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A survivor kept the key from a German synagogue destroyed on Kristallnacht. 86 years later, the relic is returning home.
The University of Northern Iowa’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education invites you to a webinar with Sol Nayman, Holocaust Survivor and Educator Thursday January 26th, 2023 • 12:30 pm Central Time ON ZOOMfree and open to the public Sol Nayman, …
Mount Mercy UniversityApril 18th — 22nd The exhibit “Let Me Be Myself” highlights Anne Frank’s life story and the fate of the millions of Jews persecuted during World War II. Tours may be self-guided or may be in-person as a …
[email protected] (Yelena Dzhanova) – Saturday Two Ukrainian women who’ve fled their country amid turmoil brought on by the Russian invasion have found refuge in Israel. Their grandmother — Maria Blishchik — hid a Jewish girl named Fanya Bass in Ukraine during World …
By Hollie McKay According to the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Jewish Ukrainians make up about 0.13 percent of the population.Hollie McKay KYIV, Ukraine — Jewish leaders are desperately struggling to get their elderly community to safety — an already excruciating …
ANDREW SILOW-CARROLLFEBRUARY 27, 2022 9:00 AM (JTA) — In launching his war on Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared his goal was the “denazification” of the country – referring specifically to his allegations that Ukraine is responsible for or planning a …
The Thaler Holocaust Remembrance Fund welcomes back to Eastern Iowa Yom HaShoah Guest Speakers, Michael Bornstein and his daughter, Debbie Holinstat in March 2022. The authors of Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz. The …
Decades under a communist regime erased the memory of Romania’s position as a principal Nazi ally in oppression and murder of Jews. By STEPHEN MCGRATH7 February 2022, 2:42 am BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Maksim Goldenshteyn recounts a story his grandmother once …
Mel Mermelstein, providing testimony in court | CREDIT: BETTMANN ARCHIVE
A documentary based on a home movie shot by an American in 1938 provides a look at the vibrancy of a Jewish community in Europe just before the Holocaust. By Nina SiegalJan. 3, 2022 AMSTERDAM — Glenn Kurtz found the film reel in …