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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...
Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and CEO of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and Dawn Arnall, its chairwoman, present a letter written and typed by Adolf Hitler in 1919 documenting plans for German and world Jewry to Pope Frances at the Vatican on June 22, 2022. Credit: Vatican Media, Courtesy of Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Simon Wiesenthal Center grants Pope Francis 1919 anti-Semitic letter by Hitler

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A 30-member Simon Wiesenthal Center international delegation met with Pope Francis on Wednesday to present a facsimile of an original four-page 1919 document authored and signed by Adolf Hitler, in which he openly espouses the destruction of...
Andrée Geulen-Herscovici with one of the Jewish child survivors of the Holocaust. Credit: Yad Vashem.

Belgian woman who saved Jewish children from the Holocaust dies at 100

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A schoolteacher and a member of the Belgian Resistance during World War II and the Holocaust, Andrée Geulen-Herscovici died on June 1 in Ixelles, Belgium, at the age of 100. As a member of...
The Israeli embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, unveiled a monument to those who helped Holocaust survivors, May 29, 2022. Source: Twitter/Zehavit Ben Hillel.

New monument in Tashkent spotlights Uzbek role in saving Jews during Holocaust

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The Israeli embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, unveiled a monument on Sunday to honor Uzbeks who assisted Jewish refugees during World War II. The monument is located in the city’s Victory Park. It was created by Uzbeki...
Author Mikhal Dekel and her book. Credit: Courtesy.

How do Putin and Zelensky get the Holocaust so wrong?

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t’s a piece of the Holocaust that even scholars misunderstand, or neglect altogether. And it’s a story unknown even to the descendants of a quarter-million Holocaust survivors. The United Nations Holocaust Outreach Programme hosted author...
Prisoners in the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, in December 1938. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Germany seeks prison time for alleged Nazi guard at former concentration camp

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German prosecutors are seeking a five-year prison term for a man who allegedly served as a Nazi guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II, reported the Associated Press. The 101-year-old defendant, who was...
An Easyjet Airbus A319-100. Credit: Nieuwland Photography/Shutterstock.

Airline deletes Holocaust-related ad from social media after facing backlash

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The low-cost British airline EasyJet removed from its official social-media account an advertisement that featured a flight number tattooed on a customer’s arm after social-media users criticized the ad’s references to the Holocaust. “While this...