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A view of an virtual session between genocide survivors and participants with the United Kingdom’s National Holocaust Centre and Museum. Source: United Kingdom’s National Holocaust Centre and Museum via Facebook.

Online project in Britain sets up learning between students and Holocaust survivors

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The United Kingdom’s National Holocaust Centre and Museum has launched an online program that allows schoolchildren at home during the coronavirus pandemic to ask questions to Holocaust survivors. Connecting the survivors, many of whom are...

May 5, 475: The Talmud, completed

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Rabbi Ravina ben Huna, known as Ravina II, head of the Jewish academy at Sura, a key center of learning in Babylonia, is said to have died on this date in 475. Tradition holds...

May 4, 1947: Prison Break

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The Irgun used trucks, British uniforms, and a large bomb to break out 28 Jewish prisoners from the British prison in Acre (Acco) on this date in 1947. Four captured Irgun “terrorists” had been...

APRIL 29, 1914: The Guggenheims’ mining disaster

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One of the worst mining disasters in U.S. history, at a coal mine owned by the Guggenheim family in Eccles, West Virginia, was reported by the New York Times on this date in 1914. Between 183...
Delegates at the San Remo conference in 1920. Source: YouTube screenshot.

Recalling San Remo, and international law regarding the Jewish state, 100 years later

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Exactly 100 years ago this week, World War I allied powers including the British Empire, Italy, France and Japan, along with the United States serving as an observer nation, met in San Remo, Italy,...
The Einsteins and the Kronenbergs on a trip to the Grand Canyon in 1931. From left, Ellie Kronenberg, (Obscured Woman ?), Elsa Einstein, Albert Einstein, Max Kronenberg

Escaping the Holocaust with quick thinking

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On Yom Hashoah, there were a number of Holocaust stories on my Facebook feed, mostly personal testimonies of children and grandchildren of survivors. Thankfully, my own grandparents were spared those horrors.  Their families had come...
Holocaust survivor Mira Rosenblatt, 96.

Mira Rosenblatt: A story of leadership, resilience and survival

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Mira Rosenblatt will never forget Aug. 12, 1942. On that day, the teenager was among the 30,000 Jews living in the Sosnowiec Ghetto in Poland who were rounded up by the Nazis and herded...
View of the empty Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on April 19, 2020. To prevent the spread of COVID-19, the museum will remain closed this year on Holocaust Remembrance Day, but will switch its main activities on their website and social media. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Yom Hashoah ceremonies to be observed online-only due to coronavirus crisis

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Though Israel’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations usually include large ceremonies and events attended by thousands, the somber occasion will be marked this year exclusively in digital format for the first time ever, due...
Leah Hason, a resident of northern Israel, delivers testimony of her experiences as a Holocaust survivor, April 20-21, 2020. Credit: The Jewish Agency for Israel.

Israeli Holocaust survivor’s testimony to be aired via Facebook live

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While official in-person ceremonies are canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak, the Jewish Agency for Israel will host two virtual Yom Hashoah events, bringing Jews around the world together to hear from Holocaust survivor...
A security guard stands in the empty Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on April 19, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Global Jewish population still short of pre-Holocaust figure

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Eighty-one years after the Holocaust, the global Jewish population is still short of the 16.6 million estimated to have been alive on the eve of the war in 1939, with Israel’s Central Bureau of...