With the advent of the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, I will dedicate the next two reviews to the history of Holocaust tragedies, as they relate to us and our children.
This week I am …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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10/29/18
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — All over the world, Holocaust commemoration events follow a certain protocol. Somber affairs where participants dress in dark colors, they might feature a soulful …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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10/29/18
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When German air force pilots took aerial photographs of western Ukraine in 1941, they did it to help Nazi Germany defeat the Soviet Union in a war that saw the genocide of 6 million Jews.
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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10/4/18
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A former guard at a Nazi concentration camp was deported to Germany this week from Jackson Heights, Queens, where he had lived for decades.
Jakiw Palij, 95, served as a guard at the Trawniki …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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8/23/18
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I don’t recall when I first heard about the Stolpersteine, but once I did, I knew that it would be my mission to have them installed in front of my grandparent’s home in Berlin.
A few …
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By Leba Sonneberg of North Woodmere
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8/8/18
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In the Trump era, even the deporting of Nazis can’t bring Americans together.
A number of Jewish organizations and lawmakers were quick to thank the Trump administration for deporting Jakiw …
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By Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
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8/23/18
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It’s never wise to get into an argument about the Holocaust with Yad Vashem.
That’s the moral of the story of Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempt to resolve a quarrel with …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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7/11/18
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“History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.” —Erik Qualman
Last month, we had the opportunity to delve deeper into the devastating truths of the Holocaust. …
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Commentary by Gila and Adam Milstein
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7/11/18
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This week’s column presents the foreword to the new edition of Rabbi Hanoch Teller’s classic, “Heroic Children: Untold Stories of the Unconquerable.” During the Three Weeks, …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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7/3/18
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North Woodmere resident Bernard Igielski fulfilled a lifelong dream by meeting a relative of Dr. Berthold Epstein, the man who saved his life four times in Auschwitz.
More than 70 people gathered …
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By Jeffrey Bessen and Dena Gershkovich Nassau Herald
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6/28/18
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