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Sharaka participants in the Old City of Jerusalem, Feb. 26 to March 3, 2023. Photo by Dan Feferman.

Arabs in Sharaka delegation to Israel describe eye-opening education about the Holocaust

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A delegation of people from Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria and Turkey visited Israel from Feb. 26 to March 3 to learn about the Holocaust as a way to promote tolerance. The visit, during...
U.S. Army Soldiers, attached to Heavy Company, 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, take cover behind their vehicle as small-arms fire opens up in the distance in Mosul, Iraq, on Jan. 17, 2008. Credit: U.S. Army Photo by Spc. Kieran Cuddihy.

Iraq anniversary reminds us that avoiding war isn’t always wrong

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As a general rule of thumb, it’s always best to avoid analogies to Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill and Neville Chamberlain. The trio of the greatest villain in history, the hero who defeated him, and...
World-renowned cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper helped create a large-scale symphonic work honoring the heroism of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, who helped thousands of Jews escape World War II and the Holocaust. Credit: Courtesy.

Yad Vashem-sponsored symphony celebrates Japanese diplomat who saved Jews during the Holocaust

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Samurai warriors live by the moral code bushido, or “way of the warrior.” World-renowned cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper, a half-Japanese convert to Judaism living in Tel Aviv, comes from a samurai background. So did Chiune Sugihara,...
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...
Anne Frank. Credit: Anne Frank House.

Anne Frank traveling exhibit on Holocaust, human rights, bigotry comes to Midwest

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“Anne Frank: A History for Today,” developed by the Anne Frank House, will be open to the public at the Putnam Museum and Science Center in Davenport, Iowa, from Sept. 2 to Oct. 30....
Orde Wingate Square in Jerusalem. Villa Salameh (the Belgian Consulate) is at the left. Credit: Yoninah via Wikimedia Commons.

German official urged to resign after calling British officer Israeli ‘war criminal’

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A German official has been pressed to resign or be fired immediately for making accusations about a decorated World War II British Army hero and icon in Israel, reported Fox News. Michael Blume, commissioner against anti-Semitism...
U.S. Army pilot Gerald Teldon. Credit: Courtesy of the Teldon family.

Decades after serving, Jewish lieutenant receives World War II war medals

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Gerald Teldon, 97, nicknamed himself “Mr. Lucky,” flying more than 60 missions for the U.S. Army during World War II. What he never received, however, were his service medals. That changed on July 29, when—surrounded...
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...
Memorial garden at the former site of the Vélodrome d’Hiver (Vel’ d’Hiv), the Winter Stadium, in Paris, where 13,000 Jews were rounded up and forced to stay during July 16-17, 1943. Credit: Djampa via Wikimedia Commons.

Macron commemorates 80th year of mass arrest of French Jews during Holocaust

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French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the dangers of anti-Semitism as part of an 80th commemoration ceremony of a mass arrest and roundup of Jews in Paris that took place during the years of World...
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...