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A road in the West Bank. Credit: Daniel Ventura/Wikimedia Commons.

PA deletes Jewish history, renames signs in key sites in Judea and Samaria

The Palestinian Authority is violating its agreements with Israel by trying to redefine historic sites and nature reserves in Judea and Samaria, Israel Hayom has learned. The Oslo II Accord, as well as subsequent agreements, grant the...
A delegation of the heads of the Rabbinical Congress for Peace met with Germany’s ambassador to Israel, Susanne Wasum-Rainer, about the Israeli- Palestinian conflict and the Jewish historical claim to the land of Israel, on Feb. 17, 2019.

Rabbis share Torah view on historical claim to land with German ambassador

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A delegation of the heads of the Rabbinical Congress for Peace—led by Rabbi Joseph Gerlitzky, rabbi of Chabad-Lubavitch in central Tel Aviv; Rabbi Avraham Schreiber, rabbi of the settlement of Shavei Shomron; and Rabbi...
Hurva Synagogue in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. Credit: Wikipedia Commons.

$55 million to be invested in Jewish Quarter of Old City of Jerusalem

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The Company for the Reconstruction and Development of the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem has several projects underway at a total cost of 200 million shekels ($55 million). The initiative seeks to...
A 1940 transit visa issued by consul Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese “Oskar Schindler,” in Lithuania. The holder was Czech and used his Czechoslovakian passport, issued to him in 1938. He managed to escape to Poland in 1939 and travel from there to Lithuania. In 1940, he received the visa for travel via Siberia and Japan to Surinam. Source: Wikipedia.

Son of Japanese Holocaust hero discovers father’s memorial destroyed by Beit Shemesh apartments

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The Jewish National Fund was left scrambling to apologize to the son of a former Japanese diplomat who saved the lives of approximately 6,000 Jews during the Holocaust, after a memorial grove of trees...

WWII archive shows how Polish diplomats helped Jews

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Polish officials last year announced the recovery of the archive, which they said contained historic documents showing how Polish diplomats helped rescue Jews from the Holocaust during World War II. The diplomats, led by the Polish...

Arab residents raze historical archaeological garden in Jerusalem

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Arab residents of the village Nabi Samuel, north of Jerusalem, recently razed the archaeological garden at the Tomb of the Prophet Samuel, utilizing heavy machinery apparently to construct a parking lot as a way...
The Dossin barracks, between Brussels and Antwerp, the antechamber of the death camps. Credit: EJP.

Relatives of victims seek Holocaust compensation from Belgium’s railway

Descendants of Holocaust victims in Belgium are pressing the country’s railway company SNCB to compensate them for its role in the deportations of Jews during the Holocaust, following the examples of France and the...
Italian Ambassador to NATO Claudio Bisogniero speaks at the NATO headquarters alongside a screen projecting #WeRemember photo via live stream from Auschwitz-Birkenau. Credit: NATO.

World Jewish Congress partners with NATO to raise Holocaust awareness

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Tens of thousands of photographs taken by during in the World Jewish Congress’s #WeRemember campaign to evoke awareness about the atrocities of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism will be screened on Thursday and Friday—days before International Holocaust...
The main gate of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Credit: Angelo Celedon via Wikimedia Commons.

Disturbing poll in Canada reveals critical gaps in Holocaust knowledge

A new and troubling poll conducted in Canada ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day reveals critical gaps in knowledge about and awareness of the Holocaust, particularly among the country’s millennials. The poll was conducted by...
The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City’s Battery Park (Photo: Wikipedia)

Auschwitz artifacts to go on exhibit in New York City

The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust has announced plans to present the most comprehensive Holocaust exhibition about Auschwitz ever exhibited in North America. Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not...