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Holocaust remembrance
April 11, 2018, 3:42 pm
My beloved, damaged, grandparents
They survived the Holocaust, built a bright future for their family, and also passed down their darkest fears
By Howard Feldman
In this April 12, 2016 file photo, Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
April 10, 2018, 3:58 am
New York congresswoman to introduce Holocaust education bill
Carolyn Maloney set to propose bipartisan legislation designed to help educators promote tolerance during Holocaust memorial week
By Eric Cortellessa
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh delivers a speech in Gaza City on January 23, 2018.(AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)
January 31, 2018, 2:01 pm
Israel hails ‘righteous’ US decision to put Hamas leader on terror list
Hamas says it won't be deterred; move allows the US to freeze all Ismail Haniyeh's assets and prohibits Americans from dealing with him
By Gavin Rabinowitz
US Vice President Mike Pence, 2nd left, and his wife Karen, left, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 2nd right, and his wife Sara during a ceremony at the remembrance hall at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, on January 23, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Yad Vashem)
January 29, 2018, 5:04 pm
Pence tweet for Holocaust remembrance day raises hackles with ‘Christ imagery’
US VP accused of dishonoring victims after he called them 'martyrs' who 'rose up from the ashes to resurrect themselves'
By JTA and TOI staff
Raoul Wallenberg, right, with Jews in the Swedish Embassy in Budapest, exact date uncertain (Courtesy Yad Vashem)
January 17, 2018, 2:45 pm
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel to honor foreign diplomats who rescued Jews
Hoping its own diplomats would show similar bravery if needed, Foreign Ministry pays tribute to righteous colleagues with memorial in Jerusalem and exhibit to go around the world
By Raphael Ahren
Visitors to the exhibition 'Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away' on November 28, 2017 at the Arte Canal Exhibition Centre in Madrid. (AFP/Gabriel Bouys)
November 29, 2017, 11:54 pm
Madrid opens first global roving Auschwitz exhibit
In the face of rising xenophobia around the world, 'exhibition can play a crucial role,' official behind project says
By Laurence BOUTREUX
Blocks are placed on a property adjacent to Alternative for Germany lawmaker Bjoern Hoecke’s home in the village of Bornhagen, eastern Germany, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017 (Swen Pfoertner/dpa via AP)
November 22, 2017, 5:04 pm
Germans troll far-right leader with Holocaust memorial outside home
Artists erect mini version of Berlin memorial outside home of AfD's Bjoern Hoecke, who suggested country should stop acknowledging its Nazi past
By AFP
Illustrative: Jews are seen lining up in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. (Courtesy of American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives via JTA)
November 17, 2017, 10:03 pm
Poland to build Warsaw Ghetto museum
Exhibit to be housed in building that served as a children's hospital for Jews during Nazi occupation
By AFP
Illustrative: Screen capture from video of Morocco's Prince Moulay Rachid. (YouTube/TelQuel)
October 26, 2017, 8:06 pm
Morocco supports education cooperation with US Holocaust museum
Prince Moulay Rachid meets with institution's director, says he seeks to use 'the lessons of the past to address the problems of the present'
By JTA
Foxborough Regional Charter School High school students selecting stamps to use on two HSP stamps collages, “I Am the Last Witness” and “Books Cannot Be Killed by Fire.” (Courtesy of Charlotte Sheer/Holocaust Stamp Project)
October 3, 2017, 12:08 pm
School project to remember Holocaust victims surpasses goal of 11 million stamps
9-year-old Massachusetts project sought to memorialize 6 million Jews and 5 million other victims who perished at the hands of the Nazis
By Penny Schwartz
Nadia Murad, 24, a Yazidi woman who escaped Islamic State captivity, tours Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on July 24, 2017 (Mickey Noam-Alon/IsraAID)
July 25, 2017, 9:26 pm
At Yad Vashem, Yazidi activists seek to learn how to record their genocide
With 3,000 Yazidi women still in IS captivity and hundreds of thousands displaced, survivors tour Holocaust memorial with sights set on their own commemoration
By Marissa Newman
A student on a trip to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in modern-day Poland on April 27, 2014. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash 90)
July 10, 2017, 3:19 pm
Travel agents face prosecution for Poland memorial trips cartel
14 people suspected of fixing prices on youth trips to Eastern Europe to learn about Holocaust
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Students at the King David Victory Park school in Johannesburg, South Africa at a Holocaust Remembrance Day event in 2017. (YouTube screenshot)
May 26, 2017, 12:56 am
Hecklers yell ‘Heil Hitler’ during S. Africa school Holocaust play
Teenagers disrupt performance at Johannesburg Jewish institution with anti-Semitic taunts
By JTA
US President Donald Trump watching the lighting of memorial candles during the annual Holocaust Day of Remembrance ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda, April 25, 2017. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images via JTA)
April 26, 2017, 3:19 am
On Jews and the Holocaust, Trump signals that he finally gets it
At remembrance ceremony, US president took pains to acknowledge the Jewish victims of the Nazi genocide, and promised to fight anti-Semitism
By Ron Kampeas
President Donald Trump speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 25, 2017, during the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's National Days of Remembrance ceremony. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
April 25, 2017, 8:04 pm
‘We’ll confront anti-Semitism,’ Trump vows at Holocaust event
In remembrance speech, president says, 'Those who deny the Holocaust are an accomplice to this horrible evil'
By Eric Cortellessa
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