Posts Tagged: Holocaust survivors
German Chancellor Merkel Warns Against Closing ‘Our Eyes and Ears’ to Antisemitism
Yahoo/AFP - German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Sunday that society must "never close its eyes" to antisemitism as she joined Holocaust survivors to mark 70...
German Chancellor Merkel Joins Holocaust Survivors to Mark Dachau Liberation
JNS.org- German Chancellor Angela Merkel marked the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp near Munich on Sunday. In a speech before...
Hungarian Holocaust Survivors Thank US Troops Who Saved Them
JNS.org - A group of Hungarian Holocaust survivors on Sunday thanked American troops who helped rescue them from a train that was taking them...
Harvey Weinstein Encourages Jewish Action Against Antisemites: ‘Kick These Guys in the Ass’
Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein on Tuesday night urged Jews to stand together and act against antisemites, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "We better stand up and...
Auschwitz ‘Bookkeeper’ to Face Trial Over Holocaust Crimes in April
JNS.org - Oskar Groening, a 93-year-old former guard at the Auschwitz death camp, will go on trial in Germany in April on at least 300,000 counts of...
‘Night Will Fall’ Holocaust Documentary Omits the Word ‘Jewish’
JNS.org - Last night, I prepped myself mentally for the difficult visual experience ahead and sat down to watch the much-anticipated Night Will Fall documentary, which premiered...
Popular Radio Host Tells Family’s Holocaust Stories Through the Written Word
JNS.org - Best known as a popular radio host on Sirius XM's Symphony Hall channel, Martin Goldsmith has a deeper and darker tie to music. As...
Hanukkah: A Survivor’s Way of Finding Hope in Tradition
Recently, someone asked me what part of Hanukkah held the biggest significance for me as a child. It was with some embarrassment that I began...
New Fund Will Compensate Holocaust Survivors Deported by French Rail Company
JNS.org - A new $60 million French and U.S. government fund has been established to compensate Holocaust survivors in the U.S. who were deported to concentration camps by France's state...
Holocaust Survivor and Rescuer Reunite at JFK Airport Before Thanksgiving
JNS.org - A Holocaust survivor met with her rescuer at JFK International Airport in New York on Wednesday, a day before Thanksgiving, for the first time...
Déjà Vu: Jewish Renegades Spewing Vitriol Against Their People
From the outset of Operation Protective Edge, Jewish renegades have been increasingly propelled into the limelight. One example was a recent letter published as an...
BBC News Website Promotes the Anti-Israel Defamation of a Fringe Racist Group
Here's an item with absolutely no news value which the BBC News website's editors obviously wanted to make very sure that audiences did not miss. An...
Revealed: ‘Ideal Aryan’ Nazi Poster Child Was Jewish
Oh, the poetic justice. Almost 80 years later, turns out the "perfect Aryan baby" exploited by Nazi propaganda to illustrate the "master race," was Jewish. In 1935,...
Czech Republic to Honor ‘British Schindler’ Who Saved 669 Jewish Children From Nazis
A British philanthropist will receive the Czech Republic's highest state decoration for rescuing 669 mostly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of World...
