admin | June 27, 2024
The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal of a controversy between Hungary and Holocaust survivors over Hungarys confiscation of their property during World War II. This will be the second time the US Supreme Court is hearing this case. Republic of Hungary v.
admin | June 27, 2024
(June 25, 2024 / JNS) A 102-year-old Holocaust survivor and Berlin native is the face of Vogue magazine in Germany. Margot Friedlnder, one of the oldest and most prominent Holocaust survivors in the world, graces the cover of the July-August edition of the fashion and beauty magazine which has hit the newsstands in Europe. Respect for life and the responsibility of being human are the core messages of #MargotFriedlnder, the magazine wrote on X promoting the story.
admin | June 27, 2024
Considered the Father of the Indian Nation, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi(1869 1948), akaBapu(a Gujarati endearment for father), was a lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist whose use of nonviolent resistance led the successful campaign for Indian independence from British rule and inspired worldwide movements for civil rights and freedom. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability and, above all, achieving self-rule.
admin | June 27, 2024
Mona Golabek is a woman on a mission. The word she has been spreading through her music and her mothers life story for the past two-plus decades is of a decidedly uplifting, emotive, and inspiring nature
admin | June 7, 2024
Donald Trump used the term holocaust, which usually refers to Nazi Germanys industrial murder of 6 million Jews, to characterize a misleading claim about migrant children in the United States. The presumptive Republican nominee was responding to reports that the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services that is responsible for unaccompanied minors at the border, received no response to follow-up phone calls for 85,000 migrant children. The children and their sponsors are not required to answer, and HHS says 81 percent of the checkups are successful
admin | June 7, 2024
The Claims Conference secures a $114 million increase in funding from Germany for social welfare services on behalf of Holocaust survivors worldwide. The funding is for acute assistance for the next two calendar years, the Claims Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which represents the Jewish people in compensation talks with Germany for the Holocaust, says in a statement.
admin | June 7, 2024
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair On May 4, as war and famine raged in Gaza, Amsterdam marked Remembrance Day, an annual commemoration of those who resisted the Nazi occupation, with special emphasis from the citys organizing committee on the Jews who perished in the onslaught.
admin | June 7, 2024
At a Holocaust museum in Atlanta, staff members had typically ended their tours by saying that many survivors of the death camps immigrated to Palestine. But after the start of the Israel-Hamas war, the guides noticed that some students would ask a simple but complicated question: Is this the Palestine that weve been hearing about? So staff members at the museum, the Breman, made a few changes, according to Rabbi Joseph Prass, the museums education director.
admin | June 7, 2024
Home | At a Time of Global Strife, Holocaust Education Receives a Much-Needed Increase; Holocaust SurvivorsAlso ReceiveIncrease in Social Welfare Services Funding Claims Conference in the Media | Press Inquiries | Publications | Videos | Updates Negotiations between the Claims Conference and the German government, held this year at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. Social Welfare Services For Holocaust Survivors Will Increase An Additional 105 Million, Impacting More Than 100,000 Survivors Worldwide
admin | June 7, 2024
Despite the countless documentaries, movies, TV shows, and books on World War II, 63% of American millennials and Gen Z do not know that 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, according to a 2020 state-by-state survey conducted by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. The survey found that 48% could not name a concentration camp or ghetto
Proudly Powered by WordPress | Theme by The Cloisters | Entries RSS Comments RSS
