admin | April 20, 2024
(ST. JOSEPH, Mo.) May 6th is an internationally recognized date for Holocaust Rememberance Day, corresponding to the 27th day of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. One history teacher from Lafayette High School wants to share her husband's experiences as a member of the Jewish community.
admin | April 20, 2024
There was a significant drop in the number of schools and organisations that took part in Holocaust Memorial Day this year, due to unprecedented challenges engaging people due to October 7, organisers said. Uptake dropped by nearly 20 per cent compared to last year in marking the one day in the British calendar that commemorates victims of the Holocaust and other genocides.
admin | April 20, 2024
Taipei, April 17 (CNA) Israel and Germany's top representatives to Taiwan on Wednesday warned of rising antisemitism around the globe as both countries remembered victims and survivors of the Holocaust during an annual memorial event in Taipei attended by President Tsai Ing-wen (). Speaking during her address at the event held at the Taipei Guest House, Israel's representative to Taiwan Maya Yaron said the memorial was held at "a time of great sorrow and tension, when antisemitism and violence are evident in so many places in our world." According to Yaron, 2023 marked the year with the highest number of antisemitic incidents around the world for many years, not only on social media platforms but also in terms of direct physical assaults.
admin | April 20, 2024
By Robert Zaller The island of Zakynthos, the next to southernmost of the Seven Islands archipelago in the Ionian Sea, is among the most beautiful and cultured in all of Greece.
admin | April 20, 2024
The main action in Irenas Vow is triggered by a chilling scene in a Polish street where a Nazi officer murders a baby in front of its mother. Chilling but predictable: This new Holocaust drama about a Polish nurse who successfully hid a dozen Jews in the home of a Nazi commander treads familiar ground. A co-production between Poland and Canada, lead by Quebec director Louise Archambault and written by Canadian Dan Gordon based on his own play, it includes many scenes where the tension feels rote.
admin | April 20, 2024
Dozens of FBI agents in L.A. learned what happens when anti-Semitism gets out of control as 101-year-old Holocaust survivor Joe Alexander told them his story Wednesday. KNX News' Emily Valdez reports - Alexander was 16 years old when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1938
admin | April 20, 2024
The new film Irenas Vow tells the amazing true story of Irena Gut Opdyke (Sophie Nlisse), a Polish Catholic nurse who risked her own life to hide Jews being persecuted by the Nazis during World War II. Irena was 17 years old and a nursing student living away from home when the Russians and Germans invaded Poland in 1939
admin | April 20, 2024
A memorial for 6000 Jews killed by the Nazis near Kasauti, Moldova by the Nazis was defaced with graffiti on March 22, according to the Jewish Community of Moldova and Israeli Religious Services Ministry.
admin | April 11, 2024
Lena Dunham made the emotional discovery that her family has connections to the Holocaust during last weeks episode of the PBS celebrity genealogy series Finding Your Roots. Historian and host Henry Louis Gates Jr. revealed that Dunhams great-great-grandmother Regina Seltenwirth came to the US alone at just 14 years old, leaving 11 siblings behind in Europe
admin | April 11, 2024
(JTA) Holocaust survivors in Israel relived their trauma on Oct. 7, when Hamas attack on their country was the deadliest day for Jews since the Nazis were defeated. Some were injured, hid for their lives and were displaced from their homes, in echoes of their experiences as children.
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