Tag: Holocaust
The day Nazis took Warsaw Ghetto jews to Treblinka extermination camp
JULY 22, 1942, dawned hot and muggy in the Warsaw Ghetto. Two years earlier the Nazis had forced the Jewish population of German-occupied Poland into an area occupying just 1.3 square miles surrounded by...
The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery, by Captain Witold Pilecki
A new book, “The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery ” (Aquila Polonica: 2012), documents, in his own words, Pilecki’s remarkable exploits, and I can’t think of a better gift to give yourself for Khanukah.
Pilecki was...
« Les intellectuels juifs de 1945 à nos jours», Sandrine Szwarc
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On connaît ma signature dans l’hebdomadaire « Actualité Juive » pour lequel je dirige les pages culturelles et régionales depuis plusieurs années. Mais on sait moins que je...
Mélenchon agrees with Le Pen: France not responsible for Holocaust
Leftist French leader Jean Luc Mélenchon has said France bears no responsibility for the actions of the pro-Nazi Vichy government during the Holocaust, according to Haaretz — echoing the remarks of far right wing leader Marine le Pen.
Mélenchon...
Memories unearthed from the Lodz Ghetto
An exhibit of unearthed photographs is offering a heartbreaking glimpse into an unforgivable part of our past. With Chip Reid, we uncover it again:
Krysia Rosenstein speaks of a childhood of nightmares: "And they were...
In Warsaw with father, Ivanka Trump honors Polish Jews killed during Holocaust
While in Warsaw on Thursday, Ivanka Trump visited the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes and the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
In a social media post, President Donald Trump’s Jewish daughter called the...
How the UN is advancing an anti-Israel agenda, more than 70 years after the...
I’m on a Holocaust and Jewish history tour in Germany and Poland. I seek to better understand the planning and execution of the Holocaust seven decades ago. I seek to better understand the machinery...
Jewish groups critical of Hungarian praise for Hitler ally
The World Jewish Congress and the leading Jewish group in Hungary objected Friday to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's praise for Miklos Horthy, the World War II-era leader who allied Hungary with Nazi Germany.WJC...
“The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook”. Great book, unfortunately they left the Yiddish out!
Beautifully translated for a new generation of devotees of delicious and healthy eating: a groundbreaking, mouthwatering vegetarian cookbook originally published in Yiddish in pre–World War II Vilna and miraculously rediscovered more than half a...
Polish PM criticised for migrant comments at Auschwitz ceremony
Critics have denounced Poland’s prime minister for making comments during a memorial observance at Auschwitz that appeared to defend her tough anti-migrant policies.
Beata Szydlo said that “in today’s restless times, Auschwitz is a great...