Tag: Holocaust Survivors
Knowledge is power against hate: Online course designed to set Holocaust record straight
Anyone who still believes that ignorance is bliss hasn’t seen how easily it can be turned into hate.
Nov. 9 will mark 82 years since Kristallnacht, “the Night of Broken Glass.” A night when authorities...
Holocaust Claims Conference says Germany agrees to give $662 million to survivors
The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany announced on Wednesday that after negotiations with the German government on behalf of Holocaust survivors, it has agreed to give $662 million in aid to an...
October 9, 1981: Mermelstein Vs. Holocaust Denial
Mel Mermelstein, a Czech-born survivor of Auschwitz, was successful in his suit against the Institute for Historical Review (IHR), a Holocaust-denial outfit, in Los Angeles Superior Court on this date in 1981. The year...
September 18, 1927: Elliot Welles (Kurt Sauerquell), Holocaust survivor and nazi-hunter was born
Elliot Welles (Kurt Sauerquell), who headed the Anti-Defamation League’s Task Force on Nazi War Criminals from its founding in 1979 until 2003, was born in Vienna on this date in 1927. He and his...
More Than 16,500 Tune into Weekly Movie Series about Heroism of Rescuers During the...
More than 16,500 people tuned into The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous’ (JFR) weekly summer movie series on Facebook. The Foundation aired one of its award-winning documentaries highlighting the Righteous Gentiles who saved Jews...
Holocaust survivor receives honorary diploma from Jewish high school
A Holocaust survivor has finally—and officially—completed her formal education after gaining an honorary diploma from a Jewish high school, fulfilling a lifelong dream.
Miriam Schreiber, 88, received the diploma on Aug. 16 from the New...
Austrian Holocaust survivors’ descendants to be eligible for citizenship from Sept. 1
The descendants of Austrian Holocaust survivors will be eligible for Austrian citizenship starting next month, the Austrian Embassy in Israel announced earlier this week. The measure extends to survivors’ children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
“All direct...
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Dr. Henry Slucki
Hear and Meet a Holocaust Survivor
For over three decades, Holocaust survivors have volunteered their time at the Museum of Tolerance to speak about their experiences during World War II. Over 50,000 visitors per year...
July 2, 2016: Elie Wiesel, Auschwitz Survivor and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Dies at...
Born on September 30, 1928, in Sighet, Romania, Elie Wiesel pursued Jewish religious studies before his family was forced into Nazi death camps during WWII. Wiesel survived, and later wrote the internationally acclaimed memoir Night....
Indelible: Photographing the daughters of Holocaust survivors
Israeli photographer Debbie Morag was born in the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons camp. Her photographs of the daughters of Auschwitz survivors testify that the memory of the Holocaust never leaves them. An exhibition of these...