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The newly certified Holocaust educators spent a week training at Israel’s official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, representing the first time that Yad Vashem has gathered a group of campus leaders for an intensive training, February 2020. Credit: Yad Vashem.

Chabad on Campus emissaries train at Yad Vashem to be Holocaust educators

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Some 30 campus Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries concluded an eight-day training program at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, learning cutting-edge, relevant and effective tools that will allow them to teach about the Holocaust and the growing problem...
Representatives from the Israeli emergency medical services’ organization Magen David Adom pack boxes of protective gear, responding to a request by Chabad to help communities in China amid the coronavirus outbreak, February 2020. Credit: Courtesy.

Corona and the Chinese ambassador’s Holocaust chutzpah

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China’s acting ambassador to Israel came under well-deserved fire this week for invoking the Nazi genocide of the Jews to criticize Jerusalem’s preventive measures against the spread of the coronavirus. At a press conference in...
A wall at the Dachau Concentration Camp in Munich, Germany, reads “Never again” in five different languages. The memorial was built as a Holocaust memorial. (U.S. Air Force photo illustration/Senior Airman Briana Jones)

Never again? Only if the Jews never stop fighting

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How does a Jewish girl born after the war experience the Shoah and remember it? The answer is with strain, disgust and disbelief—yes, quite naively. In her defense, there is no one to teach...
World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder at Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp for ceremonies marking the 70th year of its liberation by Allied forces, January 2015. Credit: European Jewish Press.

Auschwitz liberation ceremony draws world leaders, Holocaust survivors and their families

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On the hallowed grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau on Monday, Holocaust survivors and world leaders gathered to commemorate the 75 anniversary of the liberation of the camp, where a stark message about the growth of anti-Semitism...
One of the most famous pictures of Jews being rounded up by Nazi Germans during the Holocaust, this from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in May 1943. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

US House passes Never Again Education Act on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which commemorates the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed on Monday the Never Again Education Act, a bill that seeks to...
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte speaks at the 2013 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 24, 2013. Photo: Monika Flueckiger/World Economic Forum via Wikimedia Commons.

Prime minister of Holland apologizes for nation’s role in wartime persecution of Jews

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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Sunday became the first Dutch leader to officially apologize for his country’s role in the Holocaust. Speaking at an event in Amsterdam to mark the 75th anniversary of the...
Ida and Avraham Ehrenreich. Sent on transport #31 from Drancy to Auschwitz on Sept. 11, 1942. Credit: Courtesy.

Auschwitz 1942: The story behind my missing grandparents

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As a child growing up in the small English town that offered refuge for my parents in their flight from the Nazis, I was acutely aware of many differences between my own family and...
The main gate of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Credit: Angelo Celedon via Wikimedia Commons.

Trump issues proclamation on 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

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U.S. President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on Friday commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, formally declaring a “National Day of Remembrance of the 75th Anniversary...
Jean-Louis Forain, a French Impressionist painter. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Germany returns Nazi-looted art to descendants of French Jewish collector

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The German government on Wednesday returned three works of art stolen from a Jewish lawyer and collector during the Nazi occupation of France to descendants of their original owner, reported France 24. The two paintings—Dame en...
Polish President Andrzej Duda speaks during a ceremony in the March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Memorial Day, on April 12, 2018. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90.

A Polish-Russian row over commemoration of the Holocaust

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A profound and bitter battle between Israel and Poland has been brought to crisis point by the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, which is being commemorated by world leaders this week at...