Posts Tagged: holocaust
NYC Deliveryman Wins $900,000 Verdict in Anti-Semitic Harassment Suit
A New York City deliveryman has won a $900,000 jury verdict, payback for the anti-Semitic harassment he endured while working at a Midtown eatery...
World’s Oldest Holocaust Survivor Finally Gets Her Close-Up (VIDEO)
At 109 years old, Alice Herz-Sommer can make multiple claims: she is the world's oldest pianist, as well as its oldest Holocaust survivor. Now she's...
Holocaust Historian Israel Gutman Dies at 90
JNS.org - World-renowned Holocaust historian Professor Israel Gutman, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Auschwitz concentration camp and one of the...
Rare Photos Show Jews in Lodz Ghetto Observing Sukkot in 1941
A series of photos documenting the observance of Sukkot in the Lodz Ghetto in 1941 were recently revealed by the Shem Olam Institute. The photos show...
Jewish Resistance Fighter Shalom Yoran Dies
NY Times - For three years, Shalom Yoran survived the German occupation of Poland even as he saw his fellow Jews slaughtered by the...
Holocaust Hideout in Warsaw Destroyed by Polish Couple
JNS.org - A Polish couple pleaded guilty to the desecration of a historic site for destroying a Holocaust-era Jewish hideout in the Warsaw apartment...
Jewish Developer of Holocaust-Themed Video Game to Raise Funds Online to Release in 2014
JNS.org - A developer who in 2008 created a video game based on the Holocaust that was rejected by Nintendo said he will raise...
Daughter of Auschwitz Kommandant, Modeled for Balenciaga, Then Worked at Jewish Owned Shop for 35 Years
One of the daughter's of Auschwitz Kommandant Rudolf Höss once capitalized on her beauty to walk the runway as a model for dress maker Balenciaga,...
Morality Undetectable: Gilad Atzmon Says Farewell to Helen Thomas
Merely characterizing Gilad Atzmon as antisemitic simply doesn't do justice to the degree of hatred he spews. Atzmon advances demonizing rhetoric about Jews which...
Bidding for Schindler’s Actual List Starts at $3 Million on eBay
JNS.org - The original physical list compiled by German industrialist Oskar Schindler, who saved 801 Jews from being transferred to the Auschwitz death camp...
Prague Railway Station Used by Nazis to Become Holocaust Memorial
Israel Channel 7 / AFP - A Prague railway station that saw tens of thousands of Czech Jews leave for ghettos and Nazi death camps between...
New Play by Son of Yad Vashem Architect Tackles Why We Build Holocaust Memorials (INTERVIEW)
False Solution is a provocative new one-act play by Oren Safdie being performed at La MaMa in New York City that grapples with the construction...
98-Year-Old Former Nazi Charged in Hungary
BBC - Hungarian prosecutors have charged a 98-year-old man, Laszlo Csatary, with participation in Nazi war crimes. He is under arrest in Hungary, accused of assisting...
German Woman’s WWII-Era Diary Shows How Citizens Turned Blind-Eye to Nazi Crimes
The diary of a young German woman's experiences during WWII is finally seeing the light of day, and it may offer new insight into the...
