• U.S. Holocaust museum urges world leaders to press Iran on Holocaust denial

    WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum urged world leaders to press Iran’s leadership on its Holocaust denial during the U.N. General Assembly. “We want to make sure that the upcoming discussion at the United Nations is informed by facts about official Iranian efforts to promote racism and extremism

  • Israeli war hero orphaned in Holocaust remembered in Russia

    KAZAN, Russia (JTA) — Russia’s chief rabbi and several Israel Defense Forces generals commemorated a late war hero in a city he passed through while fleeing Europe during the Holocaust. Avigdor Ben-Gal, better known as Yanush, died in February in Israel, a country he reached in 1943 at the age

  • Holocaust denial fliers circulate on Australian campuses

    Material linking to conspiracy theory website asserts that the field of Holocaust studies is ‘replete with nonsense’   A nti-Semitic pamphlets claiming that the Holocaust is a hoax have been distributed at several Australian universities The leaflets turned up in Monash University, the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University,

  • German Teachers Union Calls For Total Boycott Of Israel

    TEL AVIV – Israel’s embassy in Berlin lambasted the city of Oldenburg teachers union over a call to completely boycott the Jewish state in the first such incident since the Holocaust, the Jerusalem Post reported. The damning two-page article was published in the September magazine of the Education and Science Workers’ Union (GEW). The

  • The Holocaust told from the perspective of a teddy bear

    A teddy bear accompanied Fred Lessing in his wanderings from one hiding place to another during World War II and became a symbol after being loaned to Yad Vashem. Now the subject of a children’s book, Lessing reveals how he was persuaded to let someone else tell his story. Fred’s

  • Lithuanian towns mark Holocaust massacres of Jews

    Lithuanian president leads ceremony marking 1941 slaughter of Jewish community. JTA – Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė called the Holocaust a tragedy of all of Lithuanua during a commemoration ceremony at the site of 1941 massacre of Jewish residents in the town of Molėtai in eastern Lithuania. “Their memory is an

  • A Night to Honor Noah Klieger

    International March of the Living and Israeli-Jewish Congress (IJC) are honored to have hosted a special evening to honor a remarkable man, Noah Klieger – a Holocaust Survivor, courageous fighter, journalist and educator. The event took place on 6th September 2016 (19:30pm) at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque and included an exclusive screening

  • Gruesome discovery in Germany raises questions about Holocaust-era experiments

    Investigation launched into discovery at German research institute of dozens of anatomical remains believe to be from victims of Nazis, according to Army Radio.   Amid recent construction efforts at a branch of a German research institute in Munich, dozens of anatomical parts were uncovered dating back to the WWII

  • Raoul Wallenberg’s Journey From Grocery Salesman to Holocaust Hero

    Ingrid Carlberg’s richly detailed ‘Raoul Wallenberg: The Biography’ presents fresh facts about the Swede who saved so many Jews, but is unable to answer the gnawing question surrounding his fate in Soviet custody. “Raoul Wallenberg: The Biography,” by Ingrid Carlberg, MacLehose Press, 640 pp., $29.99 Two great mysteries surround the