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2016 JERUSALEM MARCH LIVE STREAM
JERUSALEM MARCH OF THE LIVING LIVE STREAM – MAY 12, 2016
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Holocaust survivors put human face on dark chapter in history
Holocaust survivor Max Epstein was a teenager when his father and most of his extended family perished in the Lodz Ghetto of Poland. Epstein, who now lives in Highland Park, grew up as an only child in a prosperous Polish home. His father was a lumber businessman from a long line of lumber merchants. “By […]
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Teaching the Holocaust can change students’ views, speaker at UND says
At some point in nearly everyone’s lives, there’s a “black swan” that comes along and shatters their worldview, just as it did when Europeans at one point assumed all swans were white. For Doyle Stevick, that “black swan” was a student of his who seemed lost. The student recently had failed his class and didn’t […]
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Harrowing story of the Holocaust survivors still fighting for a dignified life 75 years on
Children behind a barbed wire fence at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz The sun is going down when they appear, small figures sidling between the closing stalls in the market place where the traders are dumping the day’s unsold wares. As piles of cabbage and potatoes mount on the pavement, they rifle through, their […]
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Maccabi GB does March of the Living 2016: A participant’s Blog
As the second day of the trip comes to an end [we landed in Poland on Sunday 1st May] we have been up since 6am and are only now going to bed (it’s currently 23:20). It’s been a long, emotional day. We visited a small town which, before the war, hosted many Jews – over […]
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The book that kept them together – despite the Holocaust
As a Dutch Jewish couple hiding separately from the Nazis, Emmanuel Joels and Hetty van Son were literally drawn together by a comic book of Emmanuel’s romantic invention. After narrowly avoiding deportation to Auschwitz thanks to a policeman’s tip, the young couple spent 2 1/2 years living less than a mile apart, each in the […]
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Romania to Speed Up Property Restitution Claims of Holocaust Survivors
REUTERS – Romania is to fast-track property restitution claims from Holocaust survivors under an amended law that is expected to be passed by parliament next week, legislators said on Tuesday. Romania was an ally of Nazi Germany during World War Two until it changed sides in August 1944, and much of the property seized during […]
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Humor and the Holocaust? Documentary explores the boundaries of comedy and tragedy
Is it inappropriate to joke about the Holocaust? Is it acceptable to make fun of slavery? Can we find humor in topics like cancer and AIDS? Is it too soon to crack wise about 9/11? These are some of the questions raised by “The Last Laugh,” director Ferne Pearlstein’s thoughtful, provocative, and yes, funny documentary […]
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