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Gene Simmons of Gene Simmons Band performs at Alcatraz Metal Fest on August 11, 2024 in Kortrijk, Belgium. Photo by Elsie Roymans/Getty Images.

KISS rocker meets 100-year-old veteran who liberated his mom from Nazi camp

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An extraordinary moment unfolded Monday evening in Washington when Gene Simmons, the 75-year-old frontman for legendary rock band KISS, encountered Harold "Hal" Urban, a 100-year-old World War II veteran who participated in the liberation of the...
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Virtual Film Location delivers an authentic 1:1 digital replica of the German concentration and extermination camp available for filmmakers. Credit: Auschwitz.org.

Auschwitz launches digital replica of camp for filmmakers

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The Auschwitz Memorial, together with the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation and leading figures from the European film industry, announced at the Cannes Film Festival on May 15 the launch of a 1:1 digital replica of the...
Slain Israel Defense Forces Master Sgt. (res.) Asaf Cafri, 26, a tank driver in the 14th Reserve Armored Brigade's 79th Battalion, in an undated picture. Credit: IDF

Holocaust survivor dies after great-grandson KIA in Gaza

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Magda Baratz, a 96-year-old Holocaust survivor, died on Friday, 15 days after her great-grandson Master Sgt. (res.) Asaf Cafri was killed in action in the Gaza Strip. Cafri, 26, a tank driver in the 14th...
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and his chief of police Heinrich Himmler inspecting the SS Guard, c1938. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Nazi recording confirms Hitler ordered Holocaust

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Approximately 800 digital recordings and transcripts of Nazi criminals from after World War II were revealed on Saturday, including dramatic and disturbing testimonies that shed light on Nazi methods during the war and Holocaust and on...
A historic sign at the railway spur in Sobibor. Credit: Jacques Lahitte via Wikimedia Commons.

Last Sobibor survivor reveals buried Nazi atrocities

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The complete and extraordinary story of police officer Yaakov Biskowitz was never fully revealed until now. As a young boy, Biskowitz became one of the few people who survived for an extended period in a...
Holocaust survivor Ben-Zion Raisch and a family member light a torch during a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 17, 2023. Photo by Erik Marmor/Flash90.

One in 10 Israeli Shoah survivors died in past year

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Approximately 120,000 of the Holocaust survivors who made the Jewish state their home after the 1941-1945 destruction of European Jewry remain alive as of this month, the Ministry of Welfare and Social Affairs revealed...

‘We will uphold our vow: Never again!’

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Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar participated on Wednesday at a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony dedicated to the memory of foreign diplomats who helped save Jews during the Holocaust. The ceremony took place next to the...
Sara Milgram. Credit: Courtesy of Sara Milgram.

Every year, survivor Milgram tells her story. Today, she will tell it to 200...

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“When you first enlist in the IDF, they ask you to search for your ‘why,’ why you endure and fight. ‘Never Again’ is my why. I don’t want anything like that happening to my family or...

Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day

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Yom Hashoah, Israel's Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, started at sundown on Wednesday night with the annual ceremony at the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem. https://youtu.be/8YP48V27F7E The official state ceremony, held under...
The gate to Auschwitz. Credit: Alexander Zvir/Pexels.

The left’s vile Hitler-Trump analogies dishonor the Shoah

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After a volatile election last November, there seemed to be a consensus among sensible people that it was time to turn down the volume a notch on the hysterical partisanship that characterized so much...