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The mayor of Gdansk, Pawel Adamowicz,center, addresses a rally he organized in protest against a recent gathering by far-right groups in this Baltic coast city, in Gdansk, Poland, on Saturday, April 21, 2018. A Holocaust survivor slammed Poland's right-wing government for failing to condemn these groups. (AP Photo/Wojciech Strozyk)
April 22, 2018, 12:11 am
Holocaust survivor warns Polish leaders over neo-Nazi groups
1,500 people gather in Gdansk to protest against rally by far-right extremists amid concerns the Polish government tolerates them
By AP and TOI staff
Mordechai Schachter at his home in Teaneck, New Jersey. (Josefin Dolsten/JTA)
April 19, 2018, 3:59 am
A Holocaust survivor recalls fighting in Israel’s War of Independence
As Israel turns 70, New Jersey-resident Mordechai Schachter details his flight from Romania to the Holy Land and how he was drafted to be an artillery commander in the nascent IDF
By Josefin Dolsten
Francesco Lotoro conducts the Ashdod Symphony Orchestra and children from the Bikurim Performing Arts School in Eshkol and the Yerucham Conservatory. (Picture: Oded Antman/JNF UK)
From the WebApril 18, 2018, 4:30 pm
Liberating the forgotten music of the Holocaust
Songs written and performed in Nazi concentration camps were played for the first time in 73 years on Sunday at magical concert in Jerusalem, Jewish News reports
By Richard Ferrer
Hungarian Kosher Foods is located in Skokie, Illinois, after moving from Chicago in 1986. (Hungarian Kosher Foods/Facebook/via JTA)
April 16, 2018, 4:05 am
It’s the end of an era for America’s first all-kosher supermarket
When a couple who survived the Holocaust opened Hungarian Kosher Foods in 1973, the idea of having a certified grocery, bakery, and butcher under one roof was unheard of
By Yvette Alt Miller
German rappers Kollegah & Farid Bang perform during the 2018 Echo Music Awards ceremony on April 12, 2018, in Berlin (AFP PHOTO / AXEL SCHMIDT)
April 15, 2018, 6:07 am
Controversy builds over German rappers accused of anti-Semitism
Farid Bang and Kollegah's win Echo Music award despite complaints from Holocaust survivors over offensive Auschwitz verse
By AFP and TOI staff
In this file photo taken on November 06, 2004 Czech director Milos Forman poses after being presented with the 'Giraldillo' award for his life-long career achievements at Sevilla Festival Film Spain. (AFP PHOTO / Cristina Quicler)
April 14, 2018, 2:14 pm
Milos Forman, from orphan of Nazi camps to Oscar-winning director
Director of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' and 'Amadeus' dies aged 86; in 1964 he discovered his biological father was a Jewish architect living in Ecuador
By Jan Flemr
April 13, 2018, 7:02 pm
At risk of diluting the Holocaust’s meaning
Even in Italy, the attempted extermination of Jews is being memorialized as 'lost,' 'perished,' and 'were killed'
By Barbara Aiello
In this Wednesday, April 11, 2018, photo, childhood Holocaust survivors Simon Gronowski and Alice Gerstel Weit embrace at the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
April 13, 2018, 12:13 pm
Childhood Holocaust survivors reunited after 76 years
Alice Gerstel and her family left Brussels in 1941; the Gronowski family stayed and half were murdered in Auschwitz
By John Rogers
The infamous German inscription that reads 'Work Makes Free' at the main gate of the Auschwitz I extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on November 15, 2014. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)
April 12, 2018, 1:17 pm
Mengele believed young Trudy’s lie
I wore my grandmother's raincoat and carried her book in my hand as I retraced her steps at Auschwitz
By Orly Margulis
Noah Klieger. (Screen capture: YouTube)
April 12, 2018, 3:50 am
World’s ‘oldest living journalist’ tells how he boxed his way through Auschwitz
92-year-old Noah Klieger survived the Holocaust by narrowly avoiding the gas chambers, then faking his way onto the Nazi camp's boxing squad
By JTA
In this Tuesday, April 10, 2018 photo, Baruch Shub, a Holocaust survivor, poses for a photo at his apartment in a senior citizens' home in Kfar Saba, Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
April 12, 2018, 3:36 am
As numbers dwindle, Jews who fought Nazis recall struggle
As some European nations try to rewrite their history, 91-year-old Yitzhak Arad warns, 'We are fading away, so it will be up to the next generation to continue this battle'
By Aron Heller
Holocaust survivor and former Israeli chief rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau lights a torch at a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day,April 11, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 12, 2018, 12:48 am
Never again — probably
Trumpism has destroyed the social contract that protected Jews and other minority communities
By Abraham H. Foxman
Illustrative image of elderly hands (Pablo K, iStock by Getty Images)
April 11, 2018, 3:42 pm
Don’t just pity survivors, help them. Here’s how.
Of the 100,000 Holocaust survivors living in the US today, around a third of them live in poverty
By Masha Pearl
Screen capture from video of Seth Meyers telling the story of son's birth on on his NBC show “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” April 9, 2018 (YouTube)
April 11, 2018, 1:22 pm
Seth Meyers, wife name son after Holocaust survivor grandparents
Baby Axel Strahl Meyers was born in the lobby of their apartment building
By Gabe Friedman
Holocaust survivors dance during a weekly social meeting at the Cafe Europa community and culture center in Ramat Gan, Israel, a day before Israel begins it annual Holocaust Memorial Day, Tuesday, April 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
April 11, 2018, 8:39 am
A Ramat Gan cafe brings Holocaust survivors together
Named for a Swedish establishment where survivors searched for loved ones after the war, Cafe Europa's clientele 'never talk about the Holocaust'
By Oded Balilty
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