How Much Did Small-town America Know About the Holocaust?

The same week the Dachau concentration camp opened, Maine’s Bangor Daily News also had some good tidings for its readers. “Mistreatment of Jewish Race in Germany Ends” was the headline of a story that ran on its front page in March 1933. Not all coverage of events leading up to the Holocaust was as misguided, […]

Survivors project to save Holocaust stories

As years pass, first-hand accounts of Holocaust survivors are disappearing. An initiative at Carleton University hopes to preserve the oral histories of Ottawa-area survivors and is looking to crowd-fund the $7,500 it needs to get the cameras rolling. Bruce Deachman reports. Judy Young-Drache was only a year old in the summer of 1944 when her […]

Interfaith march to remember Holocaust

According to Jill Rose — co-chair of the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County — the March of Remembrance is a unique opportunity for the entire community — Jewish and non-Jewish — to come together to remember the atrocities of the Holocaust. Rose said in a recent Federation […]

Keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive

“When you listen to a witness, you become a witness … please heal the world.” The eloquent plea of Holocaust survivor Judy Weissenberg Cohen perhaps best underpins and represents a new work, Witness: Passing the Torch of Holocaust Memory to New Generations. This book contains striking images and reflections from Holocaust survivors and students (many […]

2016 March of the Living Hungary

Award Winning Film “Never Forget: A March of the Living Story” to be Released on Yom Hashoah

Award winning Producer, Anthony Salamon and Award winning Director, Adam Dostalek will bring their socially significant short film, Never Forget: A March of the Living Story to the public this Yom Hashoah. With Yom Hashoah (Holocaust remembrance day) 2016 fast approaching, and world events bringing issues of tolerance and community to the forefront of the […]

As Holocaust Becomes More Distant, Survivors’ Needs Intensify

The German government is negotiating with Jewish representatives to ensure that the thousands of poorest and weakest Holocaust survivors worldwide receive the intensive care they need to live out their final years at home. The German Finance Ministry and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany continue to hold regular talks but the effort […]

Poster on Uni Campus Claims Jews Invented Holocaust for Financial Gain

Students at the University of Edinburgh have condemned a poster found on campus which claims that the Holocaust was a Jewish invention designed for financial gain. The University has opened an investigation into who placed the poster there. The poster quotes the renowned Israel hater Norman Finkelstein, whose own parents survived the Auschwitz and Lublin/Majdanek […]

At special Seder, Holocaust survivors entrust stories of endurance to the young [photos]

In the run up to the Passover holiday, Jewish Family and Children’s Services designed a dinner to help the next generation learn about the Holocaust from those who survived it. Fifteen-year-old Olivia Gusdorff didn’t mind the abridged Haggadah, or that grape juice substituted for wine — she was there for the company. For her, the […]

Greece unveils monument to lawmakers killed in Holocaust

The Greek Parliament has erected a monument to eight Greek Jewish lawmakers who were killed by the Nazis during the Second World War. The white marble tablet engraved with the eight names was unveiled on Wednesday by Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament Nikos Voutsis. Six of the parliament members were among the tens of thousands […]