Posts Tagged: holocaust
Poland and the Jewish World: A Defining Moment
When I went to my first Polish-Jewish encounter -- in Chicago, in the early 1980s -- I was struck by how thin the veneer of relationships was. While...
New York Times Editorial Tests Trump on Holocaust
A New York Times editorial urged President Donald Trump to emphasize Jewish victimhood in his statement this year for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Times editorial...
Holocaust Education: The Last Chance for Humanity
JNS.org - With International Holocaust Remembrance Day having just passed, I can’t help but consider the mounting challenges to Holocaust education. As the number of victims of...
Remembering the Holocaust Is Not Enough
This week, on January 27th, we observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of the darkest chapters...
The Need for Post-Holocaust Studies
The memory and discussion of historical events usually fade away with the passing of time. This does not seem to be the case with the Holocaust,...
‘No Resting Place: Holocaust Poland’ Sears and Stuns as It Probes
"No Resting Place: Holocaust Poland," by Rick Halperin and Denise Gee; photographs by Sherry Aikman SMU Embrey Human Rights Program/Terrace Partners (October 2017). Hardcover (11.75”...
Migrants Must Visit Nazi Concentration Camps, Germany’s Jewish Council Says
New migrants to Germany must visit Nazi concentration camp memorials to help tackle a perceived rise in antisemitism, Germany's Central Council of Jews said on...
Aharon Appelfeld, Acclaimed Israeli Novelist and Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 85
Aharon Appelfeld, a prolific Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor whose works examined the lost world of European Jews and the new lives they pursued in...
German Court Rules ‘Bookkeeper of Auschwitz,’ 96, Must Go to Jail
Germany's constitutional court has ruled that a 96-year-old German must go to jail over his role in mass murders committed at the Nazi death camp...
Can We Use ‘Fake News’ to Advance a Cause?
I like the Hebrew term for the Christian festival coming up this week: Hag Hamolad, Festival of the Birth. A virgin birth, quite unbelievable. It is an...
On the Trail of Japanese Holocaust-Era Hero Chiune Sugihara
A picturesque hilltop in the rustic countryside of central Japan’s Gifu Prefecture is the last place one might expect to hear Hebrew. But at the...
Thankful for Liberation From Nazis, French-Jewish Holocaust Survivor Donates $1 Million to Help US Military Veterans
A French-Jewish Holocaust survivor is donating $1 million to help US military veterans, the Sun-Sentinel reported on Wednesday. A ten-year-old Bernard Darty was hiding from the...
Two Ex-Nazi Camp Guards Charged in Germany Over Hundreds of Holocaust Deaths
German prosecutors investigating Nazi-era crimes said on Wednesday they had charged two former SS officers in their 90s with complicity in hundreds of murders at...
Why They Keep Leaving Jews Out of the Holocaust
The Canadian government has announced that it will correct a memorial plaque at its new National Holocaust Monument, which spoke of the “millions of men,...
