NY Philanthropists Honored With Holocaust Museum Regional Award
Danielle Schwartz Auerbach and Nicole Pines Lieberman traveled from their homes in Manhattan to the Washington D.C. museum to memorialize the Days of Remembrance, America’s annual commemoration of the...
Book Review: Recipes From Auschwitz
Survival Stories of Hungarian Jews Olga Elek and Marton Sternberg
By Michele Justic
Besides the total annihilation of the Jews, the Nazis also sought to erase Jewish personalities. Forcing them to shave...
U.S. to Deport Former Nazi Guard Living in Tennessee
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Thursday that a former Nazi concentration-camp guard who was living in Tennessee has been ordered to return to Germany.
Following a two-day trial,...
IBS: Global Jewish Population Still Short of Pre-Holocaust Figure
JNS.org – 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...
Elie Wiesel’s Family Welcomes Signing of Anti-Genocide Act
The signing on Monday of the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act by President Donald Trump was welcomed by the late Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate’s family.
The new...
Germany to Pay Additional $88 Million to Holocaust Survivors
Germany has agreed to pay another $88 million to fund social-welfare services for Holocaust survivors, according to the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany on Tuesday.
The...
Rivlin Pays Tribute to Danish Rescue of Jews From Nazis on 75th Anniversary
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Thursday recounted the extraordinary rescue of more than 7,000 Danish Jews from the clutches of the Nazis in October 1943.
Speaking at a ceremony in Denmark marking...
$30 Million More Allotted to Survivors of French Train Deportations
BY RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. State Department is ready to allot the second half of the $60 million in compensation for survivors deported to Nazi camps via...
Israel Marks Holocaust Remembrance Day 2019
As they do every year on Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israelis across the country stood at silent attention on Thursday morning as sirens wailed.
On Wednesday evening, as Holocaust Remembrance Day...
92-Year-Old Former SS Guard to Stand Trial for Nazi Crimes
A 92-year-old former SS guard charged with helping murder 5,230 prisoners at a Nazi death camp in World War II will go on trial in October, prosecutors said on Thursday.
Bruno...
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