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Historians Race Clock To Collect Holocaust Survivor Stories

Posted 04.22.2012

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By Meredith Mandell USA Today JERUSALEM (RNS) Zvi Shefel recalled the day the German army arrived at his Polish town of Slonim in the summer of 19...

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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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PHOTOS: Israel Honors 6 Million Victims Of Nazi Holocaust

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 04.19.2012

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JERUSALEM — Israelis flocked to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial Thursday to read the names of loved ones who perished at the hands of the Nazi...

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PHOTOS: Israelis Gather For Holocaust Memorial Day

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 04.19.2012

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JERUSALEM — Israel's president told of his own family's suffering at the hands of the Nazis in World War II, speaking at the Wednesday opening o...

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U.S. Mogul Makes Holocaust Memorial's Largest Private Donation Ever

AP | Posted 12.07.2011

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JERUSALEM -- Israel's official Holocaust memorial says it has received its largest private donation ever – a $25 million gift from U.S. casino m...

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Lost Cousins Unite Through Holocaust Database

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 01.17.2012

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JERUSALEM — For five long years during World War II, Nahum Korenblum never left the side of his younger brother Yaakov as the two fled the Nazi ...

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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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Veteran Accused Of Fabricating Parts Of Auschwitz Heroics Story

Yahoo! News | Mike Collett | Posted 06.26.2011

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LONDON (Reuters) – A British World War Two veteran and his publisher have defended his account of smuggling himself into Auschwitz concentration cam...

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Google Launches Holocaust Archive

Posted 05.25.2011

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To coincide with International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27), Google and Yad Vashem, an Israeli museum established in the 1950s to preserve t...

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Righteous Among The Nations: Muslims Who Saved Jews From Holocaust

Posted 05.25.2011

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By Tim Townsend St. Louis Post-Dispatch ST. LOUIS (RNS) In 2003, Norman Gershman was looking for some of the righteous. What he found astonished ...

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Holocaust Survivor Donates Hidden Jewelry To Memorial

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 05.25.2011

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JERUSALEM — As a slave laborer in Auschwitz, Meyer Hack was forced to sort through the tattered clothing stripped off inmates before they were s...

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Yad Vashem Fires Employee Who Compared Holocaust To Palestinians' Plight

Haaretz | Yoav Stern | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yad Vashem has fired an instructor who compared the trauma of Jewish Holocaust survivors with the trauma experienced by the Palestinian people in Isr...

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Auschwitz Tattoos Reunite Lost Inmates

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 05.25.2011

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JERUSALEM — As terrified teenagers 65 years ago, Menachem Sholowicz and Anshel Sieradzki stood in line together in Auschwitz, having serial numb...

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Jewish Leaders Condemn Nazi Imagery At Gaza Rallies

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 05.25.2011

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JERUSALEM — The use of Nazi imagery at recent anti-Israel demonstrations across Europe has fanned the flames of anti-Semitism and incited violen...

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