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Cyprus unveils holocaust monument (PICTURES)
Cyprus and Israel’s defence ministers unveiled a monument on Wednesday, honouring children of Holocaust survivors whose passage to Israel went through the island more than half a century ago. Israeli minister Moshe Ya’alon arrived in the morning in what was a historic first official visit by an Israeli Minister of Defence to the Cyprus, as […]
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Oving Architecten shrouds concentration camp house in glass as a memorial to the holocaust
The former home of an SS commander at Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, the Netherlands, has been enclosed within a giant glass vitrine by Dutch studio Oving Architecten. Intended as a memorial to the second world war, the large glass box creates a vitrine-like enclosure around the clapboard residence of SS commander Albert Konrad Gemmeker. According to […]
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US Holocaust museum to collect items for time capsule
WASHINGTON – The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is seeking messages and personal artifacts from Holocaust survivors for a time capsule to be opened on the museum’s 50th anniversary in 2043. The capsule will be on display in the museum’s David and Fela Shapell Family Collections and Conservation Center in Bowie, Maryland, which is scheduled to […]
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University of Oklahoma Will Return Camille Pissarro Painting to Holocaust Survivor
Camille Pissarro, Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep (1886). Photo: Courtesy the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma. After a three-year legal dispute, the University of Oklahoma (OU) has agreed to return Camille Pissarro‘s 1886 painting La Bergère Rentrant des Moutons (Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep) to French Holocaust survivor Léone Meyer. The terms of the settlement […]
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The Last Train Before the War
There is a photograph of my father and grandfather, taken on Sunday, Aug. 27, 1939, at a spot overlooking the Rhine above the Lorelei Rock, where the chasm of the river tightens and the quickened flow makes a murmuring sound, which has mystical resonance for the Germans. My dad had emigrated to Canada in 1934. […]
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Holocaust Survivors Struggle To Prove Their Cases as Claims Conference Cracks Down
Seventy-eight-year-old Izrail Gelman received $70,000 in Holocaust restitution payments from the German government over nearly 20 years. Now, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which distributed the money, is demanding it all back. He has until March 10 to make the payment. “He has no way to pay,” said Alexander Gelman, Izrail’s brother. […]
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Anne Frank’s father Otto’s lost letters reveal Holocaust survivor’s ‘other Anne’
A worldwide quest to find the letters of Anne Frank’s father, Otto Frank, has revealed that an Australian woman became his unlikely confidante after he survived the Holocaust.Young people from all over the world who had been touched by his daughter’s plight wrote to Otto Frank after the publication of his daughter’s remarkable diary in […]
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Holocaust Survivor Magda Brown Shares Story of Loss, Hope and Faith
Photo 1: Magda Brown speaks to students at John F. Kennedy Middle School in Plainfield. Photo 2: Magda Brown posts for a photo. Photo 3: Brown answers questions from students. PLAINFIELD, IL — If you were to meet 88-year-old Magda Brown just walking down the street, her tragic past would be almost inconceivable. She’s warm, […]
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Torn from her family, Holocaust survivor spent her life making a new one
To Helen Handler, the most important thing was family. I think it’s the first thing she would have wanted me to write about her, even before I told you that she died on Tuesday at the age of 87. Family was that important to her. Helen Handler was just 15 years old when she stepped […]
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Austrian parliament nixes event honoring pro-Hamas, anti-Israel Jew who fled Nazis
The spokeswoman for the president of the Austrian parliament informed The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that an event slated to honor Hedy Epstein – an anti-Zionist Jew and defender of Hamas – has been canceled. “In consideration for the concerns against some of the participants, the Austrian Parliament has cancelled the event ‘In Grandmother’s Words…The […]
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