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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Why They March
Next month, David Machlis of Englewood once again will join March of the Living. The march is an annual educational program that brings people — most of them teenagers — from all over the world to Poland and Israel. There, they study the history of the Holocaust and examine the roots of prejudice, intolerance, and […]
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Christians Join Thousands in Hungary’s March of the Living
Tens of thousands took part Sunday in the “March of the Living,” as well as Hungary’s largest anti-racist rally of the year. March of the Living, now in its 14th year, is held annually to commemorate the deportation of Hungarian Jewry to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The ghettoization of the Hungarian Jews started on April […]
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Hungary buries remains of Holocaust victims found in Danube
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Human remains found in 2011, including many believed to be of Jews shot on the banks of the Danube River near the end of World War II, were buried Friday in a Jewish cemetery in Budapest. Two wooden caskets containing hundreds of bone fragments were laid to rest according to Jewish customs […]
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April 20: Hillel hosts historian
7:57 a.m., April 15, 2016–University of Delaware Hillel will bring world-renowned professor, historian and author Deborah Lipstadt to campus for its annual Holocaust Education Week. Lipstadt will present a lecture at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 20, in Loudis Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building. The event is free and open to the […]
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A History of the Holocaust for the Tucson Community
“When you walk in, you walk in something that is very much like a cattle car door,” said Samuel Cohon, Senior Rabbi at Temple Emanu-El, as he described the experience of visiting the newly expanded Holocaust History Center. To enter the exhibit, visitors must walk through a barn-sized wooden door framed by stripped steel rods. […]
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