Tag: Holocaust
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin visits future site of Holocaust museum in Greece
On a state visit to Greece, one of Israel’s closest Mediterranean allies, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin visited the site of a railway station that was used to transport Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp....
Spare us your Holocaust hypocrisy
Last Saturday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The problem is that so many of the mournful and resolute speeches and statements uttered by international leaders on Jan. 27 are so laden with hypocrisy that...
Arabs are torch-bearers for Nazi anti-Semitism
Truth be told, the virus of Nazi anti-Semitism was exported to the Arab and Muslim world as early as the 1930s. It gave ideological inspiration to Arab nationalist parties like the Ba’athists in Syria...
After saving Jewish children from Auschwitz, this humble heroine chose obscurity
By the autumn of 1942, trains had carried 2,289 Jewish men, women and children from the French Rivesaltes concentration camp northwards to Drancy.
By the autumn of 1942, trains had carried 2,289 Jewish men, women...
Never forget human tragedy of the Holocaust
In Liberty State Park, there stands a 15-foot high bronze statue of a World War II soldier carrying a body. That limp body being cradled in the arm of the soldier is not that...
In Search of Justice in France
In one of his, essays Henry James remarked that "ife is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong ... goodness very apt to be weak." Recognizing that this is not illusion, it is heartening that...
Leader Of Viennese Jewish Community Will Not Attend Holocaust Ceremony If Far-Right Party Is...
The Jewish community of Vienna has let it be known that they will not attend Austria’s official Holocaust commemoration ceremony if the far-right Freedom Party (the Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs in German, commonly abbreviated as the FPÖ) is also...
Wladyslaw Kowalski: The Polish Officer who Saved 49 Jews
Wladyslaw Kowalski was an unusual Polish officer: he had a positive attitude toward Jewish people. During World War II, saving Jewish lives eventually became his mission.
Kowalski was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1896. He...
Nazi guard dubbed ‘Bookkeeper of Auschwitz’, 96, jailed for four years
Oskar Groening, known as the ‘Bookkeeper of Auschwitz’, was found guilty in July 2015 of being an accessory to the murders of 300,000 people at the Nazi death camp in occupied Poland.
Groening has not...
Anne Frank’s final days, as told by her former classmate
Looking through the barbed wire of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 14-year-old Nanette Konig could barely recognize her friend and classmate from Amsterdam, Anne Frank.
Both girls had been caught by the Nazis in the Dutch capital...