Posts Tagged: Shoah
Gratuitous Use of Holocaust Imagery in the Israeli-Arab Conflict (VIDEO)
A video circulating on the Internet shows a group of Palestinian youth violently bullying and mocking two young Jewish men as they are chased...
Youngest ‘Schindler’s List’ Survivor Dies in California, 83
Leon Leyson, the youngest among the 1,100 Jews saved by German industrialist Oskar Schindler during World War II, died over the weekend at his southern...
Religion’s Most Repellent Idea
The most dangerous and offensive of all religious ideas is that innocent people suffer because of their sins. This notion, so easily abused, makes...
The Turkish Lobby Played a Long Game – And Won
How is this for a movie idea? The inhabitants of six peaceful villages located in a vast, but crumbling, empire receive an edict from government officials...
Nazi Collaborator: “Jews Screamed Like Geese” While Being Shot
Jonas Pukas, a suspected Nazi war criminal, was interrogated by New Zealand officials in 1992 at age 78. He was a member of the 12th...
Holocaust Museum With Focus on Orthodox Jews To Open In Brooklyn Next Spring
According to a UJA study conducted last year, 23 percent of Brooklyn's 2.4 million residents are Jewish, including an estimated 9,000 Holocaust survivors, the largest...
Chicago Teenager Marks the Shoah, Everyday
The date selected for Yom Hashoah, 27 Nisan, marks the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Chosen—not without controversy—by the Israeli Knesset in 1953,...
A World Without Holocaust Survivors
As the number of Holocaust survivors able to give direct testimony about their horrific experiences during World War II is dropping precipitously, the Jewish community...
Germans Setting Shoah Memories in Stone
Last month, on a sunny pavement in the Wilhelmsdorf-Charlottenberg section of Berlin, some 40 people solemnly gathered outside a block of tidy, well-scrubbed residential flats...
