Tag: Holocaust
August 4, 1912: Raoul Wallenberg was born
The best-known “Righteous Gentile,” Raoul Wallenberg, was born near Stockholm on this date in 1912. While serving as Sweden’s special envoy in Budapest between July and December 1944, Wallenberg saved tens of thousands of...
MGM to redesign security uniforms after complaint of Holocaust imagery
MGM Resorts International announced this week that it will redesign its security uniform following a complaint by a Jewish customer at a casino near Cleveland that the security badge-type star on it resembled the...
Polish organization aims to restore country’s Jewish heritage, building both bridges and awareness
Michał Laszczkowski, CEO of Poland’s Cultural Heritage Foundation, spends a great deal of time discussing Jewish law with rabbis at various Jewish cemeteries across Poland; in fact, it’s safe to say that he does...
The difference between intermarriage and the Holocaust
American Jews have a new reason to be outraged about Israel’s government. At a recent meeting of the Cabinet on the state of world Jewry, Education Minister Rafi Peretz decried the rising rates of...
Ukraine synagogue where Begin married gets first Torah scroll since World War II
The dedication of a Torah scroll at the restored Choral Synagogue took place on Wednesday in the Ukrainian town of Drohobych.
Yaakov Dov Bleich, the chief rabbi of Ukraine, dedicated a new Torah scroll together...
Archive smuggled from Nazi-era Germany acquired by Science History Institute
The Science History Institute has acquired an amazing collection of correspondence, books, photographs and scientific notes belonging to Jewish German chemist Georg Bredig, announced the Philadelphia museum on Tuesday.
The collection spans decades, from the...
Auschwitz exhibit examines faith as a mechanism for survival during the Holocaust
An exhibition that offers the public a glimpse into the role of faith as a mechanism for survival during the Holocaust opened at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland on Monday.
“Through the Lens of...
Croatia ignores charges by Jewish leaders of rewriting history of Holocaust
Rabbi Kotel Dadon, leader of Bet Israel Jewish community of Croatia, has alarm regarding the decision of the city assembly of Zagreb to dedicate a memorial to 6 million victims of the Holocaust without...
Ocasio-Cortez invited by Polish parliament member to tour concentration camps
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has been invited by a member of the Polish parliament to visit concentration camps in Poland that were used during World War II and the Holocaust.
This comes after the...
Why disingenuous Holocaust analogies matter
Even leftists are a little embarrassed by it.
The willingness of some Americans to analogize the plight of illegal immigrants seeking to enter the United States with that of Jews who sought to flee the...