• Imre Kertesz, Nobel Laureate Who Survived Holocaust, Dies at 86

    Imre Kertesz, a Nobel laureate who was acclaimed for his semi-autobiographical novels on surviving the Holocaust and its aftermath, died on Thursday at his home in Budapest. He was 86. His death was confirmed by Krisztian Nyary, the head of Magveto Publishing, which publishes Mr. Kertesz’s works in his native Hungary. Mr. Nyary said Mr. […]

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  • Personal experiences, lessons of Holocaust focus of discussion

    In 1905, a Spanish philosopher wrote words that have been repeated often during the past 111 years: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Other philosophers and world leaders have borrowed George Santayana’s thought through the years, but the notion is the same: Learn from past atrocities and make sure they […]

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  • 48 years since expulsion of Poland’s Jews

    By Daniel Schatz This month marks the 48th anniversary of the state-sponsored anti-Semitic campaign of March 1968 in communist Poland. The last remaining survivors of the Holocaust – in a country that, prior to the war, had more than three million Jewish citizens – were declared to be “foreigners,” “Zionists,” “cosmopolitans” and the ultimate enemies […]

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  • Bulgaria Marks Anniversary of Prevention of Deportation of Bulgarian Jews to Holocaust Death Camps

    Senior politicians, members of the Bulgarian Jewish community and diplomats took part in ceremonies on March 10 2016 commemorating the country’s 1943 prevention of the deportation of Bulgarian Jews to Nazi death camps and honouring the memory of the more than six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. At ceremonies in Sofia, participants paid to […]

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  • New voices add to history of Holocaust

    A LOT has been written about the horrors of Auschwitz and the suffering of its victims. Yet in the eyes of Israeli historian Gideon Greif, the body of literature on Auschwitz cannot be considered complete without a reference to the Jews who worked in that factory of death. His research on Auschwitz, spanning 40 years, […]

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  • Survivor tells of life as a child during Holocaust

    Holocaust survivor Alex Buckman shared traumatic stories from his childhood during a presentation for students Tuesday at South Delta Secondary. Buckman, originally from Brussels, was born Oct. 31, 1939. Ten months later the Nazis invaded Belgium. “Then everything changed for my family,” he said. He explained how, for his protection, he was placed with different […]

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  • Filmmaker Atom Egoyan’s Remember Captures Rage of Holocaust Victims

    The Holocaust film Remember is set in the present. The thriller contains no flashbacks. It takes place entirely in North America. And yet Remember is also one of the most powerful and unique Nazi revenge films to come around in a long time. At the movie’s center are two Holocaust survivors Max (Martin Landau) and Zev […]

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  • Henry Winkler’s Symbol Of Holocaust Survival Lives On In Hollywood

    Henry Winkler, the Jewish actor best known as tough-talking Arthur Fonzarelli — aka, “The Fonz” — on the 1970s-80s TV show “Happy Days,” is earning a new reputation. As a protector of a unique Holocaust legacy. Now 70 and a graying grandfather, the son of refugees from Nazi Germany, he keeps in his Hollywood home […]

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  • Israeli Cycle Team to Honor Italian Tour De France Champ Turned Holocaust Hero

    Israel’s only professional cycling team will pay homage to two-time Tour de France champion Gino Bartali, riding the route that he secretly traveled to help Jews escape Nazi rule in Italy. Bartali, who passed away in 2000, rode as a courier to help the Jewish resistance against the Nazis. He is believed to have helped […]

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  • ‘Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females’

    Tribeca artist Linda Stein creates big, heroic tapestries made of scavenged black leather, elaborate brass buckles, historic artifacts, news articles etched into fabric, and metallic zippers that rip across her work like sewn-up wounds. It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the dark, discarded, and resurrected materials, but there’s a more powerful component woven into these […]

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