Following a legal fight, the family of Irma Klein last year finally got Dutch restitution officials to recognize that the Nazi occupation forced Klein to sell her Wassily Kandinsky …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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7/24/19
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A new documentary, “The Devil’s Confessions: The Lost Eichmann Tapes,” will allow viewers to hear Adolf Eichmann speak about his role in the Final Solution. The recordings …
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By Mitchell Bard, JNS
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8/3/22
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After World War II, Palestine Symphony Orchestra musicians who wanted nothing to do with their German-made instruments offered Moshe Weinstein an ultimatum.
Weinstein had trained as a violinist …
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By Bradley Martin of JNS, with The Jewish Star
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8/30/23
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After 70 years of studying the Holocaust, historians still don’t know the exact circumstances of the tragic fate that befell two of the best-known victims of the Holocaust era: Anne Frank and …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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10/10/17
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It was basically the complete opposite of what they expected.
A group of German Jews who fled Hitler and Nazi Germany, and who signed up to be American soldiers, wanted to exact revenge. Instead, …
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By Alan Zeitlin, JNS
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11/10/21
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Nostalgia for Jews is a well-documented phenomenon in Eastern Europe, with cultural and even substantial commercial aspects.
In Ukraine, so-called Jewish-themed restaurants compete for tourists, …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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8/17/17
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Last week, I found myself taking 45 middle schoolers on a four-hour bus ride to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. While they were certainly struck as they walked through the …
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By Ilyse Muser Shainbrown, Kveller via JTA
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2/15/17
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A rabbi in Toronto thought no one would show up in 13-degree weather for the funeral of a Holocaust survivor with virtually no family.
At 11 pm on the night before the noon funeral of Eddie Ford …
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By Marcy Oster
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2/6/19
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Curious George — that curious little monkey — is beloved by millions of readers around the world. His adventures with the Man With the Yellow Hat impart important life lessons amidst …
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By Gabe Friedman, JTA
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8/18/17
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The Canadian government has announced it will correct a memorial plaque at its new National Holocaust Monument, which spoke of the “millions of men, women and children during the …
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By Rafael Medoff
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10/10/17
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