Posts Tagged: holocaust
How Bulgarian Citizens Rescued 50,000 Jews in 1943
JNS.org - Among all the tales of heroism and death during the Holocaust, how many of us are aware of the rescue of nearly 50,000...
‘From Every Floor, From Every Window:’ Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
JNS.org - “Now something unprecedented took place. Three officers with lowered machine pistols appeared. They wore white rosettes in their buttonholes – emissaries. They desired...
Last Surviving Nuremberg Trial Prosecutor Dies at 103
JNS.org - Benjamin (“Ben”) Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, passed away on April 7 at the age of 103. According to The New...
Do Child Victims of the Holocaust Explain Israel’s Baby Boom?
I recently read 50 Children, by Steven Pressman, a 2014 book that describes how Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, a Jewish couple from Philadelphia, brought 50...
‘The Images Will Stay with Me for the Rest of My Life’: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Photos Revealed
JNS.org - POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews revealed on Monday new-found images of the Nazis mercilessly putting down the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto...
Previously Unseen Photos of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Discovered
i24 News - The photos of the ghetto in flames and of the Jews being led to death, among others, found in Polish home A negative,...
Teaching the Holocaust in the Arab World has its Pitfalls
JNS.org - Good news from the Gulf: The UAE will teach about the Holocaust in its schools. It is only right that in the ongoing...
German Cultural Institute in Israel Reschedules Holocaust & ‘Nakba’ Remembrance Discussion After Fierce Protest
A controversial event discussing remembrance culture and pain of the Holocaust alongside remembrance of the Nakba originally scheduled to be held at a German cultural...
IDF Chief of Staff Denounces Iranian President Raisi’s Holocaust Denial During Visit to Auschwitz
IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi on Monday took aim at Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s remarks in a US television interview calling into question the...
Anne Frank’s Diary Banned from Texas School Library
A Texas school district in the suburbs of Fort Worth has pulled a graphic comic based on Anne Frank's diary from its libraries. The news, first...
Israel Blasts ‘Outrageous’ Russian Claim That Hitler Had ‘Jewish Blood’
Israel demanded an apology from Moscow after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov publicly claimed that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler “had Jewish blood” and accused Jews...
Why Just Remembering the Past Is Not Enough
Late last year, someone sent me the link to an editorial piece published in the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong’s primary English-language media outlet. “For the sake...
‘March of the Living’ Resumes After 2-Year Hiatus: ‘Almost the Last Opportunity to March With Holocaust Survivors’
The International March of the Living will resume its annual pilgrimage to the remains of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps in Poland this month following a...
Zelensky Urges Greater Support for Ukraine in Speech to Israel’s Knesset, Invoking Holocaust
In a virtual address to Israeli lawmakers, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday pleaded for help to defend his country and people from Russia's invasion,...
