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Skokie Area Events Calendar: Check Out Whats Happening This Week – Patch.com

| September 28, 2021

SKOKIE, IL Wondering what there is to do this week? Patch has you covered with the latest upcoming events taking place this week throughout Skokie. Here are some events taking place in town this week.

What Jews are voting for in Germanys national elections – JTA News – Jewish Telegraphic Agency

| September 28, 2021

BERLIN (JTA) Rising antisemitism, Germanys relationship with Israel, pensions for aging Soviet immigrants these are just some of the issues Jewish voters across Germany are considering before casting their vote in Sundays federal election. The nation is replacing the retiring Chancellor Angela Merkel after a monumental 16 years in the position.

The Auschwitz Report: Slovakian film tells of escapees who tried to warn world – The Times of Israel

| September 28, 2021

JTA Were it not for Rudolph Vrba and Alfrd Wexler, would the world today know the true extent of the mass murder the Nazis inflicted during the Holocaust? The two men, both Slovak Jews who escaped from Auschwitz, secretly recorded fastidious notes about details of the death camp unknown to the outside world. These included schematics of the gas chambers, the Nazis use of the deadly chemical Zyklon-B, the number of prisoners being brought in to their deaths every day and the planned construction of a new rail line for deporting Hungarian Jews directly to the camp

Herzog pays tribute to Angela Merkel ahead of German elections – The Jerusalem Post

| September 28, 2021

Just a few days before German citizens were due to go to the polls to elect a new Chancellor, Die Zeit, one of Germany's leading national weekly newspapers, published a farewell tribute to current Chancellor Angela Merkel last Thursday and invited past and present political figures from several countries to share their memories and impressions under the heading of "Auf Wiedersehen" (Till we meet again). Merkel is the first German chancellor to have been born after the Second World War, the first woman to serve in the role, and the third longest-serving chancellor overall, after Otto von Bismark and Helmut Kohl. cnxps.cmd.push(function () { cnxps({ playerId: '36af7c51-0caf-4741-9824-2c941fc6c17b' }).render('4c4d856e0e6f4e3d808bbc1715e132f6'); }); But as it was, the Die Zeit editors did not choose Netanyahu.

Polish history in the Shoah is not black and white – opinion – The Jerusalem Post

| September 22, 2021

Last month in Otwock, a former spa-town southeast of Warsaw, swastikas were painted on the railway station where women and children were loaded onto trains for Treblinka. This might play into the stereotype of an antisemitic Poland, especially after the recent passage of a controversial law that criminalizes blaming Poland or Polish people for harming Jews has been applied to harass journalists and Holocaust historians.

King of The Netherlands unveils first national Holocaust Monument – European Jewish Press

| September 22, 2021

King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands unveiled on Sunday the countrys first National Holocaust Monument which lists the names of the 102,163 Dutch victims of the Shoah. The unveiling ceremony was broadcast live on Dutch public television. The monument, designed by Daniel Libeskind lies in the centre of Amsterdam and is a labyrinth of brick walls that, when seen from above, form Hebrew letters reading in remembrance.

Nearly half against allowing Shoah deniers and extremists to sue universities for bans – Jewish News

| September 17, 2021

Nearly half of the public would not support plans that could allow Holocaust deniers and other extremists to sue universities if they were banned from speaking on campuses, a survey suggested. Critics of new proposed freedom of speech laws claim they could leave the way open for antisemites and other racists to sue for compensation if they are no platformed by university leaders.

Stoppard not alone in struggling with his past – Jewish News

| September 17, 2021

You wouldnt need to be a devotee of the theatre or playwright Tom Stoppard to be fascinated by his lengthy appearance on the late night BBC arts programme, Imagine. Alan Yentobs interview, conducted in the bucolic setting of Stoppards quintessentially English country home, detailed his life as an inside, outsider

Pandemic Sukkot: The Shelter of the Table – Jewish Journal

| September 17, 2021

When danger strikes, we look for shelter. For more than 18 months, the danger of a lethal virus and its variants has hovered above us and around us

Where Is Anne Frank? and Charlotte Animate Holocaust History – jewishboston.com

| September 17, 2021

There arent really many animated films about the Holocaust, so its a bit surprising that the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival screened not one but two animated films about victims of the Shoah. Despite their similarity in medium and subject matter, Where Is Anne Frank? and Charlotte offer two very different cinematic experiences, neither great but both interesting and respectable in their own ways.


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