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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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Lillian Judd, 92, dedicated her life to recalling the Holocaust
Lillian Judd endured the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp, where her father, mother and two sisters were killed and she was beaten nearly to death. But decades later, in the comfort of her homes in California, she set aside anger and dedicated her life to recalling the Holocaust and espousing kindness. “She was one […]
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Survivor joins youth on ‘March’ to Shoa sites
Until this May, Holocaust survivor Michael Zeiger of Randolph had never visited a concentration camp. After some prodding, he agreed to accompany 40 high school students from the New Jersey/New York area on the 2016March of the Living. From May 2 to 14, starting in Poland, they (and 12,000 other young people from 40 countries […]
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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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