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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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Hoenlein evokes Holocaust in UN address on Rwanda genocide
The head of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organization evoked the Holocaust and Passover at a UN ceremony marking the 22nd anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman and CEO of the umbrella group, spoke Monday in General Assembly Hall in New York on the International Day of Reflection […]
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Federal grants to assist Holocaust survivors draw praise, concern
In the past month, it was announced by the U.S. federal government that $2.8 million in federal grants has been released to 23 Jewish social-service agencies around the country to help caregivers and medical professionals give support to aging Holocaust survivors. Locally, the Jewish social-service agencies involved include the Ferd & Gladys Alpert Jewish Family […]
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The Human Spirit: Death in the forests
You discover that your grandfather had a role, even a relatively small one, in the mass murder of Jews. You’re a public figure, a journalist, your country’s best-selling author, a mother of two. What do you do? If you are Ruta Vanagaite, you engage in what we Jews call tshuva, a process best translated as […]
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