Tag: Holocaust
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...
Parish priest in Warsaw Ghetto aided thousands of Jews
In a June 7 ceremony attended by Church and government leaders, the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation named the Church of All Saints in the Warsaw Ghetto a “house of life.”
Father Marceli Godlewski, the parish...
Ghosts of jewish Warsaw don’t haunt the city, but murmur in background
The ghosts of Jewish Warsaw don’t haunt the city, but they do murmur in the background.
Home to 375,000 Jews on the eve of the Second World War – one-third of the city’s population at...
New study claims Swiss rejected fewer Jews during Nazi era
According to historian Ruth Fivaz-Silbermann, who presented her 1,000-page postgraduate research project, ‘The flight to Switzerland’, at Geneva University last Saturday, 15,519 Jewish people tried to enter Switzerland via the Franco-Swiss border between 1939...
Torah rescued during Kristallnacht read during Jewish holiday
A boy salvaged a Torah from a burn pile almost 80 years ago.
Now, the scroll is touring Jewish communities around the world, including Lynnwood.
In November 1938, synagogues in Germany were set ablaze and thousands...