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A model of the Holocaust memorial under construction in Vienna. Credit: The Association for Building a Wall of Names Memorial.

Construction of new Holocaust memorial underway in Vienna

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Construction has begun on a Holocaust memorial in Vienna for the 65,000 Austrian Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II. Called “The Memorial to the Jewish Children, Women and Men of Austria who...
One of the most famous pictures of Jews being rounded up by Nazi Germans during the Holocaust, this from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in May 1943. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

‘We are here’: Virtual concert to honor 77th anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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The Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, Sing for Hope and Lang Lang International Music Foundation will present the program “We Are Here: A Celebration of Resilience,...

Johan van Hulst: Dutch teacher who saved 600 Jewish children and babies from Nazis...

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Johan van Hulst was a Dutch Christian who, up until World War II, had already committed to helping children with his life — as a teacher, school director, university professor, and author. But when...
Survivors at the Dachau concentration camp cheer their liberation by U.S. soldiers. Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.

Bills pass on anti-Semitism envoy, assistance to Israel, marking Dachau liberation

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The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed bills on Thursday benefiting the Jewish and pro-Israel community, and instilling a resolution to remember the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp in April 1945. One bill would...
Leaders attending the San Remo Conference in April 1920. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

The San Remo Conference, a century on

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This month marks the 100th anniversary of the San Remo Conference. The international meeting was held by the Allied Supreme Council in the Italian Riviera in the aftermath of World War I, and determined...
World War II veterans, Jewish leaders and diplomats lay wreaths at Memorial Candle Monument in Jerusalem to mark Victory in Europe (VE) Day. Credit: Courtesy.

Veterans of World War II, Jewish leaders mark VE Day in Jerusalem

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Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov and Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) president Michael Mirilashvili laid a wreath on Sunday at the Memorial Candle Monument in Jerusalem to mark the 75th anniversary of the Allies’...

Book on rescuers, liberators, survivors of World War II gets new tech for new...

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To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II and the liberation of Europe from Nazi Germany on May 8—International March of the Living—a book about the era just got an...
A security guard stands in the empty Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on April 19, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Global Jewish population still short of pre-Holocaust figure

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Eighty-one years after the Holocaust, the global Jewish population is still short of the 16.6 million estimated to have been alive on the eve of the war in 1939, with Israel’s Central Bureau of...
Aron Bielski visiting the location in modern-day Belarus where he and his brothers fought the Nazis and other pro-German forces during World War II. Source: Screenshot.

A conversation with Aron Bielski, last of the Bielski brothers

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Aron Bielski is the youngest and last living member of the Bielski brigade, which he founded along with three of his brothers. Their activities have become widely known as one of the largest partisan...
The “Hall of Names” commemorating victims of the Holocaust at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Photo: David Shankbone via Wikimedia Commons.

Last German honored as ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ by Yad Vashem dies

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Gertrud Steinl, the last living German honored by Yad Vashem—the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem—for saving Jews during the years of World War II and the Holocaust, died on March 22 on the eve of...