Tag: Holocaust & Holocaust Survivors
Only survivor of 6,000 Jewish children deported from France dies, aged 97
Henri Borlant, the sole survivor of the 6,000 Jewish children under the age of 16 who were deported from France to Auschwitz in 1942, died on Dec. 3, aged 97.
Borlant spoke often of his...
Only Shoah museum in Iberia commemorates ‘Night of Broken Glass’
The Oporto Jewish community in Portugal, one of the strongest in Europe, commemorated the anniversary of Kristallnacht at its Holocaust Museum on Nov. 7.
Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, marks the night of...
Rediscovered Monet artwork stolen by Nazis is returned to Jewish family
The granddaughters of Adalbert (“Bela”) and Hilda Parlagi have recovered one of seven artworks seized from the couple by the Nazi Germans in 1940.
Helen Lowe and Francoise Parlagi received on Wednesday “Bord de Mer,” a 7x11-inch...
In Holocaust restitution agreement, Pennsylvania museum will auction Renaissance painting
A balding man with a long white beard and large mustache sits with his hands clasped and the bejeweled Order of the Golden Fleece insignia—a sheep associated with Jason and Argonauts—around his neck.
The c....
Florida teacher, honored by Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, wants to teach Shoah ‘continuously’
Mary Ellen Richichi, a non-Jewish middle-school teacher in the Florida public school system, grew up immersed in Holocaust education. Her father, who served in the U.S. military during the Cold War, was always watching History...
The great escape
Pushed into a train car by the SS after getting separated from his parents during the Nazi liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, the skinny Jewish teenager noticed a small unsecured window high up and...
Monument at summer camp in Ontario honors Estonian collaborators of Nazi Germany
After an antisemitism watchdog group contacted Seedrioru—a summer camp for Estonian children in Elora, Ontario—regarding a monument built to honor four Nazi Waffen-SS-associated Estonians, officials quietly removed references to the men from its website.
Friends of Simon...
Steven Field elected chair, president of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous
Dr. Steven Field, a clinical assistant professor at the New York University School of Medicine and an NYU Langone Health physician, has been elected chairman and president of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous.
The...
‘Uncomfortable history’ at Nazi bunker-turned-hotel in Hamburg
Where four anti-aircraft guns used to be on the roof of a tower, hotel guests now find a restaurant, bar, café, shop and hotel foyer.
The Reverb hotel at the Hamburg Bunker is constructed on...
YIVO exhibit of Holocaust diary shows how teen retained ‘understanding of himself as a...
People who explored an online YIVO Institute for Jewish Research exhibit about the diary of Beba Epstein, a 13-year-old girl who survived the Holocaust after hiding in Vilna, told YIVO that prior to that...