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The Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City revealed a shofar that was hidden and blown in the Auschwitz concentration camp 75 years ago, Sept. 23, 2019. Credit: Museum of Jewish Heritage via Instagram.

New York Jewish museum reveals hidden shofar from Auschwitz ahead of holidays

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The Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City revealed on Monday a shofar that was hidden and blown in the Auschwitz concentration camp 75 years ago and...
Marko Feingold in a synagogue in Saltzburg, Austria, with middle-school students in April 2015. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Austria’s oldest Holocaust survivor dies at 106

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Austria’s oldest Holocaust survivor died on Thursday at the age of 106, announced Vienna’s Jewish Community organization, or IKG, on Friday. Marko Feingold was born in 1913 in present-day Slovakia and was arrested in Prague...
The main gate of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Credit: Angelo Celedon via Wikimedia Commons.

Trump to visit Israel in January to mark 75th year of Auschwitz liberation

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U.S. President Donald Trump, along with other world leaders, plans to visit Israel in January to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration and death camp. To be hosted in Jerusalem...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). Credit: Flickr.

Ocasio-Cortez rejects Auschwitz tour with Holocaust survivor

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U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) rejected an invitation on Sunday to tour Auschwitz with a Holocaust survivor. The organization From the Depths, whose president, 93-year-old Edward Mosberg, is a Holocaust survivor, invited her to see...

An opera about Auschwitz!?

I was one of the brave souls who attended a performance of the opera, The Passenger’ by Mieczyslaw Weinberg. I did so mainly because a friend of ours was the revival director of the production...
Dr. Shmuel Rosenman, founder and co-chairman of March of the Living, is flanked by Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon; Jewish Agency chair Isaac Herzog; U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman; and a delegation of U.S. ambassadors and White House representatives headed by Friedman, including former Israeli Chief Rabbi Israel Lau, and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, Archbishop of Constantinople, at the entrance to Birkenau during the 31st annual March of the Living. Credit: March of the Living.

March of the Living founder: ‘The only thing worse than Auschwitz is the world...

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On Holocaust Memorial Day (Yom Hashoah) on May 2, under the theme “Say No to Anti-Semitism,” more than 10,000 Jewish and non-Jewish youth from 40 different countries, together with dozens of Holocaust survivors and dignitaries from around...
Members of the first-ever official U.S. government delegation to the March of the Living hold the American flag up at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps in Poland. Credit: March of the Living.

First-ever official US delegation participates in March of the Living

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Several senior U.S. officials for the first-time took part in the March of the Living to commemorate the deaths of six million Jews during the Holocaust on Yom HaShoah. The U.S. officials in the delegation...

Delegation of Koreans at Auschwitz asks forgiveness for Christian anti-Semitism

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A delegation of dozens of South Koreans visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps in Poland say they are there to ask for forgiveness for centuries of Christian anti-Semitism. “We write this letter to say sorry and...
Kaliv Chassidic Rabbi Menachem Mendel Taub at a special ceremony in Jerusalem on March 13, 2019. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Kaliv Chassidic leader Rabbi Menachem Mendel Taub dies at the age of 96

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Kaliv Chassidic leader and Holocaust-remembrance advocate Rabbi Menachem Mendel Taub passed away on Sunday at his home in Jerusalem at the age of 96. Thousands attended the funeral of the haredi religious leader on Sunday afternoon. Born in...
Jewish Cultural Quarter, Amsterdam. Credit: Holland Tourism Ministry.

Exhibition at Dutch National Holocaust museum leaves out Auschwitz pictures

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Holland’s national Holocaust museum excluded four pictures taken at Auschwitz from a current exhibition. The Jewish Cultural Quarter of Amsterdam, which consists of the National Holocaust Museum, dismissed criticism that the pictures were censored, saying they...