Tag: Holocaust & Holocaust Survivors
Holocaust cattle car exhibit coming to National Mall, timed to Yom Hashoah
A Holocaust cattle car will be on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., from May 6 to 9, open to visitors for an immersive learning experience about World War II and the Holocaust, as...
Efforts underway in Poland to preserve shoe remains from Holocaust victims
Musician Grzegorz Kwiatkowski says walking doesn’t feel right on the ground outside of what was once the Stutthof concentration camp near Gdańsk, Poland. He learned the reason for that—and is now doing something about...
Herzog gives Talmud volume that survived the Holocaust to Yad Vashem
A rare volume of the Talmud printed before World War II and found unscathed in a historic Munich beer hall after the Holocaust was given to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum on Wednesday by...
Einstein-signed menu from 1930 appeal for European Jews up for auction
A menu from an Oct. 28, 1930 fundraiser to support European Jews as the Nazis rose to power, which is signed by Albert Einstein, H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw and the second Lord...
USC Shoah Foundation: We’re in most dangerous era for Jews since Holocaust
World Jewry is facing its most dangerous period since the end of the Holocaust nearly eight decades ago, the head of the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation said on Tuesday.
“The denial of the...
How a Jewish museum in Florida landed the Wiesel Collection
For about a year, officials at the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) in downtown St. Petersburg kept a closely guarded secret that the museum was seeking to become the permanent home of a treasure trove...
No statute of limitations on mass murder, experts say of Canada’s reluctance to pursue...
Canadian Jewish leaders appeared to be indifferent to, or at least complacent about, Nazis living in the country after World War II, adding insult to the Canadian government waving Nazis in after the war...
Chicago Muslim umbrella group usurps Holocaust in anti-Israel ‘Tribune’ ad
An advertisement that the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago ran on page seven of the Chicago Tribune on Feb. 11 shared a blood libel with the paper’s 2.2 million Sunday edition readers. Appropriately, the...
Centenarian Holocaust survivors meet in London
In an emotional encounter, two 100-year-old Holocaust survivors met last week in London, retracing their harrowing journeys through life.
Germany-born Kindertransport survivor Walter Bingham, who holds the Guinness Book of World Records title for the world’s...
After Oct. 7, Shoah exam optional for Israeli high-schoolers
Following the worst single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust on Oct. 7, Israeli high school students will not be required to take the Holocaust section of the history matriculation exam.
“Many inquiries were received...