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Holocaust survivors to rewrite recently discovered Torah scroll

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The Survivor Torah Project, an effort to restore a Torah scroll hidden from the Nazis, has now reached Toronto, Canada. The scroll was found recently after being hidden for 75 years, given for safekeeping by a...
The Polish flag with Warsaw in the background. Credit: Velishchuk Yevhen/Shutterstock.

Jewish life in Polish capital thriving 80 years after Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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On the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Jewish life is thriving in the capital city, reports Rabbi Shalom Ber Stambler, director of Chabad of Poland. He and his brother, Rabbi Mayer Stambler, arrived in...

80 years ago, a Warsaw Ghetto Uprising play aimed to save European Jews

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Eighty years ago, Jews imprisoned in the sealed, overcrowded Warsaw Ghetto rebelled against their Nazi persecutors. Stubbornly clinging to a desire to die with honor, a small group of starving men and women, armed...
David and Avi Wisnia at a panel discussion as part of the International Conference on Education About Auschwitz and the Holocaust, October 26-29, 2015. Photo courtesy of Avi Wisnia.

How music led to a cantor’s survival story, and how it lives on in...

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April tends to feature a flurry of Holocaust-related arts pieces—from new exhibits to books to webinars and movies. One of them this year offers a through-the-generations feel that brings the past right into viewers’...
Likud MK Amichai Chikli, now minister of Diaspora affairs, speaks at the Federation of Local Authorities conference in Tel Aviv, Dec. 7, 2022. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Israeli minister calls out Poland, Greece and Ukraine over antisemitism

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Israeli Diaspora Affairs Ministry Amichai Chikli sent letters to Poland, Greece and Ukraine this week expressing his concern over antisemitic incidents in those countries. In a letter to Greece’s Ambassador to Israel Kyriakos Loukakis on...

Renowned Holocaust survivor and educator to be awarded one of Poland’s highest honors

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Legendary Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg will be posthumously awarded one of Poland’s highest honors this Friday in New York. The Polish Consulate of New York will be presenting Mosberg’s family with the Great Cross of...
Jews deported from the Warsaw Ghetto following the revolt of April-May 1943 (Z. L. Grzywaczewski / from the family archive of Maciej Grzywaczewski, POLIN Museum).

‘The images will stay with me for the rest of my life’: Warsaw Ghetto...

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POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews revealed on Monday new-found images of the Nazis mercilessly putting down the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Revolt. Captured in secret by a Polish firefighter while German forces set...
The 120-year-old Reicher Synagogue in Lodz, Poland. Credit: Wikipedia.

Pre-World War II synagogue in Poland closed and faces imminent demolition

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A synagogue that served as a Jewish house of worship in the city of Lodz, Poland, before World War II and, in recent years, has once again been used by members of the Jewish...
In the new film “My Name Is Sara,” a 13-year-old Jewish girl, Sara Goralnik, poses as “Manya,” there are some who would like to kill her in the newly released Holocaust film, “My Name Is Sara,” based on a true story. Credit: Courtesy of Strand Releasing.

All eyes upon this 13-year-old

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A young man starts to say the Shema because his father made him promise to do so if the Nazis were to get him. His sister, Sara, covers his mouth, and as the lights of the Nazis...
A monument commemorating the victims of the concentration camp KL Soldau set up by Nazi Germany in Działdowo during World War II, Aug. 19, 2014. Credit: Poeticbent via Wikimedia Commons.

Mass graves of 8,000 Nazi victims from World War II found in Polish forest

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Two mass graves containing the ashes of at least 8,000 Poles killed by the Nazis during World War II were recently discovered in a forest in Poland by archeologists and anthropologists from the Institute...