Holocaust Remembrance

Holocaust Denial: Assaults On Collective Memory Becloud Europe's Future

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Holocaust, Europe, Genocide, Judaism, Holocaust Remembrance, Holocaust Denial, Holocaust Survivors, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Religion News

No crime in the annals of history has been as well documented as Nazi Germany's Final Solution. Against this backdrop, how do we account for the growing phenomenon of Holocaust revisionism and denial?

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Revealing Family Secrets

Aby Sam Thomas | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Second World War, Auschwitz, Italian Jews, Slidepollajax, Genocide, Holocaust Remembrance, Judaism, Holocaust, World War II, Slideexpand, Religion News

"We are leaving for the concentration camp, maybe the one in Carpi, Modena. Once I get there, if it is possible, I will write to you. We are all fine, and full of courage."

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PHOTOS: Stumbling Upon Memories

Aby Sam Thomas | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Holocaust, World War II, Slideexpand, Genocide, Judaism, Stolpersteine, Holocaust Remembrance, Religion News

Amid the grey cobblestones that line the narrow streets of this ancient city are some that seem to demand the attention of a passer-by. A closer look reveals that these cobblestones are, in fact, brass plated and each one has a small history lesson engraved on it.

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Obama To Speak At Holocaust Museum

AP | Posted 04.20.2012

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will mark the annual commemoration of the Holocaust during a speech Monday at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum ...

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Thoughts Born From Yom HaShoah 2012

Rabbi Ted Falcon | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom Hashoah, Holocaust, Holocaust Remembrance, Judaism, Religion News

There is no adequate way to embrace the horrors of annihilation, of the Jewish people and of so many others, during those terrible Nazi years. Beyond name though it might be, it is important to remember, not only for our own sake, but also for the world's.

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Never Again: Lessons to Take Away from Holocaust Remembrance Day

Kimberly Tan | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Holocaust, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Holocaust Remembrance, Teen News

Because many of the victims of the Holocaust are still unknown -- faceless and nameless -- it has become all too easy to brush off their stories and legacies as outliers in human history.

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Demanding Accountability In The 'Holocaust Torah Scrolls' Scam

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Holocaust Torah Scrolls, Menachem Youlus Torah Fraud, Holocaust Remembrance, Save a Torah, Judaism, Rabbi Menachem Youlus, Religion News

It remains to be seen whether Zitelman and others at Save a Torah who kept their heads in the sand long after evidence of Youlus' fraudulent scheme had become incontrovertible will ever offer a public apology for their role in this abomination.

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Writing Jews Out Of History: The Sounds Of Silence

Georgette Bennett, Ph.D. | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Holocaust, Rowan Williams, Judaism, Genocide, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Holocaust Remembrance, Rowan Williams Holocaust, Religion News

How does one commemorate the Holocaust and fail to mention the major group that was singled out for obliteration?

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The Legacy of Sugihara: How One Japanese Diplomat Saved My Grandfather From The Holocaust And Taught Me The Lesson Of Life

Mark B. Salomon | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Genocide, Interfaith, Judaism, Chiune Sugihara, Righteous Gentiles, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Holocaust Remembrance, Syria, Religion News

The courage to act, even when the world remains silent, is a powerful lesson. Sugihara was not alone; others acted to save lives, often at great personal risk or suffering the ultimate penalty of death.

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Where We Once Gathered: Lost Synagogues Of Europe

Andrea Strongwater | Posted 03.12.2012

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World War II saw the destruction of 6 million Jews, their lives, their homes and thousands of synagogues. I am telling a part of Jewish history that I have missed hearing: what came before the war.

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German Synagogue Opens On Pogrom Anniversary

AP | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: German Jews, Video, Nazi Germany, Kristallnacht, Holocaust Remembrance, Jews in Germany, Kristallnacht Anniversary, Kristallnacht Synagogue, Pogrom, New Kristallnacht Synagogue, Night of the Broken Glass, World War II, Night of Broken Glass, Kristalnacht, Religion News

BERLIN -- Germany's president has inaugurated a new synagogue on the anniversary of the 1938 Nazi anti-Jewish pogrom that was known as "Kristallnacht,...

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Considering Collective Responsibility Through The Lens Of Kristallnacht

Ariel Gros-Werter | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Kristallnacht, Kristallnacht 2011, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Holocaust, Mob Mentality, Peer Pressure, Night of Broken Glass, Nazi Germany, Judaism, Holocaust Remembrance, Religion News

Kristallnacht can be considered as more than a Holocaust remembrance day. It is a day to examine the larger repercussions of our actions, and the actions of the groups to which we belong.

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50th Anniversary Judgement at Nuremberg Screening at Academy Is Shattering!

Jay Weston | Posted 12.26.2011

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I came away from a 50th anniversary screening of Judgment at Nuremberg on Tuesday at the Motion Picture Academy with the feeling that nothing materially has changed in the world since that trial in 1947.

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True Heroes For Our Time And Beyond

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 07.21.2011

Read More: Chilean Miners, Luis Urzua, Navy Seals, Peter Bergson, Martin Meimoeller, Gyongyi Mago, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Simon Wiesenthal Valor Medal, Holocaust Remembrance, Neo-Nazis, Righteous Gentiles, Religion News

Let us teach our children about the valor of true heroes, whose strength of character and faith protect the memory of the past and inform the limitless potential of the future.

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Elie Wiesel On Holocaust Remembrance (VIDEO)

Posted 07.01.2011

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Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor and author of more than 50 books. He is most famous for Night, the autobiographical story of his experiences in th...

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Benevolent Capitalism is Changing The World

Auren Kaplan | Posted 05.25.2011

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As businesses continue to direct their resources for the good of people and planet, their efforts to use capitalism for the greater good are being met with success.

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day: VIDEO Of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's Address

Posted 05.25.2011

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day is being celebrated today around the world, 65 years after the Auschwitz camp was liberated. January 27 has...

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Kristallnacht 2008

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Auschwitz, Holocaust, Nazis, Hitler, Holocaust Remembrance, Germany, Kristallnacht, Politics News

Kristallnacht marked the beginning of what we now know as the Holocaust.

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