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San Diego H.S. seniors share reactions to March of Living
SAN DIEGO — Two San Diego teens who participated in the March of the Living earlier this year–in which a visit to the German Nazi concentration camps in Poland is followed by a trip to Israel — reflected on the first of these experiences in these articles below. Questions about the March of the Living […]
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Holocaust Survivor Finds Peace in Art
Eva Nathanson doesn’t feel the same guilt her parents did for having been spared an anonymous death at the hands of Nazis, when so many others perished. Instead, she feels a compulsion to never spend a moment wasting time and to treat every minute of life as the miracle it is. Sitting in her kitchen, […]
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Auschwitz guard jailed for five years in Holocaust murder trial
A 94-year-old former Auschwitz death camp guard has been convicted of being an accessory to the murder of 170,000 people at the end of a four-month trial – which is likely to be the last of its kind. Reinhold Hanning was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison for his role in facilitating the […]
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Michigan requires public schools to teach about Holocaust
The Holocaust during World War II and the 1915 to 1920 massacre of Armenians must be taught in Michigan public schools under a law signed by Governor Rick Snyder on Tuesday. The new law recommends a combined six hours of genocide lessons be taught at some point between grades 8-12, and requires Snyder to make […]
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Comparing Israel to Nazis Is anti-Semitic, Says International Body
An intergovernmental body devoted to commemorating the Holocaust adopted a definition of anti-Semitism that includes some hate speech against Israel. The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, or IHRA, adopted the definition on May 26, according to a statement posted earlier this week on its website. The organization was launched in 1998 and has 31member states, all of them Western […]
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U.S. Holocaust Museum gets a treasured Auschwitz manuscript by Primo Levi
Manuela Paul had the precious documents in a plastic folder, inside an artist’s satchel, inside a Whole Foods shopping bag, which she kept at her side the entire bus ride from New York to Washington. The package in her custody was a rare 1946 draft of one of the most revered books to come out […]
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A new song created by March of the Living Hungary, featuring Moran Magal and Tsahi Halevi.
A new song created by March of the Living Hungary, featuring Moran Magal and Tsahi Halevi. Music written by Ferenc Fegya Jávori. Verse by Péter Sziámi Müller [HEBREW VERSION] [ENGLISH VERSION]
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After almost half a century, thousands of personal items of the victims of Auschwitz, are returning to the Memorial
More than 16 thousand personal items belonging to the victims of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, originating from archaeological works carried out in the area of gas chamber and crematorium III in 1967, returned to the Memorial after many months of searching. The objects found during the works are not only a […]
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This Day In Jewish History 1940: Auschwitz Gets Its First Big Shipment of Prisoners
On June 14, 1940, the Auschwitz concentration camp received its first large shipment of prisoners – 728 political detainees transferred from both Dachau, in Germany, and a Nazi prison in Tarnow, in occupied Poland. Twenty of them are believed to have been Jews, with the majority Roman Catholics, resistance members and others. These early arrivals […]
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US House passes measure calling on Germany to increase Holocaust
The U.S. House of Representatives has unanimously passed a resolution calling on Germany to increase restitution support for Holocaust survivors. The resolution, sponsored by U.S. Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) and Ted Deutch (D-Fla.), will “fulfill its moral responsibility to Holocaust survivors and urgently provide the financial resources necessary to ensure that Survivors live in dignity and […]
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