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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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Vandals deface Holocaust monuments in Poland and Italy
Newly-erected Holocaust monuments in Poland and Italy were vandalized by individuals who wrote on them far-right and far-left slogans, respectively. The Polish monument, which was unveiled in 2014 in the country’s northeast, was hit for the second time in a little over a year by unidentified culprits who broke off part of its surface and […]
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Green Journey – Cycling on the Trails of the Living
Teens on the March of the Living participated in Masa Yarok (Green Journey), an initiative of the KKL-JNF Education Division that had 800 teens cycling around Israel Green Journey (Masa Yarok) 2016, a project initiated and led by the International Department of the KKL-JNF Education and Youth Division, concluded on May 13. About 800 Jewish […]
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Japanese Diplomat’s Act of Mercy Is Enduring Legacy for Holocaust Descendants
Amid preparations for the end of a semester at Northwestern University – where Arielle Salomon is pursuing a master’s degree in business administration – the 28-year-old is taking time out of her busy schedule to pause and appreciate what she says has been her fortunate life. “Everyone has their story about why they are here, […]
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An 88-Yr Old Holocaust Survivor Recalls Hearing — “We Are Americans and You are All Free.”
“We are Americans, and all of you are free.” That phrase is etched in 88-year-old Henry Greenbaum’s memory as part of the best day of his life. It was told to him by an American soldier during World War II when he was 17, weighed 75 pounds and had lived through five hellish years as […]
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‘Living Room Memories’ allows Holocaust survivors to tell their stories at home
Earlier this week a crowd gathered in a chic apartment up four flights of stairs on Ben Yehuda street in Tel Aviv. The hosts laid drinks and snacks out on a table as the sun set over the Mediterranean behind them. The crowd of 37 packed into the living room to hear the testimony of […]
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