On 83rd anniversary of Kristallnacht, Austria dedicates new memorial to murdered Jews
On the 83rd anniversary of Kristallnacht and in a clear gesture that it is finally taking public responsibility for its past, the government of Austria unveiled the Shoah Wall of Names Memorial, its first...
Los Angeles City Council officially declares May 12 ‘Anne Frank Day’
The Los Angeles City Council has approved a resolution led by Los Angeles City Council members Paul Koretz and Bob Blumenfield declaring May 12 as “Anne Frank Day” in the city of Los Angeles.
May...
Helen Mirren to portray Golda Meir in new film on Yom Kippur War
Oscar-winning British actress Helen Mirren will play the role of iconic Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in an upcoming biographical film Golda.
The movie will be directed by Oscar-winning Israeli director Guy Nattiv. Production is...
Gaza rocket damages Holocaust museum
KIBBUTZ YAD MORDECHAI — A Holocaust museum in a kibbutz near the Gaza Strip has been damaged by a Hamas rocket.
The From Holocaust to Revival Museum, which is located less than two miles from the...
On Tisha B’Av, mourning incomparable loss, working on increased unity
Why is Tisha B’Av the saddest day of the Jewish year?
Eerily, not only were both of the holy temples in Jerusalem destroyed on the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av (the first...
A Holocaust survivor’s visit to her childhood home transports her to the past
Standing in the foyer of her childhood home at Reilstraße 18 in Halle, Germany, nonagenarian Eve Kugler recalled fleeing her hometown soon after Kristallnacht when she was a young girl. Now, 83 years later,...
Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Ohio museum is free
Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, held annually on Jan. 27, and in response to “the unprecedented rise in Holocaust denial and antisemitism,” the Nancy and David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati...
Kristallnacht remembrance to feature digital images of ‘restored’ synagogues
The World Jewish Congress will mark the 83rd anniversary of Kristallnacht by projecting digital reconstructions of 18 synagogues destroyed by Nazis in Germany and Austria in November 1938.
Using 3D technology, images showing the interiors of the...
Jews and Germans in Eastern Europe
Preface
In the last 25 years historiography has shifted its focus increasingly away from long standing “methodological nationalism” and toward more transnational approaches and perspectives. These take an interest in relational aspects of history, moving...
Yiddish radio show commemorates 75th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation
די וואָך איז געוואָרן 75 יאָר זינט די סאָוועטן האָבן באַפֿרײַט אוישוויץ. כּדי צו באַערן די קרבנות פֿונעם חורבן און די וואָס האָבן איבערגעלעבט דעם נאַצישן גיהנום, האָבן אַ צאָל פּרעזידענטן, פּרעמיערן און דיפּלאָמאַטן...