Posts Tagged: holocaust concentration camps
Lead Nazi Investigator in Germany Identifies Eight New Suspects
JNS.org - Germany’s lead Nazi crimes investigator has identified eight people who are suspected of working at concentration camps in Poland during the Holocaust. The head...
Viktor Frankl’s Best-Selling Holocaust Memoir, ‘Man’s Search for Meaning,’ to Be Made Into Movie
A production company based in Los Angeles obtained the film rights for world-renowned psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, a memoir chronicling his experiences during the Holocaust and describing...
Bob Dylan Thought of Producing Holocaust Movie, Says Ex-Lover in New Memoir
Music superstar Bob Dylan once conceived of producing a film about women who escaped Nazi concentration camps, the singer's former lover has revealed in a new memoir, the New York...
New Documentary Explores Holocaust Humor, Role That Laughter Played in Death Camps
Holocaust humor and the role that laughter played in the lives of Jews during World War II are the focus of a documentary that made its...
Israeli Auschwitz Survivor Yisrael Kristal is Now World’s Oldest Man at 112
JNS.org - Following the death of 112-year-old Japanese man Yasutaro Koide, the designation of being the world's oldest man likely belongs to Israeli Holocaust survivor Yisrael...
Sen. Schumer: US to Compensate French Rail’s Holocaust Deportees
JNS.org - The US State Department will accept applications for restitution from Holocaust victims (and their family members) who were transported to concentration camps by the French...
Neuroscientists Use Holocaust-Survivor Testimonies to Map How the Brain Processes Gratitude
Neuroscientists are using testimonies of Holocaust survivors to help map the way the brain experiences gratitude, the U.K's Daily Mail reported on Tuesday. Researchers took multiple recordings of...
Major Jewish Group Offers to Lead Google Team on Tour of Concentration Camps
A leading Jewish group offered to organize a week-long visit to Nazi concentration camps for the team behind a Google smartphone game that included the death camps as...
Jewish Group Thanks Pope for Recognizing Great Powers’ Failure to Intervene During the Holocaust
A leading Jewish group on Wednesday thanked Pope Francis for his recent criticism of the world’s “great powers” for failing to bomb the train routes that led victims...
Major Jewish Group Appalled at Proposal to Exempt German Muslims From Concentration Camp Visits
Leading Jewish human rights group the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) expressed shock on Monday over a call by a Bavarian parliament member to exclude German Muslims...
Honoring Liberators and Mahalniks Before It’s Too Late
It is no secret that the eyewitnesses to the Nazi death camps, the liberators from the U.S. and Allied Armies, are themselves quickly dying off. They...
Fresno City Council Candidate Apologizes for Election Flier Using Nazi Death Camp Image
Fresno District 7 City Council candidate Mike Wells apologized on Monday for upsetting members of the local Jewish community with campaign fliers that featured an...
The Holocaust Survivors Who Fell in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence
A special monument is located at the end of the trail that connects Israel's Yad Vashem, the official memorial to Jewish victims of the Holocaust,...
Rare Warsaw World War II Phone Book on Display in Honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day
A Warsaw, Poland, telephone book from 1939 with names of Jewish families living in the area at the start of World War II is on...
