Tag: Holocaust Survivors
‘I understand Israeli skepticism over a nuclear agreement with Iran’
Alexander Schallenberg never imagined himself becoming chancellor of Austria. A lawyer by training, he was born in Switzerland to an aristocratic family and raised in India, Spain and France, where his father served as...
March of the Living UK focuses on nuance as it brings delegation to Germany...
GERMANY—The two provocateurs who approached the group at the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany at the end of October knew what they were doing. What they probably didn’t realize was that they helped cement...
HBO acquires rights to biopic about boxer forced to fight fellow prisoners in Auschwitz
HBO Films has bought the North American rights to a biographical movie about a boxer who survived Auschwitz after being forced to fight fellow prisoners.
“The Survivor” was directed by Jewish Academy Award-winning director Barry Levinson with...
World War II letter connects families of Jewish survivors, Polish farmer who hid them
The descendants of two Holocaust survivors and the farmer who hid them from the Nazis in Poland have connected with the help of a recently discovered post-World War II letter.
Karolina Jurzyk, 35, said that...
Park in Florence, Italy, named after Jewish resistance fighters during Holocaust
A park in Florence, Italy, has been named after a Jewish couple who joined the Nazi resistance during World War II and became prominent members of the local community, The Jerusalem Post reported.
The park, close to...
Holocaust survivor awarded Balzan Prize honoring scientific achievements
A historian and Israeli-French-American Holocaust survivor was one of the recipients of this year’s international Balzan Prizes, which recognizes distinguished scholars, artists and scientists.
Saul Friedlander, 88, was awarded the prize for Holocaust and Genocide Studies for...
Thousands of elderly Israelis to receive care packages for Rosh Hashanah
As vulnerable populations continue to take precautions due to the Delta variant of the coronavirus, the Jewish Agency for Israel’s affordable-housing subsidiary, Amigour, will provide comprehensive food packages to the elderly, with a focus...
Dani Dayan appointed chair of Yad Vashem, meets with Holocaust-survivor staff
The Israeli government on Sunday confirmed the appointment of Israel’s former Consul General in New York Dani Dayan as the new chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate.
Dayan, 65, served as Israel’s consul general in New York...
Congress doubles funding request for assistance to Holocaust survivors
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education recommended a $10 million funding increase on Tuesday for the Holocaust Survivor Assistance Program (HASP) for the fiscal year 2022.
According to a...
Auschwitz survivor who used music to help combat racism, anti-Semitism dies at 96
Holocaust survivor Esther Bejarano died on July 10 at the Jewish Hospital in Hamburg, Germany, at the age of 96, according to The Associated Press.
Born in 1924 in the French-occupied German town of Saarlouis, Bejarano...