Tag: Holocaust
Thessaloniki holds march to commemorate 50,000 Jews sent to the concentration camps
It was 75 years ago this week when the Nazi forces occupying Greece perpetrated a horrible crime: the deportation of 46,000 Jews from Thessaloniki. The Macedonian capital, Greece’s second largest city, had been the...
Professor David S. Wyman Z”L, 89, scholar and mensch
Almost every time David S. Wyman delivered a lecture related to his remarkable book, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945, someone in the audience would ask: Why would you, a Christian,...
Women during the Holocaust
The Nazi regime targeted all Jews, both men and women, for persecution and eventually death. The regime frequently subjected women, however, both Jewish and non-Jewish, to brutal persecution that was sometimes unique to the...
1946 State Department report suggests Poles persecuted Jews ‘vigorously’ during the Holocaust
In a bid to end the contentious debate surrounding Poland’s controversial Holocaust law, the Simon Wiesenthal Center released a declassified report on Thursday highlighting Polish complicity in persecuting Jews during the Holocaust.
The U.S. State...
Remembering the Danes’ Heroic Holocaust Actions
On February 13, 2018, Prince Henrik — husband of Danish monarch Queen Margrethe — died at the age of 83. Many Jews recall the courage of the Danish royal family, and the entire Danish people, during the Holocaust —...
‘Inheriting Genocide’ unpacks how Holocaust trauma spans generations
Does time—even an entire generation or multiple generations—actually heal all wounds? The question is a prominent one for trauma experts who study the Holocaust.
Natan Kellermann, Ph.D., a leading researcher on transgenerational trauma and the...
Musical Festival Resurrects Works by Jewish Composers Murdered in the Holocaust
In mid-September 1938, Benito Mussolini stood on an immense platform in the port city of Trieste’s Piazza dell’ Unita d’Italia and delivered a radio broadcast to the Italian people.
Far below him, thousands had packed...
Who owns the Holocaust?
(February 1, 2018 / JNS) Who owns the Holocaust? That, ultimately, is the key question posed by the impending legislation in Poland that will criminalize any discussion, or investigation, or mere mention, of incidents of Polish collusion...
Former U.S. lawmaker, Holocaust survivor, Tom Lantos honored with Budapest statue
A statue honoring former U.S. lawmaker and Holocaust survivor Tom Lantos was unveiled in Budapest, Hungary on Thursday.
The Hungarian-born Lantos, who served a Democrat from California in the House of Representatives from 1981 until...
Polish TV: Call them ‘Jewish death camps’ because ‘Jews ran crematoria’
A diplomatic dispute between Poland and Israel over pending legislation that would outlaw blaming Poland for the crimes of the Holocaust has led to an outburst of anti-Semitic comments in Poland, including some in...