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“Shoes on the Danube Promenade” memorial to the Holocaust on the Danube River, erected in 2005. Credit: Nikodem Nijaki/Wikimedia Commons.

Israel to scan Hungary’s Danube river from remains of Holocaust victims

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At the behest of Interior Minister Aryeh Deri and in coordination with forensic experts from the Israeli emergency organization ZAKA, an Israeli recovery team will dive to the bottom of Hungary’s Danube river to...

Why is Egypt intent on restoring Jewish heritage sites in a country devoid of...

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The government of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi recently announced a multimillion-dollar initiative to restore Jewish heritage sites throughout the country. Soon afterwards, the government backtracked, probably due to a public backlash. “The Egyptian ministry...
Visitors seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on April 10, 2018, ahead of Israeli National Holocaust Remembrance Day. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90

Canary in the mine: Yad Vashem’s Holocaust-awareness programs tackle 21st-century anti-Semitism

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It’s American teachers like Lori Fulton who, with their commitment to Holocaust education, are poised to be potent forces for holding back the current tidal wave of anti-Semitism for the next generation. Many of the...

New Jewish Documentation Center, Containing 100 Years of Jewish Life in Mexico City, Opens...

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A catastrophic 1985 earthquake that killed thousands of people in Mexico City and destroyed the (back-then) Jewish neighborhoods of Roma and Condesa also left the archives of the Ashkenazi community in a state of...
One of the most famous pictures of the Holocaust, this from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in May 1943. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Study: A quarter of Jews murdered in Holocaust killed in 100 days in 1942,...

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Almost a quarter of the Jews killed in the Holocaust were murdered during 100 days in 1942, making it the time frame with the highest killing pace in the 20th century, according to a new...
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Who knew? Hebrew could be the basis for many English and European words

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English and European words such as alphabet, earth, loco and habitat could come from Hebrew, according to an independent Israeli linguistics researcher who has written a number of unpublished dictionaries, articles and books. According to the English Oxford...
Georges Loinger, a Jewish resistance fighter who saved more than 350 Jewish children by helping them escape from France over the border with Switzerland, passed away on Dec. 28, 2018. Credit: Claude Truong-NGOC/Wikimedia Commons.

Georges Loinger, who saved 350-plus Jewish children during the Shoah, dies at 108

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Georges Loinger, a Jewish man with Aryan features who managed to save hundreds of Jewish children during the Holocaust, died on Friday at the age of 108. Loinger became a member of the French Resistance...
A 2,000-year-old ring was found in an ancient ritual bath uncovered at the City of David, just outside the Old City of Jerusalem. Photo courtesy of City of David.

2,000-year-old ring found in ancient Jerusalem ritual bath

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A 2,000-year-old ring with a solitaire gem stone was uncovered in archaeological excavations in the City of David National Park in Jerusalem. The ring was found by Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists in what appears to...
Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

On display in Jerusalem: Near East artifacts rescued from antiquity robbers

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A collection of artifacts that were stolen but later rescued will be on display at the end of the month at the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem. The museum will open a new exhibit on Dec....
German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Hall of Names during her visit at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem on October 4, 2018. Credit: Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL.

Germany to compensate Holocaust survivors who fled Nazis as kids, 80 years later

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Eighty years later, Germany has said that it will compensate Jewish men and women who survived the Holocaust as children—most of whom lost their parents during the Shoah and years of World War II—according...