Joining hands and hearts to keep Holocaust memory alive, fighting hatred and genocide
Joining hands and hearts to keep Holocaust memory alive, fighting hatred and genocide
(JTA) — The main representative body of Austrian Jewry organized the vaccination of Holocaust survivors in Vienna on Wednesday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In the project by the Jewish Community of Vienna on Jan. 27, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, multiple survivors were brought from across Austria and Slovakia to Continue Reading »
(JTA) — The city of Warsaw has accused an Israeli Holocaust museum of being involved in the smuggling out of Poland of Jewish prayer artifacts that the museum said were found inside an old bunker in the Polish capital. The Shem Olam museum near Hadera announced this week that it had obtained 10 sets of tefillin, a Continue Reading »
On Saturday, November 16, 1940, the Germans closed the Warsaw ghetto. In the area of 307 ha in the center of the city, they initially imprisoned over 350,000 people. Jews. But they took their freedom step by step from the beginning of the occupation. “The morning of November 16 was a great shock for everyone. It turned out that Continue Reading »
As we commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day this week, watch these award-winning films from the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Two-time Academy Award-winning Moriah Films that are streaming now: Against The Tide Narrated by Dustin Hoffman A compelling film that documents what happened in the US during the Holocaust, and how a young activist, Peter Bergson, Continue Reading »
When Alfred Wetzler and Rudolf Vrba escaped Auschwitz in 1944, they didn’t just save themselves. The two men, both Slovak Jews, used data secretly compiled during their time as sonderkommandos in Auschwitz to write the eponymous Wetzler-Vrba report, which provided one of the first eyewitness accounts of the death camp’s infamous gas chambers. Publicized by the BBC Continue Reading »
(JTA) — Two well-known Polish Holocaust historians are on trial for alleged defamation over their claim that late mayor of a town near Warsaw who saved one Jewish woman was involved in the murder of 22 other Jews. Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking were sued last year in civil court by a niece of the Continue Reading »
(JTA) — The U.S. Army is removing an officer who made a Holocaust joke last year on TikTok. Nathan Freihofer, a second lieutenant, has millions of followers on TikTok, the video social media platform. In August, Freihofer posted a joke about the Holocaust, then told his followers, “If you get offended, get the f*** out Continue Reading »
(JTA) — For a movie about the Holocaust, the Belarussian film “Persian Lessons” has some comic potential. Set in a concentration camp somewhere in Western Europe, it involves a Jewish inmate who survives by giving Farsi lessons to a Nazi officer who dreams about opening a restaurant in Tehran. One problem: The inmate doesn’t speak Farsi. Continue Reading »
(JTA) — As one of the youngest Holocaust survivors, Eva Clarke has spent years telling the story of how her mother, weighing just 68 pounds, gave birth to her inside a concentration camp just a month before it was liberated. But this spring, as COVID-19 shut down public life, Clarke’s visits to schools and community centers in Continue Reading »
In ‘Ghost Citizens,’ Polish academic Lukasz Krzyzanowski delves into postwar Radom, where Jews found new residents living in their stolen homes, and little empathy from the public. When the slim percentage of Polish Jewry that survived the Holocaust returned home from the ghettos and death camps, they were not readily accepted back into the folds Continue Reading »
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