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A Holocaust Survivor’s Tribute to Elie Wiesel
This week I mourn the death of Elie Wiesel, who was a role model of mine. Wiesel’s story is also my story. We were born within a few months of each other in 1928, we grew up in towns about 60 miles apart, and in the spring of 1944 we were both deported to Auschwitz. […]
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Claims Conference Negotiates Major Expansion in Homecare for Holocaust Survivors
The Claims Conference has negotiated an agreement with the government of Germany securing substantial increases in funding for homecare for poor Holocaust survivors in need of care worldwide over the next three years. The agreement, subject to approval by the German Parliament, provides for approximately $500 million in additional funding over previous levels for […]
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Victims tell their Holocaust stories through exhibit
From 1941 to 1944, the Nazis rounded up Jews and Roma in villages across the countries of the former Soviet Union and systematically killed them in mass shootings, a genocide that began before the infamous gassings at extermination camps. During that period, the Nazis wiped out nearly every Jew in the region — in all, […]
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80 Years After Hitler’s Berlin Summer Olympics: Athletes Murdered In The Holocaust Are Not Forgotten
In Berlin, fans rushing to soccer matches at the Olympic Stadium, where African-American sprinter Jesse Owens famously won four gold medals in the 1936 Summer Games, could easily miss some stone monuments along a perimeter fence that honor Germany’s early sports heroes. But these fans thus miss one pillar—dedicated to the first modern Olympics, held […]
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‘March of the Living’ documents kinship between teens, survivors
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Jessica Sanders went to Brazil to document Carnival and samba music. After unexpected detours to Auschwitz and Israel, however, she ended up making a movie about something much more serious: an event that exemplifies survival and affirmation. All told, Sanders’ 76-minute documentary, “March of the Living” — released on video on demand on […]
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Polish Foreign Minister: There’s more to us than the Holocaust
Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski arrived in Israel for an official visit on Tuesday. While the continent at large is in the midst of several crises, Waszczykowski’s young conservative government has drawn internal criticism by taking several steps seen as attempts to seize control of the country’s legal system and media. Tens of thousands took […]
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Publishing house to donate proceeds from ‘Mein Kampf’ sales to Holocaust survivors
(CNN) – Its title is known the world over, and its hateful contents have made it both a best-seller and arguably the most scorned book in history. Now, a Boston-based publisher is making sure Adolf Hitler’s infamous manifesto “Mein Kampf” actually does some good in the world. According to the Boston Globe, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has […]
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Lucky Star
My mother kept the yellow star she had to wear during the war. She never showed it to me. It must have been in the back of a drawer in a dusty envelope. At some point in the mid 70’s she donated it to the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford (JHSGH). What she remembers […]
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In Elie Wiesel’s Work, Many Found Words That Seared, and Soared
Elie Wiesel was mourned Saturday by politicians, artists and others who were touched by his emotionally searing writing about the Holocaust and the questions he raised about the nature of humanity and God. Mr. Wiesel came to prominence in 1960 with the English translation of “Night,” a memoir chronicling the brutalities and degradations of life […]
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Educators visit Polin Museum to redevelop curricula for MOTL students
A group of North American March of the Living leaders recently spent a week in Warsaw participating in an intense joint workshop with educators from the Polin Museum to redevelop curricula for March of the Living students. The International March of the Living is looking forward to continuing its fruitful partnership with the Polin Museum […]
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