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Holocaust survivor and Palestinian rights advocate Felicia Langer interviewed in 2012. (Screen capture: YouTube)
Pro-Palestinian Holocaust survivor Felicia Langer dies at 87
By Frank Zeller
Left-wing lawyer defended Palestinian detainees and authored several books critical of IDF, was denounced for calling Israel 'apartheid' state
Meijer and Tedje van der Sluis during filming in Amsterdam of a 2018 documentary about their marriage. (Merlijn Doomernik/via JTA)
These Dutch Holocaust survivors have been madly in love for 70 years
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Holocaust survivor and Palestinian rights advocate Felicia Langer interviewed in 2012. (Screen capture: YouTube)
June 24, 2018, 6:03 pm
Pro-Palestinian Holocaust survivor Felicia Langer dies at 87
Left-wing lawyer defended Palestinian detainees and authored several books critical of IDF, was denounced for calling Israel 'apartheid' state
By Frank Zeller
Meijer and Tedje van der Sluis during filming in Amsterdam of a 2018 documentary about their marriage. (Merlijn Doomernik/via JTA)
June 24, 2018, 9:08 am
These Dutch Holocaust survivors have been madly in love for 70 years
A newly released documentary sets out to record the nonagenarians' one-of-a-kind romance, and its tragic roots
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Jack Garfein delivering a speech in New York, June 7, 2018. (Courtesy of From the Depths)
June 22, 2018, 11:40 pm
Film producer, TV’s Superman honored by Holocaust remembrance group
Jack Garfein became a civil rights activist after immigrating to US; actor Dean Cain recently produced a documentary about the Armenian genocide
By JTA
Jack and Rachelle Goldstein, who as children were separated from their families during the Holocaust, criticize the separation of children from their families caught illegally crossing the US border in a video released by the Anti-Defamation League on June 19, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)
June 20, 2018, 10:42 pm
Jews separated from families during Holocaust condemn US border policy
'Separation of the family for us is probably the worst thing that ever happened to us,' says Rachelle Goldstein in video released by ADL
By Josefin Dolsten
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz lays a wreath during a ceremony at the Hall of Remembrance in the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, during a state visit in Israel, June 10, 2018 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
June 10, 2018, 6:10 pm
Austrian leader visits Yad Vashem, Western Wall
On first visit to Israel since becoming chancellor, Sebastian Kurz vows to ensure 'horrific crimes' remembered
By Sue Surkes and Raphael Ahren
Joseph Schneider holds a pistol. (Courtesy National Library of Israel)
May 30, 2018, 2:56 pm
Family of refusenik puts on display the world’s only photos of Soviet gulag life
Archive that was smuggled out in a picture frame by Holocaust survivor, Red Army veteran and Zionist activist Joseph Schneider is now housed at the National Library of Israel
By Yaakov Schwartz
Amit Hirsch, right, recites the mourner's prayer at what used to be the Jewish cemetery in Turobin, Poland, June 2017. (Courtesy of Lea Hirsch)
May 27, 2018, 3:25 pm
Who killed a Polish Holocaust hero? His family may be close to finding out
Long-forgotten testimony by the victim's sister -- the family's sole survivor -- may help solve the decades-old mystery behind the murder of Sobibor escapee Josef Kopf
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Self-portrait at drawing table, René Goscinny, 1948. (© Anne Goscinny)
May 23, 2018, 4:34 pm
The wild adventures of René Goscinny, Jewish inventor of Asterix and Obelix
New exhibit at London's Jewish Museum explores the life, hardships, and providential escape from Nazi Europe of the world famous cartoonist
By Jenni Frazer
Josef Ganz in the 1960s. (Courtesy Paul Schilperoord)
May 19, 2018, 2:14 pm
The unknown Jewish engineer behind Hitler’s vaunted Volkswagen Beetle
A Nashville exhibit highlights the contributions of Josef Ganz and others that were swept under the rug when they were blacklisted by the Reich
By Rich Tenorio
Ralph Dannheisser, born in 1938 and whose family fled the Nazi regime to the US in 1940, poses for a photo in Frankfurt am Main on May 8, 2018. (AFP/Yann Schreiber)
May 18, 2018, 2:25 pm
Germany loses Holocaust reminder as survivors dwindle
As far-right parties make gains, educators and historians say the country needs to urgently find new ways of remembering the past
By Tom BARFIELD
Dr. Michael Lozman, foreground, fixing up a Jewish cemetery in Belarus. (Courtesy)
May 11, 2018, 6:41 pm
Remembering the Holocaust: Albany interfaith project to create outdoor memorial
After extensive work restoring Jewish cemeteries around Europe and his father's hometown in Belarus, Dr. Michael Lozman sets his sights on the US
By Lois Goldrich
Still from a video posted by Amsterdam’s Blue Mosque showing what it says is the conversion to Islam of 87-year-old Sal van Coeverden on May 4, 2019 (Facebook)
May 11, 2018, 6:26 pm
Dutch mosque claims to convert Holocaust survivor to Islam; Jews are skeptical
A Facebook video appears to show conversion of 87-year-old 'Jewish aristocrat' Sal van Coeverden on May 4. Strangely, journalists have been unable to locate the man
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Dana Rogozinski (right) with her grandmother Ella Lucak Rogozinski in 2015. (Courtesy)
May 1, 2018, 6:59 pm
Granddaughter of Holocaust survivors makes jewelry featuring Nazi tattoo numbers
Dana Rogozinski names company after her grandparents; aims to 'spark important conversations' through unique necklaces, bracelets, cuff links
By Renee Ghert-Zand
The child of a Holocaust survivor sharing his father's memories with residents of Hongkou, the former Jewish ghetto in Shanghai during WWII, in this still from 'Above the Drowning Sea.' (Courtesy Above the Drowning Sea/ Time & Rhythm Cinema)
April 29, 2018, 8:59 am
In new film, survivors recall placid WWII days in the safe harbor of Shanghai
Showing in LA on April 29, 'Above the Drowning Sea' documents the individual kindnesses in faraway China that saved 20,000 European Jews from Hitler's killing machine
By Anne Joseph
Nazi liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto. (Courtesy of USHMM)
April 27, 2018, 3:31 pm
Why my mother wouldn’t let Yiddish die
She needed poetry to pay tribute to her childhood memories of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the pain of their loss
By Fay Rosenfeld
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