This Holocaust Remembrance Day, We Must Remember Hate Spreads Faster Than COVID-19
Myra Goodman
April 17, 2020
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holocaust
Obama in Yom HaShoah message cites commitment to combat intolerance
Jewish Journal
April 8, 2013
President Obama in his Yom HaShoah message recalled his recommitment in Israel last month to combating anti-Semitism and intolerance.
Obama outlines Holocaust lessons
Jewish Journal
April 24, 2012
One by one, the e-mails from the White House arrived in inboxes across Washington on April 23, each highlighting a unique initiative toward a different corner of the globe: Syria. Iran. Uganda.
Three generations will march, witness, remember
Lee Barnathan
March 21, 2012
As the Germans marched toward the tiny French hamlet of Autrans, 10-year-old Eva Perlman (nee Gutmann) watched as an obviously frightened 17-year-old boy fled from a sawmill into the woods. The Germans shot him on sight.
It was 1942, and the boy wasn’t even Jewish, Perlman says.
Holocaust remembrance — Exodus redux
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
November 9, 2007
Over the last several years, in anticipation of the voyage\’s 60th anniversary, survivors of the Exodus have been asked to share their stories in an effort to solidify Exodus\’ place in history, before all that is left are the fictionalized and romanticized versions of the 1958 Leon Uris novel or the 1960 Otto Preminger film (and even those are already being forgotten). Among the recent projects are \”Exodus 1947,\” a 1997 documentary film by Venice resident Elizabeth Rodgers, and a new release of journalist Ruth Gruber\’s account of the voyage, \”Exodus 1947: The Ship that Launched a Nation\” (October 2007, Union Square Press).
Beyond Remembrance
David Suissa
April 27, 2007
So when I see hundreds of millions of dollars being poured into Holocaust memorials and Holocaust remembrance, I see an unspeakable tragedy for my people, yes, but I also see a missed opportunity. I see this enormous effort to tell us how Jews die, but so little effort to tell us how Jews live — more specifically, to tell us what is so extraordinary about this Judaism that those 6 million Jews died for.
Stark locations make perfect sets for ‘Anne Frank’ opera production
David Mermelstein
April 13, 2007
Now Long Beach Opera, a company known for its daring repertory and unconventional interpretations, is presenting the West Coast premiere of \”The Diary of Anne Frank,\” with three performances, from April 17 to 21 at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles and at Lincoln Park in Long Beach. (Congregation Kol Ami in West Hollywood will also present a semistaged performance on Yom HaShoah, April 15.)
Pledge to survivors — we will carry the torch
Menachem Z. Rosensaft
April 13, 2007
The responsibility for transmitting the survivors\’ legacy of remembrance into the future must now increasingly shift to us — their children and grandchildren.
Rites Mark Shoah, Camp Liberators
David Finnigan
May 12, 2005
Rain and clouds greeted Southern California\’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, while sunshine welcomed a gathering of World War II veterans and the Shoah survivors whom they liberated from concentration camps.
Yeladim
Abby Gilad
May 5, 2005
Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom HaShoah, fell this year on Thursday, May 5. Did your school honor the day? Quartz Hill High School, in the Antelope Valley, honors the Holocaust every year by putting on a competition for the best creative work.
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