Holocaust Memorial DC

By Klaudia Klimek
Published on February 25, 2013

Report: Swiss kicked out Jews despite knowing of ‘final solution’

Published on January 28, 2013

The Swiss government knew about the Nazi program to wipe out Jews in 1942 -- earlier than previously known -- documents publicized by a Swiss television station suggest. A report aired by the German-language station SRF on Sunday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, said the government was aware of German leader Adolf Hitler’s extermination plan and the existence of German concentration camps as early as 1942, the year that Germany decided on its so-called “final solution” for the Jews.

A Blessing for Hitler? May His Memory Be Eradicated

By Pini Herman
Published on January 25, 2012

Britain giving $3.4 million to Auschwitz site preservation

Published on May 26, 2011

Britain will contribute about $3.4 million to help preserve the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp memorial.

Prince Harry visits Berlin Holocaust memorial

Published on December 20, 2010

Prince Harry of Great Britain visited the Holocaust memorial and museum while in Berlin for a children's charity benefit.

Holocaust memorial to be dedicated in Greece

Published on May 10, 2010

A memorial to Greek victims of the Holocaust is set to be unveiled in Athens.

Best street for a J-cation?  Fairfax!

Published on July 3, 2008

In a summer of rising airfares and gas prices, you need to take a trip that is close by, low cost, in town and that will fill you with Jewish stories. The best place to do that? Fairfax Avenue. The area's sidewalks, walls and parks remain populated with monuments, plaques, murals and statues of Jewish cultural and spiritual significance. Take a local J-cation.

Remember the Days of Remembrance

By Joel Geiderman
Published on April 12, 2007

The reason I tell this story is not to talk about me. Rather, it is to reflect on the greatness of this nation that has opened its arms to the Jewish people and to so many others. There is no other country in the world where this could happen. None. On Thursday, April 19, Yom HaShoah will again be marked by a ceremony in the Capitol rotunda. The day before, President Bush will pay a personal visit to our nation's Holocaust Memorial Museum. So in addition to lighting a yahrtzeit candle Saturday night, please remember to say a prayer and thank God for the privilege of living in this great land.

A ‘New Germany’

By Debra Isaacs
Published on April 19, 2001

Jewish leaders in the United States and in Israel are encouraging an openness to what they describe as a "new Germany," a place they say is truly atoning for its past. At the very least, they argue, it deserves the support of the American Jewish community because of its strong support of Israel and its embrace of Jewish immigrants who are streaming in at the rate of 10,000 per year.

Defending Greenberg

By Peter Ephross
Published on April 12, 2001

Rabbi Irving "Yitz" Greenberg has built a reputation as a man of letters, but not of the kind that have swirled around him lately.

In the latest volley in an escalating war of words, a majority of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council is defending Greenberg, the embattled council chair, against a campaign to unseat him over his role in the Marc Rich pardon scandal.