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The Holocaust

Ominous Clouds Hover Once Again Over Europe

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 04.24.2013 | World
Read More: Ronald Lauder, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Wladislaw Bartoszewski, Anne Frank, German National Democratic Party, Jobbik, Golden Dawn, Bergen-Belsen, Miep Gies, Holocaust Remembrance, Greece, Neo-Nazis, Genocide, The Holocaust, Philipp Roesler, Hungary, World News
Menachem Rosensaft

Sixty-eight years after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, 68 years after the end of the Holocaust, we may not ignore a disturbing resurgence of racist and neo-fascist political groups in at least three countries that belong to both the European Union and NATO.

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Janet Tobias's No Place on Earth Portrays Strength of a Woman Surviving the Holocaust

Justine Browning | Posted 04.21.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: The Holocaust, Jewish Culture, Documentary, Janet Tobias, No Place on Earth, Holocaust Remembrance Day, No Place on Earth Movie Review, Holocaust Survivors, Entertainment News
Justine Browning

No Place on Earth offers an enthralling portrait of survival during the Holocaust. Directed by the accomplished Janet Tobias, the moving documentary is unlike previous films that have tackled the same subject matter.

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Unlikely Heroes

Steven Pressman | Posted 04.08.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Holocaust, The Holocaust, HBO Documentaries, Documentary, 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. And Mrs. Kraus, Hbo, Holocaust Survivors, Entertainment News
Steven Pressman

A Jewish couple sat in their elegant dining room and charted a daring mission that, nearly 75 years later, sounds like a far-fetched movie plot. In April 1939, they sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, bound for Nazi Germany and determined to rescue 50 Jewish children from Vienna and bring them to safety to the U.S.

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Reflections On The Holocaust

Deborah J. Levine | Posted 04.07.2013 | Religion
Read More: Leadership, Holocaust, Holocaust Deniers, Make a Difference, Jewish, The Holocaust, Interfaith, World War II, Making a Difference, Veterans, Religion News
Deborah J. Levine

I will light that candle for my father on Holocaust Remembrance Day not just to honor his memory, but in greater understanding that I, too, was there.

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What a Group of Families Surviving 511 Days Underground Can Teach Us All

Janet Tobias | Posted 04.08.2013 | Impact
Read More: No-Place-on-Earth-Movie-Review, The Holocaust, No Place on Earth Movie Review, Holocaust, Hope, Holocaust Survivors, No Place on Earth, Impactx, Video, Impact News
Janet Tobias

No Place On Earth let the group of us who made the film -- our film family -- touch, taste and in very low light see the the power of the human spirit, the power of family, friendship, and a village underground.

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On Holocaust Memorial Day, Re-Imagining the Shoah

Abraham H. Foxman | Posted 04.04.2013 | Religion
Read More: Anti-Semitism, Shoah, Anti-Defamation League, Yom Hashoah, Holocaust, Nazis, Hitler, Anne Frank, The Holocaust, World War II, Abraham Foxman, Religion News
Abraham H. Foxman

One of the most disturbing and paradoxically important questions to arise out of the ashes of the Holocaust is not so much the question of why six million Jews and millions of others were systematically annihilated, but the question of "what if... ?"

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Learning From the Past; Teach Your Children Well

Linda Novick O'Keefe | Posted 04.02.2013 | Impact
Read More: Dinnertime, Family-Cooking, The Great Depression, Hate Crimes, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Learning Life Lessons, Early Learning, Life Lessons, Raising Children, Jewish Culture, Concentration Camp, Children Life Lessons, Learning Matters, Synagogue, Life Lesson, Holocaust Remembrance, Nazis, Jewish, Hate Crime, Family, Great Depression, Family Dinners, Healthy Food, Chef Art Smith, Holocaust, Holocaust Survivors, Martin Luther King Jr., United States, Parenting, Art Smith, Family Meals, Religion, Family Dinner, Family Memories, Martin Luther King, Cooking, Nazi Party, The Holocaust, Food, Healthy Foods, Martin Luther King Day, Schools, Children's Health, Impact News
Linda Novick O'Keefe

There are many lessons to be learned in moments from our pasts. Teach your children well and remember that food can be your tool.

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PHOTOS: The Survivors

Posted 03.10.2013 | New York
Read More: Video, US-Holocaust-Memorial-Museum, Holocaust, Holocaust Survivors, Holocaust Report, NY Around Town, The Holocaust, New York Around Town, US Holocaust Memorial Museum 20th Anniversary, US Holocaust Memorial Museum Nyc, New York News

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's 20th Anniversary tour of the country stopped in NYC last weekend. Some 2,500 people, many of them Holoca...

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When a Good Artist Turns Nazi Sympathizer

Phil Campbell | Posted 05.13.2013 | Arts
Read More: Charles Krafft, Art, Irony, Nazis, The Holocaust, Charles Krafft Nazi, Scandal, Death, Arts News
Phil Campbell

The idea driving this kind of art, was that Krafft was a provocateur taking on some of the most difficult themes in art with a sly, shifting lens of irony, scorn, and humor. No one ever considered the possibility that Krafft's more controversial works of art were in any way, well, sincere.

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On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Remembering Also the Sacrifices of Those Who Tried to Stop It

Gregory C. Pappas | Posted 03.29.2013 | World
Read More: The Holocaust, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Greece, Greek Heroes, Holocaust Heroes, Holocaust Greece, Holocaust Remembrance, World News
Gregory C. Pappas

On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, in addition to paying tribute to those who perished, let's also honor and praise those who saved lives and provided hope.

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Remembering Those Who Had Courage to Care

Abraham H. Foxman | Posted 03.18.2013 | World
Read More: Rescue, Anti-Semitism, Adl, Holocaust, Anti-Defamation League, United Nations, UN Holocaust Rescuers, Schindler's List, The Holocaust, World War II, World News
Abraham H. Foxman

Aside from Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, which in 1993 so greatly elevated public awareness of one rescuer in particular, the stories of the righteous gentiles who stepped up to make a profound, life-altering choice have been largely forgotten to history.

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You've Got a Friend

Judith Greenberg, Ph.D. | Posted 03.18.2013 | Women
Read More: Gender Stereotypes, Gender-Construction, Childhood Friendships, Women and Friendship, Women's Issues, Friending, Cousins, Facebook, Friendship, Gender Spectrum, Early Childhood Development, Social Media, Interfaith Friendships, Glbt, Aristotle, The Holocaust, Jews in Poland, Best Friends, Women News
Judith Greenberg, Ph.D.

No photo, witty posting or apt political cartoon can match sitting on a park bench with a friend. No amount of clicking "like" stands in for keeping me company before a scary mammogram. Friends take that seat next to you so you don't sit alone.

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WATCH: Couple Falls In Love At Nazi Camp, Reunites After 60 Years

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 10.31.2012 | Good News
Read More: Concentration Camp Escape, Nazi Germany, Nazi, Holocaust, Slovakia, Nazis, Australia, Thomas Beck, Edith Greiman, The Holocaust, Budapest, Concentration Camp, Hungary, Good News News

At age 15 in 1944, Thomas Beck escaped over the wall of a Nazi concentration camp in Budapest with one regret. He was leaving behind Edith Greiman, a ...

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In New Film, an Eccentric Genius Outwits the Nazis and Creates an Orchestra

Erica Abeel | Posted 12.31.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: The Holocaust, Arturo Toscanini, Bronislaw Huberman, Itzhak Perlman, Zubin Mehta, Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of Exiles, Josh Aronson, Entertainment News
Erica Abeel

Orchestra of Exiles chronicles the course of Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman, from his years as a child prodigy to the most celebrated fiddler in Europe at a moment when the Nazis were taking over the continent.

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LGBT History Month Icon Of The Day: Pierre Seel

The Huffington Post | JR Tungol | Posted 10.21.2012 | Gay Voices
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In 1941, a 17-year-old Pierre Seel was arrested and imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp for being gay. Seel, who grew up in Mulhouse, France ne...

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We Are Still Here: Evan Kleinman's Documentary About the Third Generation of Holocaust Survivors

Judy Bolton-Fasman | Posted 10.31.2012 | Arts
Read More: The Holocaust, Third-Generation-Jews, Holocaust Survivors Documentary, Jewish History, Holocaust Survivors, Jewish History Holocaust, Arts News
Judy Bolton-Fasman

Although Kleinman's film records his particular legacy trip -- a return to his roots with his father, mother and younger sister -- it's a universal home movie. The message of the film is that every Jew survived the Holocaust.

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Erotic And Egalitarian: Beyond Trauma

Rabbi Arthur Waskow | Posted 10.09.2012 | Religion
Read More: Jewish Holidays, Naqba, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Holocaust, Jewish, The Holocaust, Jewish Culture, Racism, Jewish Renewal, Judaism, Religion News
Rabbi Arthur Waskow

How does a whole community, a whole culture, get beyond trauma? Perhaps the Jewish wisdom of this very day can point in that direction.

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Last Known Gay Jewish Holocaust Survivor Dies At 88

Posted 06.25.2012 | Gay Voices
Read More: The Holocaust, Gad Beck Holocaust, Video, World War II Veterans, Holocaust, World War II, Concentration Camp, Gad Beck, Gay Voices News

Gad Beck, the last known gay Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, died June 24 in a German senior citizens' home. The Jerusalem Post reports that Bec...

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Kissinger and Human Rights: An "Indifferent, Callous, and Perhaps Even Hostile" Record

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 08.15.2012 | Politics
Read More: Shimon Peres, Colin Powell, Henry Kissinger, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Cordell Hull, The Holocaust, Hillary Clinton, Gregory Wallance, Barack Obama, Politics News
Menachem Rosensaft

Two 20th century Secretaries of State, Henry Kissinger and Cordell Hull, both of whom were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, belong in the category of stewards of American foreign policy who did not make the safeguarding of human rights a priority.

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The "Polish Death Camps" Uproar: Unwarranted Outrage When a Simple Correction Would Have Sufficed

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 08.04.2012 | Politics
Read More: Donald Tusk, Poland During World War II, Obama Polish Death Camp, Treblinka, President Barack Obama, The Holocaust, Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camp, Jan Karski, Radek Sikorski, Majdanek, Poland, World War II, World War Two, Politics News
Menachem Rosensaft

The Polish officials' harsh condemnation of President Obama's unintentional reference to the camp as Polish rather than German or Nazi was not just over the top but petty, especially since the President was hardly the first to make such a mistake.

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Missing Maurice Sendak

Brad Hirschfield | Posted 07.08.2012 | Religion
Read More: Bible, Holocaust, American Judaism, Children's Books, Judaism, The Holocaust, Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak, Hebrew Bible, Death & Dying, Jewish Books, Religion News
Brad Hirschfield

Sendack knew that we should never pretend about the potential danger of human rampaging, but neither should we lose hope about the possibility of returning home. We don't, as Reb Maurice teaches, escape to a better place, as much as we return to where we came from.

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Madeleine Albright’s Prague Winter Reveals Family Secrets (EXCERPT)

| | Posted 04.30.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Madeleine Albright Religion, Madeleine Albright Secretary of State, Video, Prague Winter, Prague Winter Excerpt, Madeleine Albright Catholic, The Holocaust, Family Secrets, Madeleine Albright Jewish, Czechoslovakia, Václav Havel, Madeleine Albright, Fifty News

What does it feel like to be told your entire perception of your family and your childhood was wrong? Madeleine Albright, former U.S. secretary of sta...

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Why is This Generation Different From All Other Generations?

Michelle E. Goldberg | Posted 06.27.2012 | College
Read More: The Holocaust, Memory, History, Jewish History, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Crimes Against Humanity, Elie Weisel, College News
Michelle E. Goldberg

My plight is different than that of my mother's, the daughter of the survivor. I am part of an emerging group. I am a third generation Holocaust survivor.

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French Plumber Claims To Be Hitler's Grandson

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 04.17.2012 | World
Read More: Weird Nazis, Hitler, Hitler's Children, Hitler's Mistress, World War Two, The Holocaust, Poll, Hitler's Illegitimate Children, Adolf Hitler, World War II, Adolf Hitler Love Children, World News

Forty years ago, Philippe Loret's father, Jean-Marie, told his son and six other children some shocking news: that they were the grandchildren of Adol...

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Writing the Holocaust

Eve Keller | Posted 06.05.2012 | Books
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
Eve Keller

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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