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From Auschwitz To Treblinka: ‘Never Again’ Is The Unmistakable Lesson Of Holocaust
Arbeit Macht Frei! Passing through the arch bearing the inscription meaning “Work Will Set You Free”, one is engulfed with diverse thoughts and emotions. The sea of diverse and youthful faces at the main entrance might give the impression that one was about to enter a monument of past glory. But the remains of the […]
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Ellen Tarlow, Holocaust survivor and educator
Ellen Meinberg Tarlow, 88, formerly of Glenside, a Holocaust survivor who narrowly escaped Germany for America and later told of her family’s ordeal at the hands of the Nazis, died Sunday, Aug. 21, of heart failure at the Quadrangle in Haverford. Mrs. Tarlow lived through Kristallnacht – Nov. 9 and 10, 1938 – when, as […]
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HOW JUDITH LEIBER SURVIVED THE HOLOCAUST TO BECOME A CELERBITY HANDBAG ICON
At 95, Judith Leiber carefully walks down an aisle of her palladian-style Hamptons museum surrounded by 1,500 handbags, most of them bedazzled with thousands of crystals. Her eyes graze two small metal clutches—one shaped like an eggplant and the other, an asparagus. “I just thought it was a good idea to try to make something strange we’d […]
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WAVING THE FLAG AT AUSCHWITZ IS NOT AN ‘EXERCISE IN CHAUVINISM’
In his recent column in The Canadian Jewish News (There’s More to Polish Jewry than the Holocaust,) Rabbi Dow Marmur suggests that the March of the Living fosters “disdain for Poles and Poland…ignores most of Polish-Jewish history”, and promotes the “indiscriminate loathing of another people.” Rabbi Marmur also suggests that girls and boys wrapped in Israeli flags […]
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Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis, 80, Founder of Hineni Outreach Organization
Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis—the founder of the Hineni Heritage Center, and an international inspirational speaker and mentor—passed away on Aug. 23 in New York. She was 80 years old. She was born in 1936 in Szeged, Hungary, where her father, Rabbi Avroham Halevi Jungreis, was a rabbi. The family was among the passengers of the “Kastner train,” a […]
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This Day in Jewish History // 1933: Jews Make a Travel Agreement With Nazi Germany
Fearing Jewish-led boycotts, Germany signed the Transfer Agreement, letting 60,000 beleaguered German Jews to reach Palestine, with their money no less. August 25, 1933, is the date of the signing of the Transfer Agreement, which enabled 60,000 German Jews to leave for Palestine while taking some of their money with them. It is a deal […]
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Holocaust hero was executed on Stalin’s orders, KGB chief’s diary says
Newly published diaries written by the first head of the KGB clearly state that Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews in the Holocaust, was executed in a Soviet prison, the New York Times reported on Saturday – providing the first solid evidence about the Swede’s mysterious 1945 disappearance. Wallenberg was […]
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Yad Vashem Officials Slam Polish Government: ‘New Bill Is Very Close to Holocaust Denial’
Israeli research institute says effort to forbid claims that Poles collaborated during Holocaust ‘makes Poland part of the anti-liberal movement picking up speed worldwide.’ Yad Vashem officials have harshly criticized the Polish bill that forbids claiming that Poles collaborated during the Holocaust and warned that its approval in parliament would be considered Holocaust denial and […]
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AZRIELI FOUNDATION BOOSTS FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
Holocaust survivors who are in financial distress are getting a $457,500 boost thanks to an allocation from the Azrieli Foundation. The funds will go to four Canadian organizations that provide services to an estimated 3,000 elderly survivors in communities across the country. Many are in dire financial straits and find it difficult to afford the […]
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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.
Last year, on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, New York City approved its 2016 fiscal year budget, which, for the very first time, included a $1.5-million-dollar allocation to assist Holocaust survivors living in poverty. The landmark decision to pass the New York City Council Survivor Initiative was a result of long term […]
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