Holocaust Survivors

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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Germany Decides To Publish 'Mein Kampf,' Jews React

Posted 04.27.2012

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News that Adolf Hitler's racist manifesto, Mein Kampf (My Struggle) would be republished in Germany was met with mixed reactions from Jewish groups. ...

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Holocaust Remembrance Day: How You Can Help Preserve The Memory Of The Holocaust

The Huffington Post | Eleanor Goldberg | Posted 04.19.2012

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The horrific stories of the 6 million Jews who were gassed, starved and shot point blank throughout the Holocaust are well documented. But the number ...

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How This Miami Holocaust Survivor Is Working To Fight Terror

The Huffington Post | Christiana Lilly | Posted 05.09.2012

Writer and Holocaust survivor Elie Weisel once said, “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation...

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Writing the Holocaust

Eve Keller | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Holocaust, Holocaust Survivors, World War Two, The Holocaust, Holocaust Book, Wwii Book, Eve Keller, Holocaust Survivor, WWII Survivors, Millie Werber, Auschwitz, Books News

I sat on a pillowed bench in the Catskills. It was mid-July in the mountains: the trees were ridiculously green; the hummingbirds sipped sugar water. The prospect before me -- attempting Millie's experience at Auschwitz -- it seemed simply absurd.

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Oldest Holocaust Survivor On What Gave Her Hope

Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Book News, Oldest Holocaust Survivor, World War II Books, Music Books, World War 2 Books, Music World War 2, Holocaust, World War 2 Music, World War 2, Holocaust Survivors, World War II, World War 2 Hope, Music Hope, Video, Books News

The following is excerpted from "Alice’s Piano" by Melissa Müller [St. Martin's, $26.99]: ‘Practise the Chopin Études, they will save you.’...

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How We Sugarcoat The Holocaust

Alan Elsner | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: The Holocaust, Anne Frank, Holocaust Survivors, Judaism, Torah, Shoah, Menachem Youlus Torah Fraud, Holocaust Torah Scrolls, Rabbi Menachem Youlus, Religion News

A sad story approached a sad conclusion last week when a rabbi pleaded guilty to fraud for falsely selling what he claimed were Torah scrolls rescued from the Holocaust to synagogues and Jewish communities.

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Newt... One Toke Over the Line

Tom Gerdy | Posted 04.06.2012

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Sometimes in life, we have to laugh to keep from crying. I was hit with one of those moments when I heard the now infamous "kosher meal" robocall from...

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Two Cultures, Two Genocides, One Story

Bernard Starr | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Rwanda Genocide, Rwanda, The Holocaust, Rwandan Genocide, Holocaust Survivors, Holocaust Museum, David Gewirtzman and Jacqueline Murekatete, Culture News

David's harrowing memories from Eastern Europe at the hands of the Nazis and Jacqueline's genocide experiences in Rwanda, although more than half a century apart, are hauntingly similar.

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The Miracle of Jewish Recovery After the Holocaust: The DP Camp Story

Bernard Starr | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: The Holocaust, Internally Displaced Persons, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Holocaust Survivors, Displaced Persons Camps, Holocaust Museum, u.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Culture News

For survivors, of course, the memories and scars never fade. But there's another side of the story: In the aftermath of the Holocaust, an extraordinary drama of resiliency, rebirth and renewal took place in Austria and Germany: the creation of the Displaced Persons camps.

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After 66 Years, Holocaust Survivor Reunites With Her Rescuers For Thanksgiving

HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 11.23.2011

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NEW YORK -- It's been 66 years since Mary Katz Erlich last saw the boy and girl who saved her life. Egle and Aurimas Ruzgys were teens in Lithuania...

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Life Is Prayer During The Days Of Awe

Cheryl Pearl Sucher | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Judaism, Rosh Hashanah Reflection, Jewish Prayer, Holocaust Survivors, Days of Awe, Jewish High Holidays, Prayer, Day of Repentance, Religion News

For 10 days a year, I try to live my life as a prayer. I reflect on infinity, aware, as the psalmists, that life is a grain of sand and that I am powerless before the world.

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University Of Denver Dedicates Holocaust Memorial Social Action Site

Rothwell Polk | Posted 11.21.2011

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The memorial is about remembering the Holocaust and the evils perpetrated against the Jewish people and others. It is also about remembering the events and circumstances that led to that horrific event.

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Holocaust Denial Pages Can Stay Says Facebook

Posted 09.27.2011

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Earlier this month, 21 Holocaust survivors affiliated with the Simon Wiesenthal Center issued a plea to Facebook asking them to deny access to anyone ...

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Ephemera and Experience: Ori Gersht

Posted 08.30.2011

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Israeli artist Ori Gersht has two new shows at Angles Gallery in Los Angeles, which both examine cultural heritage and memory. "Falling Petals" examin...

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Students Use Social Networking, Newspapers To Reunite Holocaust Survivors

Posted 07.16.2011

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While most students learn about Nazi Germany through books and movies, Naperville, Ill. middle schoolers have done real detective work to reunite two ...

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A Day For Holocaust Remembrance

Posted 06.28.2011

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Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, is the official Israeli commemoration of the 6 million Jews murdered in Nazi Germany during World War II. Yom ...

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Super Winners Have No Score To Settle

Harvey Gotliffe, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Japanese American Internment, San Jose, President Roosevelt, Final Solution, Holocaust, Wannsee Conference, Executive Order 9066, Japanese Americans, World War II, Holocaust Survivors, Super Bowl, Super Bowl 2011, Politics News

Two life-altering events that took place nearly seven decades ago receive little attention and are primarily observed by members of the two groups who experienced them.

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Holocaust Remembrance: Who Owns Memory?

Brad Hirschfield | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the absence of actual Holocaust survivors, survivors who are fixtures at virtually all remembrance ceremonies, the challenge of memory falls fully on our shoulders.

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The Last Train to Auschwitz

Dorian de Wind | Posted 05.25.2011

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Louis de Wind, a Dutch Jew, then quickly puts the two-page letter into an envelope, addresses it to his wife and, through a slit in the door of the train, pushes the letter out of the wagon, hoping that someone will find it.

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Congress and Caring for Holocaust Survivors

William Daroff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Holocaust Survivors, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Congress, Jewish Federations of North America, Rep. Frank Wolf, Politics News

As we light the candles of Chanukah, all Americans should be heartened by a vote taken in the House of Representatives that shines a light on the needs of one of the most vulnerable populations in our nation.

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Fraud Scheme Swindles $42M From Holocaust Survivors Fund

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Two funds created to provide relief for cash-strapped Holocaust survivors were raided for more than $42 million with the help of seve...

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Stealing From the Dying: The Horror of Holocaust Fraud

Richard Z. Chesnoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Holocaust Survivors, Claims Conference, Fbi, Israel, Holocaust, Jewish, Conference on Jewish Material Claims, Holocaust Scam, Holocaust Fraud, World News

The Justice Department has just announced that more than $40 million in funds earmarked for aid to needy and aging survivors of the Nazi Holocaust have instead been stolen.

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Nazi War Criminal Allowed To Leave House Arrest In Italy

AP | VICTOR L. SIMPSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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ROME — Jewish groups expressed outrage Wednesday that a former Nazi SS captain convicted for his role in the massacre of 335 civilians in Italy ...

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Just Say 'No' to Your Mobile Device

Joseph Satto | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Iphone, Blackberry, Holocaust Survivors, Mobile Technology, Relationships, Face-to-Face, The Balanced Life, Peta, Healthy Living News

Mobile technology has made 'connectivity' easier but has made the simple ability to sustain live and meaningful exchange more difficult.

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