Our columnist visited the Museum of Jewish Heritage exhibit, “Operation Finale: The Capture and Trial of Adolf Eichmann.” She regrets only making it there on its final day, with three …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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1/24/18
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited a museum in Lithuania commemorating Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis during the Holocaust.
Abe visited …
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JTA
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1/19/18
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Nazis came for Rose Holm’s family in the afternoon. By the evening, the 16-year-old was lying among corpses in the underground bunker where she and her family …
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By Josefin Dolsten, JTA
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12/6/17
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AMSTERDAM — Henny Goudeketting, a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor, who was sterilized in Nazi medical experiments at Auschwitz, has neither children nor other relatives to care for her. Now, …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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12/6/17
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The Columbia Scholastic Press Association presented a Gold Medal to editors of the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls “Holocaust Journal,” produced by last year’s freshmen. …
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12/6/17
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Last month, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research made an astonishing announcement: the discovery of 170,000 Jewish documents thought to have been destroyed during …
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By Josefin Dolsten, JTA
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11/22/17
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A school district in Pennsylvania is investigating social media posts from students on a senior class trip that mocked exhibits at the U.S. Holocaust Museum.
Most of the students from the Forest …
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JTA
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11/8/17
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With history being rewritten to spin the Holocaust as just another bad day, and as political differences with the government of Israel provide anti-Semites with cover to spread the vilest of …
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By The Jewish Star
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11/8/17
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Stickers showing a doctored photo of Anne Frank wearing a German soccer team’s jersey appeared in Dusseldorf, Germany, a week after a similar incident in Rome.
Fans of the Borussia Dortmund …
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JTA
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11/1/17
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The upcoming 75th anniversary of Operation Torch, the Allies’ liberation of North Africa, has triggered discussions about the …
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By Rafael Medoff
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10/25/17
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