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Holocaust Museum Director Michael Rothwell and British Ambassador to Portugal Lisa Bandari speaking to schoolchildren at the Holocaust Museum of Porto, Nov. 7, 2024. Credit: Holocaust Museum of Porto.

Only Shoah museum in Iberia commemorates ‘Night of Broken Glass’

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The Oporto Jewish community in Portugal, one of the strongest in Europe, commemorated the anniversary of Kristallnacht at its Holocaust Museum on Nov. 7. Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, marks the night of...

Florida teacher, honored by Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, wants to teach Shoah ‘continuously’

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Mary Ellen Richichi, a non-Jewish middle-school teacher in the Florida public school system, grew up immersed in Holocaust education. Her father, who served in the U.S. military during the Cold War, was always watching History...

London Shoah memorial covered, guarded during anti-Israel protest

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London police on Saturday hid a Holocaust memorial from view and stood guard to protect the monument in the city’s Hyde Park from anti-Israel vandals. Built in 1983 as the U.K.’s first public memorial to...
Israeli flag. Credit: Anna Aybetova/Shutterstock.

A hollow Holocaust Remembrance Day

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It’s an important date on the international community’s calendar. Every year, the United Nations and many other institutions and organizations hold ceremonies on Jan. 27 commemorating the Holocaust. It’s long been clear that much...
(L-R) Betty Ehrenberg, World JewFrom left are Betty Ehrenberg, World Jewish Congress; William Daroff, CEO, Conference of Presidents; Gadi Meiri, KKL Board of Directors; David Yaari, vice chairman of KKL-JNF; Eric Fingerhut, CEO of JFNA; Nat Shaffir, Holocaust Survivor; Ambassador Gilad Erdan, Israel's permanent representative to the U.N.; Ifat Ovadia-Lusky, chairwoman KKL-JNF; Deborah Isaac, president of the American Zionist Movement; Eric Goldstein, CEO of UJA Federation; and Ronnie Vinikov, head of external affairs at KKL-JNF. Photo by Sarri Singer.ish Congress; William Daroff, CEO, Conference of Presidents; Gadi Meiri, KKL Board of Directors; David Yaari, Vice Chairman of KKL-JNF; Eric Fingerhut, CEO of JFNA; Nat Shafir, Holocaust Survivor; Ambassador Gilad Erdan, Israel's Permanent Representative to U.N.; Ifat Ovadia-Lusky, Chairwoman KKL-JNF; Deborah Isaac, President of American Zionist Movement; Eric Goldstein, CEO of UJA Federation; Ronnie Vinikov, Head of External Affairs at KKL-JNF. Photo by Sarri Singer.

UN hosts photographic exhibit to Shoah survivors

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A collection of photos culled from a worldwide tribute to Holocaust survivors was held at U.N. Headquarters in New York on Wednesday, three days before the annual observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on...
A visitor looks at the photographs of camp inmates in Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial in Oswiecim, Poland. Credit: Shutterstock/Desi H. Sitorus.

Incorporating innovation to teach a new generation about the Shoah

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Sometimes, boredom becomes the mother of inspiration. Holocaust educator Adi Rabinowitz Bedein was listening to presentations from top scholars in her field at a conference she attended last year. One read the entire paper. Another...
Dutch Jews at the Mauthausen concentration camp, June 26, 1941. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Jewish resistance hero identified 80 years after execution by Nazis

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Dutch forensic investigators have identified the remains of a man executed by the Nazis in the Netherlands eight decades ago as that of a Jewish resistance hero after locating a cousin in Australia, investigators...
Claude Lanzmanns audio archive, Jewish Museum Berlin. Photo by Roman März.

Holocaust audio archive at Jewish Museum Berlin now UNESCO ‘World Heritage’

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As of this month, the Jewish Museum Berlin is home to a collection of objects that is listed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Memory of the World Register. The original 16mm and restored...
Yom Hashoah. Bushko Oleksandr/Shutterstock.

Where Holocaust commemoration succeeded and where it failed

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In the 1980s, as the generation of Holocaust survivors began to age, the Jewish world found itself pondering some relevant questions: What would happen after the last of the survivors were gone? Who would...
A survivor participates in the annual Holocaust Remembrance ceremony at the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv, April 7, 2021. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Nearly 150,000 Shoah survivors live in Israel

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The number of Holocaust survivors living in Israel stands at nearly 150,000, according to statistics published on Sunday by the Holocaust Survivors’ Rights Authority ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The 147,199 Holocaust survivors residing in the...