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Marthe Cohn being filmed by director Nicola Hens for the upcoming documentary 'An Unusual Spy.' (Courtesy)
WWII Heroes
The 4’11” Jewish woman who entered the lion’s den to spy on Nazi Germany
By Alex Suskind
'I was very lucky,' says 97-year-old Marthe Cohn, the subject of a new documentary that highlights her near-impossible missions
A Nazi flag outside the German consulate's house on Chestnut Street in Beacon Hill, May 1940. (public domain)
September 4, 2017, 3:48 am
When Boston was America’s ‘capital’ of anti-Semitism
Prewar Boston was a hotbed of ties to Nazi Germany, both public and covert. During the war, Jewish youth paid a bloody price for years of virulent hate
By Matt Lebovic
Shalom Shtanberg at his bar mitzvah in Haifa, Aug. 31, 2017. (Screenshot from Ynet/JTA)
September 2, 2017, 2:07 am
Holocaust survivor celebrates bar mitzvah 80 years late in Israel
Shalom Shtanberg, who lived in Warsaw Ghetto when he was 13, greeted by cheering crowd at ceremony in Haifa
By JTA
Elephants at the Cologne Zoological Garden (CC BY 2.0 Marco Verch/Wikipedia).
September 1, 2017, 5:25 pm
US woman, 93, gives $22m to German zoo, for survivor husband
Elizabeth Reichert says she wanted to give back to city where she met her Jewish husband, a Holocaust survivor
By AFP
August 30, 2017, 2:56 pm
How I left the Antifa
It was just when black bloc anarchy began to fill him with dread that he was arrested and thrown in a crowded cell
By Gideon Weigert
Clockwise from left, 'Ritchie Boy' Werner Angress in his paratrooper uniform ca. 1944. Angress died in 2010 at age 90; The Holocaust Center at which Guy Stern still works in Farmington Hills, Michigan; Stern reenacting his old role. (Courtesy Henderson/Stern)
August 26, 2017, 2:31 pm
They fled the Nazis for the US, then served their new country to take down Hitler
In his new book, Bruce Henderson talks about the German-speaking Jewish soldiers who escaped WWII Europe, only to go back in uniform to collect intelligence
By Rich Tenorio
Clockwise, from left: Hubert Butler with daughter Julia in 1960; two couples Butler helped save from the Nazis. (Courtesy)
August 25, 2017, 4:18 pm
When Ireland rejected Jewish orphans fleeing Nazis, this man saved dozens
A new film chronicling Irish anti-Semitism stars one WWII hero, essayist Hubert Butler, who was ostracized for speaking against the Catholic church
By Robert Philpot
'The Unbowed Man' statue at the Khatyn Memorial in Belarus commemoratesYuzif Kaminsky, a survivor of Nazi atrocities, and his slain son Adam. (John Oldale/Wikimedia Commons/via JTA)
August 24, 2017, 8:26 pm
Belarus Holocaust monument is haunting — and subversive
The tribute is unusual for the former USSR both in its recognition of individual suffering, and in its Jewish creator
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Claims Conference representatives meet with German officials during Holocaust restitution negotiations in Israel in 2013. (photo credit: Courtesy Claims Conference)
August 24, 2017, 9:44 am
Claims Conference negotiating with Germany over Holocaust reparations for Algerian Jewry
Although they were not forced into ghettos, Claims Conference says Berlin should compensate Algerian Jews for stripping citizenship and professions under Vichy regime
By Julie Masis
Bill Slott at the grave of his great-great grandfather in Pushalot, Lithuania (Courtesy)
August 22, 2017, 4:16 pm
Craving memory in Pushalot, Lithuania
He is the great-great grandson of a Lithuanian egg peddler and the father of Israeli soldiers
By Bill Slott
A Holocaust memorial in Vidin, Bulgaria defaced with the words "Allah," "Palestine" and "Hamas" on August 19, 2017. (Facebook screen capture)
August 21, 2017, 6:25 pm
Holocaust monument defaced in Bulgarian town
Mayor of Vidin decries 'outrageous and unacceptable' spraying of 'Palestine' and 'Hamas' on memorial marking rescue of Jews
By JTA
Protesters at 'dueling rallies' on the Boston Common, August 19, 2017 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
August 20, 2017, 4:20 am
In Boston, concerned Jews gather in prayer and protest against bigotry
An interfaith vigil and well-publicized 'dueling rallies' draw thousands of Jews to denounce racism and anti-Semitism in America's Cradle of Liberty
By Matt Lebovic
The ritual baths of the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, excavated by a team of Israeli, American and Lithuanian archaeologists, summer 2017. (John Seligman/IAA)
August 18, 2017, 12:14 pm
Archaeologists uncover the heart of Nazi-razed Vilnius synagogue
Discovery of ritual baths adds another dimension to reconstruct daily life of slaughtered community known as the 'Jerusalem of Lithuania'
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Vice President Mike Pence, left, with Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Metropolitan cathedral in Buenos Aires, August 15, 2017. (Eitan Abramovich/AFP/Getty Images)
August 17, 2017, 6:51 am
Mike Pence commemorates Holocaust, terrorism victims in Argentina
US vice president pays homage at Buenos Aires memorial ceremony marking 25 years since 1992 embassy bombing
By JTA
A street in the Dutch city of Hattem, where the 1931 marriage certificate of Holocaust victims Siegfried de Groot and Bertha Lippers was found in the chimney of a private home during renovations. (Public Domain/Wikipedia)
August 14, 2017, 6:42 pm
Dutch historians find hidden marriage document of Holocaust victims
Relatives of Siegfried de Groot and Bertha Lippers sought, after their 1931 ketubah was found concealed inside a chimney
By JTA
Family photos of working in the diamond-polishing factories of Havana from the documentary 'Cuba’s Forgotten Jewels.' (Courtesy)
August 14, 2017, 11:35 am
A tropical story of diamonds and Holocaust survival in ‘Cuba’s Forgotten Jewels’
New film explores the forgotten era when the Caribbean island became a temporary gem hub after opening its doors to thousands of European Jews fleeing the Nazis
By Larry Luxner
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