Posts Tagged: Holocaust remembrance
We Must Keep the Memory of the Holocaust Alive Through Aggressive Education
My grandparents and many members of my family were exterminated by the Nazis. I would probably also have perished had my parents not had the...
Croatian Jews to Boycott Official Holocaust Memorial Event Over Government ‘Apathy’ About Resurgent Neo-Nazism
The Croatian Jewish community intends to boycott the country’s official Holocaust remembrance ceremony, to protest what it considers the government's apathy towards the resurgence of neo-Nazism, Voice of America radio reported...
Holocaust Remembrance Foundation Launches Program to Teach Students About Evils of Global Genocide
The founder of a Holocaust remembrance foundation told The Algemeiner on Thursday he hopes a new program introducing students to survivors of the Nazi and Rwandan genocides will teach that ethnic cleansing is...
Holocaust Remembrance Day and Ban Ki-Moon’s Cowardly Act
Embedded in the DNA of the Jewish people there is a special gene; call it remembrance. From the time Moses first showed up at Pharaoh’s palace,...
Time to Rethink Holocaust Remembrance Day?
JNS.org - Do we need Holocaust Remembrance Day? Since some of you may be incredulous that I even asked that question, let me first explain...
Tragedy of Mizrahi Jewish Refugees Emerges From the Shadows
JNS.org - To properly understand how the Holocaust has been seared onto Israel's collective consciousness, one should visit the country on the 27th of...
Life in Israel Stops for Moment of Silence in Honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day
Daily Mail - Traffic ground to a halt, pedestrians stood still and radio and television fell silent for two minutes today, as Israel remembered the...
Israeli Minister Recites Exceptional Kaddish at Auschwitz (VIDEO)
Before Israeli Knesset Member Uri Ariel, Minister of Construction and Housing, embarked on his recent trip to Poland together with some 60 other MKs, he...
Israel’s UN Ambassador Ron Prosor: Palestinian Children Still Taught to Hate Jews
JNS.org - Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Ron Prosor issued a stern warning on Wednesday against the failure to crack down on incitement and Holocaust...
A View from Auschwitz on Holocaust Remembrance Day
JNS.org - OSWIECIM, Poland—The day is Jan. 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, established by the United Nations to memorialize the lives of the...
Hard to Take Even for Hitchcock
For years cable channels like "The History Channel" and "The Military Channel" were dubbed "The Hitler Channel" because, as often as not, the little dictator...
Adolf Eichmann’s Israeli Prison Guards Speak Out for First Time
JNS.org - The identities of the Israeli prison guards who kept watch over and ultimately carried out the execution of Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann were...
Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, PA Compares Israel to Nazis
JNS.org - A few days ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the official Palestinian Authority (PA) newspaper published an op-ed claiming Israeli Prime...
New Excavations Shed Light on Sobibor Death Camp
JNS.org - A recent excavation has provided a silent testimony to the mass killing of about 250,000 Jews at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp in...
