Posts Tagged: holocaust
Actress Helen Mirren Advocates for Holocaust Victims Before Congress; Highlights ‘Moral Imperative’ to Ensure Return of Nazi Looted Art to Rightful Owners (VIDEO)
Iconic actress and Oscar winner Dame Helen Mirren declared before Congress on Tuesday that there is a “moral imperative” to ensure the return of Nazi...
How Dangerous Times Can Help Us Lead Better Lives
On May 10, 1940, the Nazis invaded Holland. Just four days later, the Dutch army surrendered, and three days after that, the entire country was...
At UN Summit, Israel Ambassador, World Jewish Leader Slam ‘Infected’ International Body for Backing BDS
Decades after the Holocaust, the United Nations is acting to deny the right of self-determination to the Jewish people through its support of the Boycott, Divestment...
How Do We Remember to ‘Never Forget?’ (VIDEO)
JNS.org - Never forget. It’s a phrase that has become synonymous with the Holocaust. It’s a phrase that promotes solidarity, in an attempt to prevent history from repeating...
Remember Them
Six-year old Abraham Freiburg had fled with his mother and long entertained the notion that Tati -- the Yiddish word for Daddy -- was only missing...
What’s Behind the Recent Glut of New York Times Holocaust Stories?
The editor of a Jewish newspaper for which I worked once imposed an informal limit on the number of Holocaust-related stories in each issue, remarking,...
The Malady of Jewish ‘Inner-Nazi’ Phobia
What is the fundamental lesson of the Holocaust for Israel and the Jewish people? There is a divergence of opinion. Many Liberal Jews believe the main...
We Remember the Holocaust, But We Go On
During the Shoah, a darkness descended upon the earth the likes of which have rarely been seen in the history of humankind. Irrespective of how...
How the Nazis Targeted Blacks, and the Impact of the Holocaust on African Americans
In recent years, some in the African American community have expressed a disconnect to Holocaust topics, seeing the genocide of the Jews as someone else’s...
Head of Holocaust Research Group Reveals New Shocking Testimony From Warsaw Ghetto (INTERVIEW)
The oft-repeated notion that Jews went willingly to the slaughter during the Holocaust is completely unfounded, a Holocaust commemoration activist told The Algemeiner on Thursday,...
What the Yom HaShoah Siren Means to Israelis
JNS.org - Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. At 10 a.m. all throughout Israel, a countrywide air-raid siren wails. That sound is alarming and too familiar for many...
Is Germany Really Honoring the Memory of the Holocaust?
In one episode of the TV show Band of Brothers, the liberation of a concentration camp is intensely portrayed. The camp in question was situated just outside...
Cannibalism Rampant in Bergen Belsen, Newly Unsealed Records Show
A trove of newly-released documents from the British National Archives reveal how some prisoners in the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen Belsen resorted to cannibalism...
Books of Esther Found in Hidden Warsaw Ghetto Synagogue Brought to Israel
JNS.org - Three Books of Esther scrolls read on Purim during the Holocaust were recently found in a hidden synagogue at the Warsaw Ghetto after a...
