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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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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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