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Bialik’s Button Mission
BIALIK College is on a mission to collect 600,000 buttons, searching all corners of the community, and the country, for those that have fallen off, been forgotten or are simply lying around. This is no ordinary sewing project, as the students have a very noble aim – to unite the community in collecting 1.5 million […]
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How to teach the Holocaust
“Names, Not Numbers” is a copyrighted curriculum that teaches Jewish middle-schoolers about the Holocaust with an emphasis on the oral testimony of survivors, which the children immortalize on film. Focusing on individuals rather than numbers also is the approach encouraged by the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center […]
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Beyond Anne Frank: The Dutch Tell Their Full Holocaust Story
AMSTERDAM — Anne Frank is only part of the story. The diary of the young Jewish girl, who came of age hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam, has long been the dominant narrative of the Netherlands’ experience during World War II. Hers is a story of inspiration and resistance that in many ways the Dutch […]
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MY VISIT TO AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU WITH PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU
On July 10, I walked with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau through the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau where, at age 15, I confronted death for the first but not for the last time. It all started three days earlier when Eli Rubenstein, the Canadian director of the March of the Living, asked me if […]
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Philip Bialowitz, Who Escaped a Nazi Death Camp and Testified in Court, Dies at 90
Philip Bialowitz, a Polish Jew who escaped Sobibor, a secret Nazi extermination camp, in the aftermath of a dramatic prisoner uprising and bore witness to the horrors of the Holocaust in a powerful memoir and in courtroom testimony, died on Aug. 6 in Delray Beach, Fla. He was 90. The cause was congestive heart failure, his son Joseph said. […]
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A Letter to my Daughter Kim Before She Embarks on the March of the Living
A Letter to My Daughter Kim before she embarks on the March of The Living… Dearest Kim, The March of the Living is an extraordinary, unforgettable experience. With thousands of Jewish people, from countries all around the world, you will share in a once in a lifetime experience when they march three kilometers from Auschwitz […]
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Grandson of Holocaust Survivor Wins Silver Medal for France at Rio Olympics
A French Olympian who is the grandson of a Holocaust survivor won a silver medal with his team on Monday in the men’s freestyle relay finals at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. The swimmer, Fabien Gilot, — who, as Tablet reported, sports a Hebrew tattoo that says, “Without them, I am nothing” — explained that the […]
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Florida Holocaust survivors back in Warsaw to perform in former ghetto
A musical duo of Holocaust survivors from Florida who have toured the United States returned to their native Poland to perform there for the first time, at an outdoor concert in Warsaw. Polish television and radio stations will be broadcasting their concert live to millions of people, according to From the Depths, an organization which […]
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Rescued violins bring back Holocaust memories
AFP — Tucking the violin beneath his chin, the instrument’s wood glistening under the packed auditorium’s spotlights, Guy Braunstein’s hand trembled from the weight of history. “I have done thousands of concerts, but I have never been as emotional and trembled the way I did when I took that violin from Auschwitz in my hand,” […]
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Wisconsin Researcher Talks About Major Holocaust Discovery
An international research team of geoscientists and geographers recently made a remarkable find in Lithuania. It’s a 100-foot tunnel, dug mostly by hand at night by Jewish prisoners who were anticipating execution during the Holocaust 72 years ago. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire geography professor Harry Jol and four of his students used ground penetrating radar […]
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