Tag: Holocaust
US asks the UN Security Council to condemn Abbas’s ‘deeply disturbing’ remarks on Holocaust
The United States on Friday asked the U.N. Security Council to reject the “unacceptable” and “deeply disturbing” remarks by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas concerning the Holocaust.
The U.S.-drafted statement would have the council express “serious...
It’s time to look past the Holocaust
A recent poll found that 41 per cent of millennials in the United States believe that no more than two million Jews perished in the Holocaust, while 22 per cent aren’t sure what the...
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Living Challenge of Anti-Fascism
My late father, Charles Slucki (Sluggo), used to tell me that April 19, the start of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, is a heylige date, or holy day, his Yom Kippur; that even though he remembered...
Agreement gives all proceeds of Anne Frank diary sales to New Israel Fund
All proceeds from the sales of the renowned Diary of Anne Frank will be distributed to the New Israel Fund, according to an announcement made by the organization and the Anne Frank Foundation on the eve...
Ensuring we never forget, even in a world without Holocaust survivors
When my grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, passed away very suddenly in 2008, I went through his office in hope that he had documented his experience—that he had in some capacity written his story down,...
UN Ambassadors visit Auschwitz on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Thirteen Ambassadors to the United Nations from Africa, Europe and Latin America visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camps in Poland today on Yom Hashoah (Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day), as part of the 30th annual...
Current World Jewish population still below pre-Holocaust figures
According to figures released Tuesday by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, the number of Jews alive today is still lower than it was in 1939, prior to the Holocaust.
Prior to the murder of...
Poll: 20 percent of Central, Eastern Europeans do not accept Jews as fellow citizens
About one-fifth of people polled in Central and Eastern European countries say they do not accept Jews as fellow citizens and do not want Jewish neighbors.
Some 32 percent of Armenians, 23 percent of Lithuanians,...
The Holocaust continues to haunt Europe
The latest news is unbearable: In Paris, an 85-year-old Jewish woman, Mireille Knoll, who survived the Franco-Nazi deportations of the 1940s, was stabbed to death by a young Muslim whom she had known since...
Poland’s President signs bill for Day of Remembrance of Poles who saved Jews
President Andrzej Duda on Wednesday signed into law a bill declaring March 24 as the National Day of Remembrance of Poles who saved Jews from the Holocaust during World War Two.
"In tribute to Polish...