]