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Columbus resident recalls Holocaust horros
COLUMBUS – Fran Greenberg said she doesn’t remember much about her life before the age of 4. What is unfortunate, however, is that the memories she has of her life for the years that immediately followed are marred by sadness, depression, illness and loneliness. Greenberg was the featured speaker at the Ohio Governor’s 36th Annual […]
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Martin L. Mattei seventh grade students present projects on the Holocaust in reading classes
Editor’s note: This story has been updated with clarifications. HUGHESTOWN — For 12-year-old Justin Bryk, his latest school project seemed like a typical assignment until his research hit close to home. While learning about Anne Frank and the Holocaust in hisreading class, Bryk presented a series of paintings that were created from […]
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The Stolpersteine: Memory of Holocaust victims marks path along European streets
The Stolpersteine, or “Stumbling Stone” memorials – handmade plaques that memorialize the Jews who once lived in Juri’s neighborhood – are found in front of every other house on the tree-lined Guntzelstrasse, a main street in what was a heavily Jewish area of Berlin before World War II. Many Jewish intellectuals, including Albert Einstein, lived […]
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‘Why it took me 40 years to face my father’s memoir’: A Holocaust survivor’s daughter on the trauma that shaped her
Noemie Lopian has a clear recollection of the bookshelf in the living room of her childhood home in Munich: it was empty save for a solitary title on the middle shelf. Yet as a girl, she resisted any urge to read it because she knew that something terrible was documented within its pages. Spool forward […]
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Record attendance overwhelms organizers of Auschwitz bike ride
A record 150 cyclists or more are scheduled to participate in the third Holocaust commemorative Ride for the Living in Poland. Participants aged 16-81 from eight countries are scheduled to join the 55-mile trek from the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in southern Poland to the Jewish community center in Krakow that begins on Friday. The solidarity […]
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10,000 clips recall Holocaust’s children
With yardsticks and tape, Tatyanna Russell and her friends spent two months building a star and hanging 10,000 paper clips on it. It would be another kids craft project if not for the meaning behind it: the star represents the Jewish Star of David, and each paper clip stands for 150 children who died during […]
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Sherman tank makes way into Holocaust center
Two symbols of a war that rocked the world now sit in one room. A Sherman tank used by American troops to liberate death camps during World War II was unveiled Friday at the Holocaust Documentation & Education Center. The 30-ton tank will serve as one of the museum’s anchor exhibits, along with a Holocaust-era […]
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Holocaust survivors gather at Jerusalem Theater, salute Israel
Notwithstanding the raw deal so many of them have received in Israel, Holocaust survivors by and large are happy to have a country to call home, and hundreds from all over the nation, speaking myriad languages, gathered at the Jerusalem Theater this week in a salute to Israel. Some had been turned back by the […]
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UK rabbi meets family murdered in the Holocaust through cache of WWII letters
Inside a particularly large trunk left on the Jerusalem balcony of Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg’s deceased aunt’s apartment was another smaller case containing an off-white linen bag. In it lay a bundle of papers. The dates on the delicate pages jumped out at Wittenberg — 1937, 1938, 1947 — and their faint, inked German words immediately […]
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Amsterdam to Give Back $11m in Taxes Paid by Holocaust Survivors Upon Return
The Amsterdam municipality will donate 10 million euros ($11.3 million) to the city’s Jewish community to compensate for back taxes that Amsterdam’s Jews who survived the Holocaust were forced to pay on their return to the city. As reported by the DutchNews.nl website, the announcement of the donation, which is to go Jewish community projects, […]
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