Tag: Holocaust
Holocaust-denying graffiti found on wall in French village burned down by Nazis
French politicians from across the political spectrum condemned Holocaust-denying graffiti written on a wall in the village of Oradour-Sur-Glane, where the Nazi massacre of many of its inhabitants took place during World War II.
French...
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...
US ambassador to Holland visits cemetery that includes graves of Waffen-SS
U.S. Ambassador to Holland Pete Hoekstra visited a Dutch cemetery on Thursday where Nazis are buried.
“Walked among the graves at Ysselsteyn, a cemetery for German soldiers from WWI & WWII. A terrible reminder of...
State Department: ‘Much work remains’ to provide restitution to Holocaust survivors and their descendants
Property belonging to Holocaust survivors and their descendants have yet to be returned to their rightful owners, in addition to restitution to these people, is an issue largely unresolved 70 years after the end...
Jewish groups, customers denounce Nazi face masks worn in Minnesota Walmart
Jewish groups have rebuked a couple who was confronted at a Walmart in Marshall, Minn., on July 25 for wearing Nazi swastika-flags on their face masks.
Raphaela Mueller, who was born and raised in Germany...
Holocaust center to present Tisha B’Av film screening, survivor interview
The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills, Mich., will hold a virtual event and film screening of the documentary “Hidden” on July 30, along with an interview with Holocaust survivor Miriam Ferber.
The event is timed...
Betraying Jewish history by watering down the Holocaust
The British baroness Ruth Deech, whose family were Jewish refugees from Nazism, recently delivered an impassioned address to the Oxford Jewish community about the way the Holocaust is being evacuated of meaning by memorials...
German court convicts 93-year-old SS guard
A German court convicted a 93-year-old former concentration-camp guard on Thursday on 5,232 counts of accessory to murder.
Bruno Dey, who served as a guard at the Stuthoff concentration camp during the final months of World...
Online movie series to feature rescuers and rescued during years of Holocaust
The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR) is launching a Monday-night movie series, from July 27 to Aug. 21, each week airing one of its award-winning documentaries that highlight Righteous Gentiles who saved Jews...
July 17, 1921: Hannah Szenes, a member of the Jewish resistance against Nazism, was...
Hannah Senesh (originally Szenes) was a paratrooper trained to rescue Jews during the Holocaust. Captured and killed by the Nazi's, she is still a national heroine in Israel.
Through her brief but noteworthy life, Senesh...