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Lily Ebert and Walter Bingham at her home in London. Photo by Adam Lawrence/March of the Living UK.

Centenarian Holocaust survivors meet in London

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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...
Illustrative image of a classroom. Photo: Lopolo/Shutterstock

After Oct. 7, Shoah exam optional for Israeli high-schoolers

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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...
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered remarks at an event honoring the work and lives of 60 diplomats who helped Jews fleeing the Nazis, as recognized by the Forgotten Heroes of the Holocaust Congressional Gold Medal Act, Jan. 23, 2023. Credit: Courtesy.

Cardin honors diplomats who helped Jews fleeing Nazis during World War II

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Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered remarks at an event on Tuesday honoring the work and lives of 60 diplomats who helped Jews...
(L-R) Betty Ehrenberg, World JewFrom left are Betty Ehrenberg, World Jewish Congress; William Daroff, CEO, Conference of Presidents; Gadi Meiri, KKL Board of Directors; David Yaari, vice chairman of KKL-JNF; Eric Fingerhut, CEO of JFNA; Nat Shaffir, Holocaust Survivor; Ambassador Gilad Erdan, Israel's permanent representative to the U.N.; Ifat Ovadia-Lusky, chairwoman KKL-JNF; Deborah Isaac, president of the American Zionist Movement; Eric Goldstein, CEO of UJA Federation; and Ronnie Vinikov, head of external affairs at KKL-JNF. Photo by Sarri Singer.ish Congress; William Daroff, CEO, Conference of Presidents; Gadi Meiri, KKL Board of Directors; David Yaari, Vice Chairman of KKL-JNF; Eric Fingerhut, CEO of JFNA; Nat Shafir, Holocaust Survivor; Ambassador Gilad Erdan, Israel's Permanent Representative to U.N.; Ifat Ovadia-Lusky, Chairwoman KKL-JNF; Deborah Isaac, President of American Zionist Movement; Eric Goldstein, CEO of UJA Federation; Ronnie Vinikov, Head of External Affairs at KKL-JNF. Photo by Sarri Singer.

UN hosts photographic exhibit to Shoah survivors

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A collection of photos culled from a worldwide tribute to Holocaust survivors was held at U.N. Headquarters in New York on Wednesday, three days before the annual observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on...
Memorial candle. credit: Manfred Richter/Pixabay.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is different this year

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As the author of two post-Holocaust novels and a former high school history teacher, my guiding assumption before the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre in Israel was that the Holocaust was a unique event in...
A visitor looks at the photographs of camp inmates in Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial in Oswiecim, Poland. Credit: Shutterstock/Desi H. Sitorus.

Incorporating innovation to teach a new generation about the Shoah

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Sometimes, boredom becomes the mother of inspiration. Holocaust educator Adi Rabinowitz Bedein was listening to presentations from top scholars in her field at a conference she attended last year. One read the entire paper. Another...
The visitor reception center of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, and the former prisoner reception center of Auschwitz I. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Elon Musk, Ben Shapiro tour Auschwitz-Birkenau site while in Poland

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Ahead of a conversation at a European Jewish Association event in Krakow, Poland, billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk and Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro took some time on Monday to tour the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Rabbi Menachem Margolin, chairman of the...
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‘Occupied City’ reveals Amsterdam sites during Nazi German control

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The British filmmaker Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter, his wife and creative partner, described their views on history and European antisemitism in a recent interview discussing their new documentary, “Occupied City.” Disputing the idea that antisemitism has...
Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring on balcony of the Chancellery in Berlin on March 16, 1938. Credit: German Federal Archives via Wikimedia Commons.

Russell Crowe to play Nazi Party henchman Hermann Göring in ‘Nuremberg’ film

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A new drama will feature two acclaimed actors in a film exploring whether madness or malice drove the Third Reich’s reign of terror. In “Nuremberg,” Oscar-award winner Russell Crowe will play Nazi propagandist Hermann Göring, opposite Oscar-winner...
The Nancy and David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Credit: Courtesy.

Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Ohio museum is free

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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...