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Martin L. Mattei seventh grade students present projects on the Holocaust in reading classes
David Stoshick, 13, built a model of Sobibor, a Nazi extermination camp built in occupied Poland during World…
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‘Why it took me 40 years to face my father’s memoir’: A Holocaust survivor’s daughter on the trauma that shaped her
‘For years and years, I couldn’t bear to look at it. I didn’t have the emotional strength to face…
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Record attendance overwhelms organizers of Auschwitz bike ride
A record 150 cyclists or more are scheduled to participate in the third Holocaust commemorative Ride for the Living in Poland. Participants aged 16-81 from eight countries are scheduled to…
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Sherman tank makes way into Holocaust center
Holocaust survivor Josef Scher, 95, stands next to a Sherman…
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UK rabbi meets family murdered in the Holocaust through cache of WWII letters
Inside a particularly large trunk left on the Jerusalem balcony of Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg’s deceased aunt’s apartment was another smaller case containing an…
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Amsterdam to Give Back $11m in Taxes Paid by Holocaust Survivors Upon Return
The Amsterdam municipality will donate 10 million euros ($11.3 million) to the city’s Jewish community to compensate for back taxes that Amsterdam’s Jews…
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Vandals deface Holocaust monuments in Poland and Italy
Newly-erected Holocaust monuments in Poland and Italy were vandalized by individuals who wrote on them far-right and far-left slogans, respectively. The…
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