Tag: Holocaust
Holocaust politics is bad for the Jews
At a time of rising anti-Semitism around the globe and threats from terrorism and nuclear blackmail aimed at the State of Israel, there are more important things to worry about than the question of...
Ukrainian parliament marks Holocaust Remembrance Day for first time in history
For the first time in its history, the Ukrainian parliament, referred to locally as “Verkhovna Rada,” marked both International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
The event on Thursday...
Senior US State Department officials outline commitment to recalling the Holocaust
Ahead of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz, senior U.S. State Department diplomats on Wednesday discussed U.S. policy to commemorating the Holocaust, including helping survivors of the...
Report: German family to donate millions to atone for Nazi-era deeds
One of Germany’s richest families, the owners of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts and other brands, is donating millions of euros to help Holocaust survivors to atone for its use of forced labor during the Nazi...
Belgian BDS activist to be awarded prize at Holocaust memorial
Belgian Catholic NGO Pax Christi Vlaanderen (Flanders) will award its “ambassador for peace” prize to Brigitte Herremans, a leading anti-Israel activist and former employee of the BDS-supporting organization Broederlijk Delen, on Dec. 12. The...
Meet Michael Schudrich: Rabbi to Poland’s Jews, the living and the dead
The phone rings in Michael Schudrich’s study. The young man on the other end sounds upset. His grandmother died, and he needs the rabbi’s help.
Not so unusual, right? Except that, just before she died,...
Amazon removes ornaments showing images of Auschwitz
Amazon has removed Christmas ornaments, a bottle opener and a mouse pad that showed images of the Auschwitz concentration camps amid a backlash from the memorial that manages the site where the Nazis killed...
Friend of Anne Frank’s opens up about German official who saved her family
A friend of Anne Frank’s from Amsterdam released a new memoir about the little known German official and lawyer Hans Calmeyer, who saved her family and others from the Holocaust.
In Shedding Our Stars: A Story of Hans...
Ukraine synagogue dating back to 18th century collapses due to fire
The Great Synagogue in Illintsi, Ukraine, was burned irreparably last Thursday by fire.
The 18th-century structure, about 130 miles northeast of the country’s capital of Kiev, collapsed due to the flames.
It had been used since...
Truth is not selective: Poland vs. Netflix
Poland’s government won an important victory on the battleground of history last week. It succeeded in persuading the entertainment-streaming service Netflix to amend a newly released World War II-based documentary that implied, through one of its...