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Israeli soldiers tour the new “Before My Very Eyes” exhibition at the Ariel Sharon Israel Defense Forces training campus in the Negev Desert. Credit: Yad Vashem.

Standing on the shoulders of survivors: New Holocaust center on IDF base designed to...

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In the winter of 1945, a time when 10-year-old Yitzhak Perlmutter spent his days pushing wheelbarrows full of coal from train to factory in Möllersdorf, a concentration camp subcamp, saving his extra piece of...
Young participants in March of the Living at the Auschwitz concentration camp site. Photo by Yossi Zeliger.

Annual Holocaust march faces major challenge as survivors pass away

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The International March of the Living will take place in Poland on April 28 following a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19. Despite the ability to gather in person, organizers say they now face a...
New immigrants Charley and Shaked Smith, and their baby son, Adar, on April 27, 2022. Photo by Yonit Schiller.

Nefesh B’Nefesh welcomes 74,000th new immigrant ahead of Israel’s 74th year

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Nefesh B’Nefesh, in partnership with Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, the Jewish Agency for Israel, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael and JNF-USA, welcomed its 74,000th new immigrant on Wednesday. Charley Smith, 34, made aliyah from Florida and reunited...
Selection of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau in German-occupied Poland during the final phase of the Holocaust in May/June 1944. Credit: Yad Vashem via Wikimedia Commons.

‘Yom Hashoah: A Day to Remember’ online program to feature survivor’s ordeals

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The Touro College Hans Goldschmidt Institute for Human Rights and the Holocaust will mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 28 with an online program called “Yom Hashoah 2022: A Day to Remember” from noon to 1:30...
Memorial candle. Credit: Pixabay.

Holocaust survivors to pass torch of remembrance to next generation

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Holocaust survivors from five continents will share their experiences during and after World War II and the Shoah as part of a 10-hour online conversation hosted by the Combat Antisemitism Movement, Zikaron BaSalon affiliated with the...
American and Israeli Millennials exhibit support for each other in a recent survey conducted by the American Jewish Committee. Creativa Images/Shutterstock.

Solid base of support, but points of divergence in new survey of millennial Jews

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An American Jewish Committee survey of U.S. and Israeli Jewish millennials shows that Israel-Diaspora relations remain strong but also indicates points of divergence regarding what role Diaspora Jews should have in influencing Israeli policies,...
Irgun fighter Dov Gruner, who was executed by the British in 1947. Photo: Government Press Office archive.

Executed Irgun fighter’s tefillin found after 75 years

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Decades after they were lost, the tefillin (phylacteries) of Irgun fighter Dov Gruner, who was hanged by the British in 1947 after being caught during a raid on the Ramat Gan police station, are...
Orlando, Fla. Credit: Pixabay.

‘Real-time’ testimonials from survivors to highlight new Orlando Holocaust center

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The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida, north of Orlando, will expand, relocate and be renamed as its mission shifts to preserving the testimonials and memories of survivors of the Shoah. The new...
Philip De Vere, via Wikimedia Commons

The Secret of Six

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I love the connection of numbers and Torah. In macro terms, Torah is the blueprint of the universe. What is the secret of six? According to the famous Passover song, Who Knows One?, one is God,...
Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova was born in Mariupol, Ukraine, in 1930 and survived the Nazi roundups that took her mother and family. Obiedkova, an active member of Mariupol's Jewish community, died in a freezing basement in Mariupol on April 4. Credit: Chabad.org/News.

Holocaust survivor, 91, perishes in store basement in Mariupol

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As she lay dying in a Mariupol basement, freezing and pleading for water, Holocaust survivor Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova wanted to know only one thing: “Why is this happening?” Ill and emaciated during the last two...