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JEWELRY FOUND HIDDEN IN HOLOCAUST VICTIM’S MUG AT AUSCHWITZ M– USEUM
A spokesman for the Auschwitz Museum says a Polish-made golden ring and chain have been found hidden under the false base of an enameled mug that must have belonged to a victim of the Nazis’ death camp. Piotr Sawicki told The Associated Press on Friday that the find was revealed during conservation work for enamel […]
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Ridgefield High School Senior Takes a Life Changing Journey to March of the Living
As I glanced up at the dark, stormy sky, there was only one thought going through my mind. Why? Why me? Why was I one of the lucky ones? Why were my people such a hated people? These were my thoughts as I walked through the gates of Auschwitz. Then as we walked through the […]
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Teens Forever Changed by March of the Living
The 99 Broward County high school grade 11 and 12 students who returned May 16 from the 14-day March of the Living program met with their parents May 19 at the Posnack Jewish Community Center in Davie to discuss their feelings and observations of the MOTL program. The phrase “I am forever changed. I will […]
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Hermina Hirsch, 89, fulfills longtime dream at Rays-Tigers game
An 89-year-old Holocaust survivor has fulfilled her longtime wish to sing the United States national anthem at a Major League Baseball game. Hermina Hirsch sang Saturday at Comerica Park in Detroit before theTigers played Tampa Bay. Hermina Hirsch reportedly has been a Tigers fan since she moved to the Detroit area more than 60 years […]
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Never forget: Holocaust horrors collected at USC Shoah Foundation
More than 900 Holocaust testimonies recorded over four decades by the Jewish Family and Children Services Holocaust Center of San Francisco are now part of the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive, it was announced Monday. In a two-year partnership, the USC Shoah Foundation digitized, archived and catalogued Holocaust testimonies taken by JFCS in the Greater […]
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BJE LA MOTL 2016 Travel Blog
Day 1 – We arrived! LA Arrives en masse! The Los Angeles delegation of the March of the Living arrived in Warsaw, safe and sound. After 5 flights out of LAX, connecting flights out of Chicago and New York, our delegation of 257 students, staff and survivors arrive in Warsaw’s Chopin Airport within moments of […]
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At March of the Living, learning how to live
Sophie Wortsman. 16. Toronto. Student. Benji Zoller. 18. Dallas. Student. Sam Peltz. 83. Florida and New York. Survivor. Jacob Kamaras. 30. Houston. Journalist. We all shared the same experience on May 5 — the 28th annual March of the Living, a 1.86-mile walk from Auschwitz to Birkenau as a tribute to victims of the Holocaust. […]
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‘No statute of limitations on genocide,’ Nuremberg anniversary confab reminds
Why should the casual observer care about the seemingly obvious need to prosecute and convict Nazi war criminals, whether it be during the Nuremberg trials of the 1940s or similar proceedings in more recent years? “The Nuremberg trials only convicted the leaders and a relatively small number of people,” retired Harvard Law School professor Alan […]
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UJS bus on March of the Living 2016
UJS supported 25 students to join March of the Living UK along with 250 other participants just a few weeks ago. March of the Living UK takes participants on a journey through centuries of Polish Jewry in order to understand life before, during and after the Holocaust. Bus C (the student bus) was led by […]
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First national Holocaust museum slated to open in the Netherlands
Dutch actor and artist Jeroen Krabbe poses with two of his paintings at the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam. (Peter Dejong, The Associated Press) AMSTERDAM — More than 70 years after tens of thousands of Dutch Jews were deported and killed by the Nazis, the Netherlands is finally getting a national Holocaust museum. It will […]
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