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Due to the potential impact of COVID-19 on public health, the Thaler Holocaust Memorial Fund has cancelled our event with Michael Bornstein and Debbie Holinstat. We hope to reschedule their appearance at an appropriate time later this year or next …
The gathering marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis’ most notorious death camp, Auschwitz. Britain’s Prince Charles meets Israel President Reuven Rivlin at his official residence in Jerusalem, on Thursday. Victoria Jones / APJan. 23, 2020, 5:25 AM …
BBC NEWS January 5 2020 A Jewish teenager avoided death in occupied France thanks to the kindness and bravery of a doctor in a small Alpine resort. But it’s a story local people seem reluctant to remember, Rosie Whitehouse discovers. …
By Keren BlankfeldThe New York Timesdecember 8th, 2019 The first time he spoke to her, in 1943, by the Auschwitz crematory, David Wisnia realized that Helen Spitzer was no regular inmate. Zippi, as she was known, was clean, always neat. She …
By Nina ShapiroSeattle Times staff reporter Laureen Nussbaum pulled a 76-year-old diary off a bookshelf in her Wallingford apartment. When her German refugee family lived in the Netherlands during the Nazi occupation, they took turns writing in it. “Finis — Antisemitismus!!” her father …
Melpomeni Dina was reunited with the two surviving members and 40 descendants of the Jewish family she and her sisters helped escape occupied Greece during World War II. By Iliana MagraThe New York TimesNov. 5, 2019 Sarah Yanai, an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor, clutched …
A recent call by a minister in Sudan’s new government for Jewish people to return to the country and reclaim citizenship has shone a light on a small but once-thriving community. Oral historian Daisy Abboudi, herself descended from Sudanese Jews, …
By Richard GoldsteinJuly 7thThe New York Times Eva Kor survived the sadistic pseudoscientific medical experiments carried out on twins at the Auschwitz death camp. She dedicated herself decades later to telling of the Holocaust horrors spawned by religious and racial hatred, …
Hundreds pack Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center to celebrate survivors and those who saved them By JEFF MCDONALD, LAURYN SCHROEDERAPRIL 28, 2019 6:24 PM Holocaust survivors and their descendants have told their stories over the past seven decades, sharing the terrible miseries inflicted …