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Esther Yaron speaks at the old train station in Thessaloniki, Greece, at an event marking 80 years since the deportation of the city’s Jews, March 19, 2023. Credit: Courtesy.

From Macedonia to Pardes Hanna

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It was 1943 in German-occupied Greece. The little girl with the curly blonde hair at the church on the outskirts of Athens was at the center of the Nazis’ attention. Reminded of their children back...
An image of Jewish life at the start of World War II and the Holocaust. Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Holocaust survivors asked to record testimony with their families

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Some 100 Holocaust survivors and their families are participating in a new campaign of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) called “Our Holocaust Story: Pledge to Remember.” Seeing survivors with their family...
Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana (center) celebrates Mimouna at the Knesset Plaza in Jerusalem, April 12, 2023. Credit: Knesset.

Mimouna celebrated at Knesset for the first time

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The Knesset on Wednesday hosted its first-ever Mimouna celebration, welcoming hundreds of guests in a traditional Moroccan tent erected in the front plaza. The festive custom, held the day after Passover, was brought to Israel...

San Diego-Based Holocaust Survivor, 93, Returns to Auschwitz on Exclusive Mission

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“What kept me going was my belief in G-d and the hope to be able to be reunited with my family,” said Ben Midler as he recalls his harrowing experience as a child at...
The rail leading to the former Auschwitz II (Birkenau) concentration camp in Poland. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Yad Vashem calls for historical accuracy in Poland youth trips

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Yad Vashem welcomed the renewal on Monday of Israeli youth trips to Poland for Holocaust education, while at the same time stressing the need to maintain “complete historical accuracy” over the European country’s mixed...

A Survivors’ Haggadah

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During the first Passover after liberation, considerable numbers of the she’erith hapletah (the surviving remnant) came to the Munich area to celebrate in Sedarim in large and small Jewish Displaced Persons (DPs) camps, and...
Zachary Mazur, a senior historian at the Warsaw-based POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Photo by Michał Wilczewski, Northwestern University.

Misconceptions about Warsaw Ghetto Uprising abound, says historian Zachary Mazur

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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was not the only example of armed Jewish resistance against the Nazis during the Holocaust. A very small percentage of ghetto prisoners fought, and the revolt occurred late in the...
Haggadah from Fez, Morocco, 20th century. Credit: National Library of Israel.

National Library of Israel expands Sephardic heritage, Spanish-language offerings

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The National Library of Israel (NLI) announced the online availability of its Sephardic Heritage and Spanish-language resources. In time for Passover, these resources include a large selection of Haggadot in the Sephardic tradition, available...

‘His Only Son,’ Movie about Abraham and Isaac, Opens March 31

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On March 31, in theatres around the country, His Only Son, a Christian movie by David Helling depicting the binding of Isaac, will open.  Except for some Christian references at the beginning and end of...
Rehearsal for the 74th-anniversary Israel Independence Day (Yom Ha'azmaut) ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, May 2, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

New website lists events and resources celebrating Israel’s 75th year

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The new website “Celebrating Israel at 75” is a resource providing information about communal celebrations of Israel’s 75th anniversary in the United States. The site also features information about the founding of Israel, as well as graphics...