Monday, April 8, 2013

Obama in Yom HaShoah message cites commitment to combat intolerance

JTA

President Obama in his Yom HaShoah message recalled his recommitment in Israel last month to combating anti-Semitism and intolerance.

Monday, April 8, 2013

Yom HaShoah: An eternal nation, bound together by our faith

by Frank Lowy

A few months after my bar mitzvah, my father disappeared. We didn’t know what had happened to him.

Monday, April 8, 2013

Yom HaShoah in Israel [SLIDESHOW]

Ceremony at Yad Vashem

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Survivor initiative to thrive on common cents

by Jared Sichel, Staff Writer

Sixty-eight years after being liberated from the horrors of the Holocaust, many aging survivors are living another nightmare — poverty without hope.

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

What happened at Belzec

by Alan Elsner

In the summer of 1993, my father and I visited the site of the extermination camp of Belzec in eastern Poland, where my grandparents were among half. . .

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Reliving the Holocaust

By Jane Ulman

"They’re going to come with the dogs. They’re going to start beating me.” Pola Lipnowski spoke in Yiddish, an expression of sheer terror on her. . .

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Rescuers of the ‘50 Children’

by Gerri Miller, Contributing Writer

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we honor those lost in the Shoah and the few who were saved through circumstance, luck or the efforts of courageous. . .

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

How the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum changed my life

By Michael Berenbaum

My daughter, Ilana, then a young college student, asked if she could go with me to the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, on. . .

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Boy Avenger

By Michael Berenbaum

I began reading Jonathan Kirsch’s “The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris”. . .

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Resistance and rescuers: Holocaust books for kids

by Lisa Silverman

When children approach their parents with inevitable questions about death, divorce, homosexuality or how babies are made, adults often turn to books. . .

Monday, April 1, 2013

Exhibit recalls Jewish refugees and Nazi prisoners held together in Canadian prisons

by Arno Rosenfeld, JTA

When Austrian and German Jews escaped Nazism by fleeing to Britain during the 1930s, the last thing they expected was to find themselves prisoners in. . .

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Thousands attend March of the Living in Auschwitz to honor Holocaust victims

by DPA, The Associated Press and Haaretz

Thousands of youth from Israel, the United States and other countries marched Thursday between Auschwitz and Birkenau, the two parts of Nazi. . .

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

An indelible film, ‘Shoah’ also reflects an extraordinary artist

By Rabbi David Wolpe

Surely the most unpromising premise for a film ever conceived is this: Nine and one half hours of people speaking in languages you do not understand. . .

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Self-styled historian seeks clues to Japan’s Holocaust survivors

By Elyse Glickman

Akira Kitade is a former Japanese tourism executive who still relishes the opportunity to show a newcomer the cultural sights of Tokyo. He also. . .

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Yom HaShoah 2012 events calendar

By Ryan Torok

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Conference to probe ethics of Holocaust studies, honor historian

By Tom Tugend

What are the moral and artistic limits faced by a novelist, filmmaker, historian or artist in depicting the Holocaust?

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Holocaust Remembrance Day Draws Crowds to Pan Pacific

By Jonah Lowenfeld

An estimated 2,000 people gathered on May 1 for Los Angeles’ annual commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day in Pan Pacific Park. The crowd,. . .

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Holocaust Book Reading Brings on Reunion and More

By Ryan Torok

Dina Frydman Balbien, 81, whose experiences in the Holocaust are told in a book written by her daughter, Tema N. Merback , wasn’t expecting to find. . .

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

World Memory Project on Holocaust Victims Calls for Information

JTA

The World Memory Project, which is set to build the world’s largest online database of information on victims of the Holocaust, has been launched.

Monday, May 2, 2011

U.S. Holocaust museum presenting roll call of victims

JTA

Holocaust survivors and members of the public are reading the names of Holocaust victims at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. The. . .

Sunday, May 1, 2011

From the Nuremberg and Eichmann trials, a challenge for today

By Sara J. Bloomfield

Sixty-five years ago at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, 22 defendants stood in the dock. They represented a cross-section. . .

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day

JTA

"Israel is the historical commemoration to the victims of the Holocaust," President Shimon Peres said at a Yad Vashem ceremony marking Yom Hashoah.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Israel taking matters into its own hands on Holocaust restitution

By Uriel Heilman, JTA

The Israeli government is firing a new salvo in the turf war over Holocaust restitution. Following years of complaints by survivors about opacity and. . .

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

The Whole Truth

By Jonathan Kirsch

On the occasion of Yom HaShoah, I can think of no more appropriate act of remembrance of the Holocaust than to reconsider the circumstances. . .