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Still learning of liberators, all these years later

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Like many children of survivors, Bernice Lerner has spent most of her life ruminating on the Holocaust and writing about big questions. How was the Holocaust allowed to occur? What is the connection between...

What Biden didn’t say about antisemitism

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U.S. President Joe Biden’s speech on May 7 at the U.S. Capitol, during which he eloquently revisited Nazi Germany’s journey from racial laws discriminating against Jews to outright genocide, demonstrating the parallels with today’s...

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...
An image of Jewish life at the start of World War II and the Holocaust. Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Holocaust survivors asked to record testimony with their families

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Some 100 Holocaust survivors and their families are participating in a new campaign of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) called “Our Holocaust Story: Pledge to Remember.” Seeing survivors with their family...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog delivers an address at Yad Vashem on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jerusalem, April 17, 2023. Credit: Kobi Gideon/Government Press Office.

Holocaust remembrance and inexcusable hyperbole

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During his Holocaust Remembrance Day speech on Monday night at Yad Vashem, Israeli President Isaac Herzog admonished the public never to invoke the genocide of the Jews in any context other than the Shoah itself. This was...
MK Boaz Bismuth attends a Knesset Arrangements Committee meeting, Dec. 13, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Reform opponents disrupt Likud MK speech during Holocaust Remembrance Day

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Anti-judicial reform protesters interrupted member of Knesset member Boaz Bismuth of the Likud Party as he spoke at a Holocaust memorial service at a Tel Aviv synagogue on Monday evening. Several protesters shouted “Shame” at...
A threatening letter, written in English, was sent to Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, April 2023. Source: Twitter.

Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich receives threatening letter in English

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Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich received a threatening letter with Nazi symbols on Tuesday, his office said. The English-language letter accuses the Religious Zionism Party leader of “intending to destroy Israel.” Pictures taken of the...
The seven Holocaust survivors who attended the 2022 International March of the Living, April 28, 2022. Photo by Yossi Zeliger.

International March of the Living: Watch

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Thousands of participants from across the globe were set on Tuesday to walk down a 3-kilometer path leading from Auschwitz to Birkenau on Holocaust Remembrance Day—Yom Hashoah—as part of the International March of the Living. Since...
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’...
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...