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| June 6, 2013
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Iranians ‘embarrassed by ignorance’ after meeting Holocaust survivors

Young Iranians now living in UK listen to stories of Holocaust survivors, tell about their childhoods, being indoctrinated to hate Israel. ‘We have no real way to influence Iranian gov’t, but we can pass on these stories we heard here.’

By Ahiya Raved

Fifteen young men and women of Iranian descent who now live in Britain met on Tuesday in Haifa with Holocaust survivors and heard, for the first time in their lives, stories about life in the concentration camps and life in the ghettos.

סיפורי הניצולים ודמעות האיראנים (צילום: אבישג שאר-ישוב)

Emotional meeting – Photo: Avishag Shaar-Yashuv

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| June 1, 2013
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New French museum honors rescuers of WWII Jews

The museum will commemorate at least 35 residents who, according to Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, prevented the pro-Nazi Vichy gov’t from deporting & murdering some 5,000 Jews.

By JTA

 

PARIS — A French town where dozens of residents saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust will open a museum to commemorate the rescuers’ actions.

Chambon-sur-Lignon. (LMFL)

Chambon-sur-Lignon. (LMFL)

The Memory of Chambon museum is scheduled to open its doors on June 5 in Chambon-sur-Lignon, 70 miles south of Lyon in southern France, according to the French news agency AFP.

The new museum will commemorate the actions of at least 35 residents who, according to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, prevented French authorities under the pro-Nazi Vichy government from deporting and murdering approximately 5,000 Jews. Continue Reading »

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| May 29, 2013
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Germany adds $800 million for home care to remaining Holocaust survivors

The announcement of additional funding comes amid controversy over revelations related to a bungled investigations in 2001, that failed to detect a fraud at the Holocaust restitution organization.

By Uriel Heilman

 

NEW YORK (JTA) – The German government agreed to significantly expand its funding of home care for infirm Holocaust survivors and relax eligibility criteria for restitution programs to include Jews who spent time in so-called open ghettos.

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German officials lay a wreath at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem as Claims Conference officials look on, May 23, 2013. – Photo: Sasson Tiram

The agreement, reached after negotiations in Israel with the Claims Conference, will result in approximately $800 million in new funding for home care for Holocaust survivors from 2014 to 2017.

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| May 20, 2013
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15 yr-old submits a ‘Holocaust denial’ report called Holohoax, & gets an ‘A’

Unique Visitors: 2,787

American educator gives an ‘A’ for a report that includes comments like this: “The Germans were against typhus, which was the real reason for shaving heads, fumigating buildings, and cremating corpses.”

By Martin Hill

 

A 15-year-old girl from Southern California who attends a public high school tells the story of how she recently became aware of questions concerning the holocaust. After hearing the establishment’s version of the ‘shoah’ in her history class for weeks along with persistent rumors that Obamacare included provisions for microchipping all Americans, she was very upset at all the frightening and traumatizing details. Continue Reading »

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| May 4, 2013
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American Mom contends Anne Frank’s Diary is ‘pornographic’

U.S. woman submits formal complaint to the Northville school district in Michigan, claiming ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’, containing a Jewish girl’s thoughts & experiences during the Holocaust, is ‘inappropriate for 7th graders’.

By Ashley Baylen (from Shalom Life)

 

 

“The Diary of Anne Frank” has been an important part of the curriculum in North American classrooms since its initial publication in 1947. The candid diaries share the young Jewish girl’s thoughts and experiences while hiding from Nazis during their occupation of the Netherlands.

Anne Frank - Archive Photo

Anne Frank – Archive Photo

Until now, the memoirs have served as a powerful educational tool, teaching children about World War II and the Holocaust from the perspective of a girl their age. Continue Reading »

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| April 9, 2013
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In Holocaust Day message, U.S. President promises to combat intolerance


President Barack Obama says that on this day we must ‘commit ourselves to the understanding, empathy & compassion that is the foundation of peace & human dignity.’

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U.S. President Barack Obama, in his Yom Hashoah message, recalled his recommitment in Israel last month to combating anti-Semitism and intolerance.

Obama at Yad Vashem.

Obama pausing for a moment as he lays a wreath during his visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, March 22, 2013. – Photo: Reuters

 

“Today, we honor the memories of the 6 million Jewish victims and millions of others who perished in the darkness of the Shoah,” Obama said Monday in a message timed for Holocaust Remembrance Day. Continue Reading »

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| April 8, 2013
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Arab Youth Discuss Holocaust’s Impact After Visiting Poland

Scores of Israeli Arab youths in the National Service participated in a Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony, then discussed the sad events and its relevance to Israeli Arabs.

By David Lev

Dozens of Arab youths in the National Service (Sherut Le’umi), who serve as counselors in the No’ar Oved Ve’lomed youth group (associated with the Labor Party), participated in a Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony on Sunday night. After the ceremony, the youths discussed the importance of the Holocaust to the Jewish people – and its relevance to Israeli Arabs.

Israeli youth at Auschwitz

Israeli youth at Auschwitz – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

Many of the youths had recently returned from a trip to Poland, where they visited the concentration camps and learned first-hand about the Holocaust. Continue Reading »

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| April 7, 2013
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IDF officers in Auschwitz: ‘Witnesses in uniform’

 

 

Members of Israel’s IDF delegation visit concentration camps, meet with German soldiers to discuss Judaism, politics, Islam in Europe. Major Rabinstein, ‘We had to salute while German anthem was playing; this was not easy’. 

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit

 

Unique delegations of IDF officers, dubbed “Witnesses in Uniforms,” continue to fly to Europe. These delegations consist of some 180 IDF officers from various units, including reservists. The delegations visit the concentration and death camps, the ghettos and the old communities of the destroyed European Jewry.

‘Completely different experience.’ Auschwitz – Photo: Reuters

These trips are preceded by extensive studying and preparation that the delegation members undergo, including a tour of Yad Vashem. Continue Reading »

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| March 2, 2013
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Nazis Murdered FAR MORE JEWS than 6 Million

When the research began in 2000, Dr. Megargee said he expected to find perhaps 7,000 Nazi camps and ghettos, based on postwar estimates. But the numbers kept climbing — first to 11,500, then 20,000, then 30,000, and now 42,500.

 

THIRTEEN years ago, researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum began the grim task of documenting all the ghettos, slave labor sites, concentration camps and killing factories that the Nazis set up throughout Europe.

A group of Jewish women at the entrance to the Brody ghetto in Eastern Galicia, 1942. The sign is written in German, Ukrainian and Polish.

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| February 24, 2013
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3 Books of Esther Survived the Holocaust from Warsaw Ghetto

Just in time for Purim, Shem Olam Institute presents holy items found in Warsaw Ghetto attic decades after surviving the Holocaust

By Kobi Nahshoni

 

Three Books of Esther kept in the attic of a house in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II have been returned to Jewish hands.

Scroll survives fire inside metal cylinder Photo courtesy of Shem Olam Institute

Scroll survives fire inside metal cylinder – Photo courtesy: Shem Olam Institute

In honor of Purim, the Shem Olam Institute for Holocaust education, documentation and research unveiled the rare holy items which were in Polish possession for dozens of years and were located and brought to Israel in the past year. Continue Reading »

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| February 15, 2013
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Polish Culture Ministry ends grant for Holocaust journal

Holocaust Studies and Materials has been funded by the Ministry of Culture since its inception 8 years ago. The Center for Holocaust Research filed an appeal against the ministry’s decision to discontinue assistance.

By JTA

 

WARSAW — Poland’s Ministry of Culture and National Heritage will not continue funding a Holocaust journal.

Polish Center for Holocaust Research

 

The decision not to renew funding for the journal Holocaust Studies and Materials, published by Polish Center for Holocaust Research, was announced last week.

The Ministry of Culture provides grants for what it considers to be the most important national magazines. This year, however, the ministry changed the rules by which it allocates grants. Continue Reading »

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| February 15, 2013
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Stolen Paintings to be Returned to Jewish Owners

The heirs of 2 Jewish families whose paintings were stolen during World War II will receive 7 paintings from France.

By Elad Benari

 

France will return seven paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries to the heirs of two Jewish families whose artworks were stolen during World War II, the French culture ministry told AFP on Thursday.

Six paintings by Italian and German artists will be returned to Thomas Selldorff, the octogenarian grandson of Austrian textile magnate Richard Neumann, who was forced to flee his country in 1938.

Neumann came with part of his art collection to Paris but fled to Spain when the Nazis occupied France and eventually reached Cuba, where he settled. Continue Reading »

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| February 2, 2013
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Hungarian Holocaust Denier is First to be Ordered to Visit Auschwitz

Court orders 1st Hungarian convicted under new Holocaust denial law to visit Yad Vashem or Auschwitz.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

The first Hungarian convicted under a new Holocaust denial law has been given a suspended 18-month jail sentence and has to visit Budapest’s memorial museum, Auschwitz or Yad Vashem, a court ruled Friday.

AFP reported that in addition to visiting Budapest’s Holocaust Memorial Center three times the man, Gyorgy Nagy, has to write down his thoughts. Alternatively he can go to the Auschwitz former death camp in Poland or the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem.

The sentence, which also bans the unemployed computer technician from attending political rallies or events, is the first conviction since a new law came into force in 2010. Continue Reading »

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| January 27, 2013
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On Int’l Holocaust Memorial Day, EU’s Aston says “never forget”

EU’s foreign policy chief Ashton paid tribute to Holocaust survivors.

Germany’s Chancellor Merkel reiterated, responsibility for Nazi crimes is eternal.

By JPOST.COM STAFF, BLOOMBERG

 

European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton paid a special tribute to Holocaust survivors, in a statement released on International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday.

Greeks wave swastikas to greet Merkel - Photo by REUTERS-Yannis Behrakis

Ashton said that the survivors of the Holocaust “remind us of this tragedy that we must never forget.”

“Today we remember the victims of the Holocaust. We honor every one of the six million who were brutally murdered in this darkest period of European history,” Ashton stated.

She stressed the importance of remembering that the crime was not perpetrated by a few individuals, but that many were involved directly and indirectly.

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| January 27, 2013
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A Turkish perspective on the Shoah

As Muslims, as Turks and as much as we want the welfare of humanity, we want the Jews to live in peace as well.

By SINEM TEZYAPAR

 

When people of reason and conscience look back on the subject of Shoah (otherwise known as the Holocaust) today, it is common to hear questions like: “How could a nation of philosophers, composers of classical music, technology, poets, in this seat of the Enlightenment itself, suddenly give place to savagery not seen since the Dark Ages? How could such dreadful, inhumane impulses seize every apparatus of a nation and cause it to commit such atrocities?” Continue Reading »

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