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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 643

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The Centropa archive focuses on Holocaust survivors who remained in central and eastern Europe. (Courtesy)
June 14, 2024, 4:19 pm
Centropa archive documents Holocaust survivors’ entire lives – not just the Nazi years
US Holocaust Museum acquires trove of interviews with Jews who stayed in central and eastern Europe in hopes of fleshing out a lost 20th-century history as told by those who lived it
By Matt Lebovic
The exterior of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, is illuminated with blue lights in honor of the current events happening in Israel, October 11, 2023. (USHMM via JTA)
October 13, 2023, 3:52 pm
In Washington, Holocaust survivors speak out about Hamas terror onslaught
As the US Holocaust Memorial Museum was bathed in blue and white Wednesday night in support of Israel, 15 survivors shared their unique take on this week’s horrors
By Ron Kampeas
Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan, center, gestures as he attends a memorial ceremony at the Hall of Remembrance as he visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem, Wednesday, October 24, 2018. (Gali Tibbon/Pool Photo via AP)
April 6, 2022, 5:43 am
Chinese media keeps referencing the Holocaust – here’s why
Experts say China’s state-run outlets draw attention to the 20,000 Jews who took refuge in Shanghai during WWII to deflect criticism of the regime’s treatment of minority Uighurs
By Jordyn Haime
Alon Shaya, right, helped Steven Fenves experience the taste of his pre-Holocaust childhood. (US Holocaust Memorial Museum; Rush Jagoe/ via JTA)
March 14, 2021, 5:08 am
Star chef Alon Shaya helps Holocaust survivor recreate recipes from prewar youth
Steven Fenves translates heirloom recipes rescued from looters after his family was deported; 75 years after his mother’s murder, he once again tastes his favorite childhood dishes
By Margaret Littman
Maziar Bahari at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (courtesy)
January 4, 2021, 8:59 pm
Expat Iranian joins with US Holocaust Museum to teach Jewish genocide in Persian
Journalist Maziar Bahari and his ‘IranWire’ website are leveraging scholars from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to stamp out Holocaust denial at its roots
By Matt Lebovic
A group of Jews, including a small boy, is escorted from the Warsaw Ghetto by German soldiers, April 19, 1943. (AP Photo)
January 27, 2020, 7:37 am
Is it ethical to show Holocaust images?
Critics argue that viewing the photographs risks further dehumanizing their subjects; others say it is important to show real human beings subjected to inhuman suffering
By Paul Morrow
Pope Pius XII (Courtesy of PerlePress Productions)
January 21, 2020, 1:56 am
Documentary confronts cost of Pope Pius XII’s ‘Holy Silence’ during Holocaust
Premiering January 21 ahead of the imminent opening of the Secret Vatican Archives for 1939-1958, film provides historical context for 17 million pages of documents to be released
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Askari or Trawniki guards peer into a doorway past the bodies of Jews killed during the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. (Courtesy of US Holocaust Memorial Museum)
December 7, 2019, 3:10 am
How historians led a campaign to hunt down, deport Nazi killers living in the US
‘Citizen 865’ details the capture of Trawniki Men — Soviet POWs and Ukrainian civilians trained by the SS who helped murder 1.7 million Jews, and some of whom then came to America
By Renee Ghert-Zand
May 3, 1938: 'Segregation in Kindergarten.' Wilhelm Hesse, father of Eva Hesse — who would go on to be one of the most famous female American artists of the 20th century — kept a diary for his daughters. 'The times have become very serious. We are depressed and despondent, and therefore there is little leisure and inclination to write and take photographs as elaborately as before,' he wrote. (Courtesy of Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin)
June 10, 2019, 9:23 am
Online 1938 Projekt immerses pupils in turning-point year for German Jews
Real personal documents bring readers in direct contact with the struggles, hopes, and even bureaucratic hurdles of Jewish Europeans trying to escape an unforeseeable genocide
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Migrants in Mexico stand amid tear gas launched by US agents at the border with the US, right of fence, after a group of migrants pushed past Mexican police at the Chaparral crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, Nov. 25, 2018 (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
November 27, 2018, 5:20 am
Is it fair that Ocasio-Cortez compared migrant caravan to Jews fleeing Nazis?
When asked for comment, US Holocaust Memorial Museum points to earlier statement that it is not out of place to liken flight of Jews in the 1930s to subsequent refugee crises
By Ron Kampeas
Members and supporters of the Jewish community come together for a candlelight vigil, in remembrance of those who died earlier in the day during a shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, in front of the White House in Washington, DC on October 27, 2018. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)
October 28, 2018, 9:54 am
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting sparks outpouring of grief from US Jews
Holocaust Museum reminds Americans of ‘dangers of unchecked hatred and anti-Semitism,’ calls for ‘social solidarity’
By AFP
'Rescue Board' author, Rebecca Erbelding. (Miriam Lomaskin)
June 29, 2018, 12:06 pm
Holocaust museum scholar pushes fund drive for group that compares Israel, Nazis
Dr. Rebecca Erbelding offers a free copy of her new book to anyone donating to the Quaker AFSC, which rescued Jews in WWII but now compares Jewish state’s policies to Hitler regime
By Atara Beck
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
Yehuda and Breindy Gelbfish of Lakewood, New Jersey, who visited the Amud Aish Memorial Museum recently with four of their 10 children, loaned a number of items that belonged to Yehuda's father Benjamin, a Lublin Yeshiva student who fled to Vilna, Lithuania. (Jon Kalish/via JTA)
April 10, 2018, 7:33 pm
A Holocaust museum in Brooklyn tells the story through the eyes of Orthodox Jews
The dynamics of the genocide’s impact on religious belief and Orthodox rescue efforts are among the topics covered at New York’s Amud Aish Memorial Museum
By Jon Kalish
Maziar Bahari, December 4, 2017. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
March 12, 2018, 1:29 am
Tortured Iranian expat makes documentaries to educate Muslims about Holocaust
Maziar Bahari’s home country imprisoned him for his education initiatives, but he continues to preach against genocide — including at Monday’s speech at the USHMM
By Cathryn J. Prince
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