Posts Tagged: holocaust
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...
Art Looted During Holocaust Should be Returned, World Jewish Congress Leader Urges
JNS.org - World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder urged German officials in Berlin Thursday to work toward returning Nazi-looted art to its...
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...
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...
Bronx Synagogue Swastika: Rabbi Says Graffiti ‘Particularly Hurtful’ to Holocaust Survivor Members
Kingsbridge Center of Israel Rabbi David Jonas said that swastika graffiti tagged on his synagogue in Bronx, New York, was "particularly hurtful" because of the Holocaust...
Boteach: Elie Wiesel’s NYT Iran Ad ‘Not About Israel or the Jewish People, but About Human Rights’ (INTERVIEW)
Elie Wiesel's full-page ads in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are "not about Israel or the Jewish people, but about human...
“ŽRemembering the Holocaust: Ruth Lichtenstein and Project Witness “Ž
It was May 7, 1945, when the Germans signed the surrender agreement that ended World War II, and what we now know as the Holocaust....
ADL ‘Deeply Troubled’ by Brooklyn College Departments’ Sponsorship of Events Featuring ‘Unabashed Haters of Israel’
The Anti-Defamation League says it is "deeply troubled" by the fact that two events at Brooklyn College this week featuring "unabashed haters of Israel"...
Kristallnacht Commemorations in Europe Hide Modern Day Anti-Semitism
JNS.org - While commemorations for the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht took place around the world last weekend, remembrance of the atrocity does not address...
Belarus Commemorates Former Israeli PM Begin With Statue, Releases Stamps Honoring Zionist Leaders
Former Israeli Prime minister Menachem Begin is being commemorated with a statue in Belarus, the country of his birth, i24 News reported Monday. Begin, born in...
Controversial Film ‘Aftermath’ Confronts Poland’s Relationship With the Holocaust (INTERVIEW)
'Aftermath,' a Polish film that began a limited run in New York last week and will be making its way to Los Angeles, tells the...
Claims Conference Says Germany Complicit in Stolen Holocaust Art
JNS.org - The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) has accused Germany of being morally complicit in the theft of 1,500...
Commemoration of Hungarian Nazi Collaborator Draws Protest
JNS.org - Nearly 1,000 protestors took to the streets in Budapest to decry the far-right Jobbik party's unveiling of a statue of Hungarian wartime...
ADL Honors Ukrainian Archbishop Who Saved Jews During Holocaust
The Anti-Defamation League posthumously honored a Ukrainian Archbishop on Friday for his role in saving Jews during the Holocaust. Metropolitan Archbishop Andrei Sheptytsky, a spiritual...
