Eva Heyman is an energetic 13-year-old Jewish girl with a bright smile. Go to her Instagram page and you’ll see selfies of the brown-haired teen with her best friends, videos she filmed while …
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By Josefin Dolsten, JTA
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5/8/19
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Midwinter break gives both students and teachers the chance to travel to all sorts of exotic places. This year, Rabbi Gedaliah Oppen …
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2/8/17
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In July 1939, eight months after Kristallnacht and seven weeks before Hitler would invade Poland, Congress killed a bill that would have allowed 20,000 Jewish refugee children into the United …
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By Ben Sales, JTA
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8/13/19
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In July 1943, Renia Kukielka boarded a train from Warsaw to Bedzin with 22 false visas sewn into her skirt. During the inspection, she “bravely opened her packs,” maintaining eye …
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By Lori Weintrob
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8/5/21
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On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, a public high school in the Austrian capital corrected its own historical record.
Along with a memorial to World War II soldiers, the Gymnasium …
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By Toby Axelrod, JTA
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5/8/19
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It’s been 81 years since Kristallnacht (“Night of Broken Glass”), when Nazis torched synagogues, vandalized thousands of Jewish homes, schools and businesses, and killed nearly 100 …
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By Eliana Rudee, JNS
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11/14/19
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On his first visit to the Auschwitz memorial museum, 17-year-old Armando Broja already knew a fair amount about the Holocaust.
The Jewish genocide is taught in schools in …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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5/8/19
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In the wake of the Hamas terror attacks on Oct. 7, people searching for historical antecedents sometimes cited Kristallnacht, the “night of broken glass” in Germany on Nov. 9 and 10, …
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By Ed Weintrob
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11/16/23
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The time is just after the defeat of Nazi Germany. Two Orthodox Jews disembark from a train at a rural station in Soviet-occupied Hungary and, after offloading a heavy bag, they begin a silent, …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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10/25/17
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In a study published in the Journal of Travel Research last year, scholars from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign found that a visit to the Illinois Holocaust Museum …
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By Menachem Wecker, JNS
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3/1/23
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