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Bernard Dichek
Bernard Dichek
A view of the southern coast of Crete in June 1943. (German Federal Archive/Wikimedia Commons/via JTA)
June 11, 2019, 2:35 am
Greek Jews honor Crete community drowned in entirety en route to Auschwitz
75 years ago, Nazis rounded up the island’s Jewish population and forced them onto the tanker Tanais, subsequently mistaken for a German war ship and sunk by the British
By Bernard Dichek
An Ethiopian worshiper at the synagogue in Addis Ababa. (Bernard Dichek/ Times of Israel)
April 5, 2019, 10:53 am
Rabbi of 8,000 stranded Ethiopian Jews fights to complete their exodus
The Jewish Agency’s Menachem Waldman works to reunite generations of forcibly converted Jews with family who have been in Israel for up to 20 years
By Bernard Dichek
Kalush Gymnasim teacher Natalia Zubrytska, who ran to paint over a swastika, front center with paintbrush. (Kalush Gymnasium)
November 23, 2018, 2:58 pm
Ukrainian youth and townsfolk band together to restore neglected Jewish cemetery
Residents of Kalush, one-third of whose population were Jews prior to WWII, take off work and school to give a piece of their shared history a much-needed facelift
By Bernard Dichek
Bernard Dichek
April 27, 2014, 9:45 am
Bernard Dichek
The stories remain
Finding, in the different and unpredictable reactions to a film, the power and necessity of telling the story
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