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click for additional information Kristallnacht Shattered storefront of a Jewish-owned shop destroyed during Kristallnacht (the “Night of Broken Glass”). Berlin, Germany, November 10, 1938. — National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md. A NATIONWIDE POGROM Kristallnacht, literally, “Night of …
Click here for article with video November 6, 2016 11:09 PM By Rick Folbaum MIAMI (CBSMiami) — Community leaders gathered at a Miami synagogue Sunday during a special night remembering the victims of the Holocaust. “I lost my parents and …
It’s an event intended to recognize these women and offer respect for what they underwent. Reuters/HuffPost Their hair styled and make-up applied, a group of elderly women carefully take to a red carpet catwalk, waving, blowing kisses and posing for …
Holocaust Survivors Talk About Their Lives, Teaching Children, Forgiveness See full article with video here. Kathleen MeganContact Reporter Abraham Weiner doubts that words can really explain the horrors he experienced in the Nazi concentration camps during World War II. “There …
Shimon Redlich, 81, sees his childhood through a complicated prism – through the interplay between Jewish, Ukrainian and Polish relations in wartime Brzezany. As a Jew who survived the Holocaust in the formerly Polish, now Ukrainian town, Redlich’s own memories …
James Grover McDonald, left, a diplomat and the first U.S. Ambassador to Israel, in an undated photo Photo via Wikimedia Commons [http://bit.ly/2ffcCUS] By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register October 29, 2016 When the Holocaust was still a gleam in Adolf …
Not every historian gets portrayed by Rachel Weisz. Lipstadt hopes film, opening Thursday, clarifies for new generation that ‘Holocaust denial is not an opinion’ By Anne Joseph September 29, 2016, 12:34 am 1 LONDON — “Oh, I’m having a good …
Justice Five Things We Can Learn From Survivors of the Holocaust There are approximately 500,000 Holocaust survivors still alive. About 100,000 of them live in the United States. As they continue to age, we risk losing their stories. Holocaust survivors are living …
Naval Academy to honor Holocaust survivor for work with midshipmen Holocaust survivor Nesse Godin, of Silver Spring, holds a photo of her family as she tells the story of their extermination in the Holocaust at Congregation Kol Shalom in Annapolis. …
Cardiff woman honors Holocaust heritage Cardiff resident Corey Samuels (right) meets June 27 with a curator at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. (Courtesy photo) Pam KragenContact Reporter For the last 40 years of his life, Henry Oertelt …