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Ben Sales’ great-grandfather, Abba Sales, emigrated from Eastern Europe to the United States in 1921. His parents and other relatives were killed in the Holocaust. (Courtesy of Ben Sales)
April 13, 2018, 4:31 am
My ancestors died in the Holocaust. I just found out about it
A letter found folded into a Passover Hagaddah changes the family history we thought we always knew
By Ben Sales
Raed Saleh, left, a Berlin senator, and the city’s Jewish community president, Gideon Joffe, hold an architect’s rendering of a planned reconstruction of the Fraenkelufer Synagogue. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
March 20, 2018, 5:44 am
Palestinian-born legislator dreams of rebuilding a synagogue in Berlin
Raed Saleh hopes his ambitious project will stand as a statement against growing anti-Semitism in Germany's capital city — as well as against discrimination targeting Muslims
By Toby Axelrod
In Weimar, Germany, Adolf Hitler participates in a Nazi party rally, 1930 (public domain)
January 8, 2018, 3:15 am
What did Germans know? Secret anti-Nazi diary gives voice to man on the street
Friedrich Kellner's account, starting from 1939, about the Nazi regime's atrocities and the unfolding destruction of European Jewry is being published in English for the first time
By Matt Lebovic
The Semer Project performed at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, on Nov. 14, 2017 (Ilene Perlman/Jewish Arts Collaborative)
November 23, 2017, 10:14 pm
Saved in a musical ‘Noah’s Ark,’ pre-Holocaust Jewish music performed again live
A shellac disc trove of sacred -- and very profane -- pre-WWII music rescued 15 years ago spurs creation of an ensemble that honors slain musicians' resistance to genocide
By Matt Lebovic
Walking the streets of Germany at night (Courtesy, Talya Herring)
November 10, 2017, 3:00 pm
From the lands of the Holocaust
Hitler lost the war, but I feel like my people are extinct
By Talya Herring
Former Nazi guard Jakiw Palij seen at his home in Queens, New York City. (Screen capture: YouTube)
November 10, 2017, 1:33 am
Marking Kristallnacht, Jewish teens rally outside NY home of ex-Nazi guard
Demonstrators demand 94-year-old Jakiw Palij, a former guard at the Trawniki concentration camp, be deported from US
By David Jeans
Illustrative image of a Synagogue burning on Kristallnacht, in Nazi-Germany, 9 November 1938. (Public domain, Wikimedia commons)
November 9, 2017, 9:08 pm
Kristallnacht and Larry David: Too soon?
The Holocaust has receded far enough into history to begin its assimilation into the larger Jewish story
By Joshua Hammerman
A Kristallnacht commemoration at the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, November 9, 2016. (Courtesy of Jonet.nl)
November 9, 2017, 6:13 pm
Dutch anti-Semitism watchdog outraged by anti-Israel Kristallnacht speakers
Ex-PM Dries van Agt, who has compared Israel to Nazi Germany, will address main memorial ceremony; that's 'insane,' says one critic
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Three Stolpersteine, or 'stumbling stones,' dedicated to the memory of Josef Geer and to the Hauslauers -- a married couple who were Jehovah's Witnesses -- in Salzburg, Austria. (Noah Lederman/Times of Israel)
November 8, 2017, 9:07 pm
Holocaust memorial stones stolen from Berlin neighborhood
Ahead of Kristallnacht anniversary, gold 'stumbling stones' dug up in Neukölln
By JTA
Rabbi Benjamin Papermaster and his eight sons and first grandson in Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1908. (The Jewish Museum of the American West)
October 15, 2017, 4:03 am
Frontier Jews find more ‘Green Acres’ than Goldene Medina in rural Dakota
Like fellow Americans moving West, the first Jews who settled in the Dakota Territory were attracted by the Homestead Act of 1862
By Rich Tenorio
The so-called 'People's Court' of Nazi Germany, set up outside of normal constitutional frameworks, 1944 (Public domain)
June 23, 2017, 10:02 pm
Boston event commends Nazi-era citizens’ acts of virtue, even as their judges abetted genocide
Tied to a US Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit on how courts aided Nazi Germany, legal experts discuss the role of tribunals in protecting minorities
By Matt Lebovic
Illustrative image of a Synagogue burning on Kristallnacht, in Nazi-Germany, 9 November 1938. (Public domain, Wikimedia commons)
June 8, 2017, 5:51 pm
Foundations of synagogue destroyed in 1938 uncovered in Poland
Archaeologists find ruins of New Synagogue, which once featured four towers and a 210-foot-high dome
By JTA
Students at the Foxboro Regional Charter School in Massachusetts pose with a Holocaust-related mural in 2016, created through the school's Holocaust Stamps Project (Courtesy)
April 24, 2017, 5:47 pm
More than 9.2-million canceled stamps later, Holocaust postage project recognized in Boston
For 8 years, students at a Massachusetts charter school have collected stamps to learn about the Shoah -- and push back on bullying
By Matt Lebovic
Siegfried (Shimon) Keller with his cousin, Helga Schwappe, Werden, Germany, 1920s, years before he escaped Germany with the Youth Aliya (Courtesy of Yad Vashem)
April 24, 2017, 11:48 am
‘Last Letters’ exhibit offers bittersweet memories of Holocaust
On Remembrance Day, Yad Vashem uploads wartime correspondences, providing a window into the final exchanges of 10 families
By Jessica Steinberg
Schoolchildren and others brought to watch the burning of synagogue furnishings on Kristallnacht in Mosbach, Germany, November 1938 (courtesy)
March 14, 2017, 3:02 pm
German judges sanction Jew hatred
Op-ed: A recent court ruling on a synagogue attack has fanned the flames of anti-Semitism in Europe
By Abraham Cooper and Yitzchok Adlerstein
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