admin | March 30, 2024
It was Passover 1938, and the Kurc family gathered around the Seder table in Radom, Poland, to celebrate. By the next year, with the onset of World War II, the family found itself scattered far and wide, trying desperately to survive the Holocaust with almost no knowledge of the fate of their loved ones. The Kurc familys story is at the center of We Were the Lucky Ones, a new eight-part Hulu miniseries that covers close to a decade of their harrowing journeys.
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admin | March 30, 2024
The author Georgia Hunter grew up hearing that her granduncle kept a fake penis foreskin on hand in case he had to show proof that he wasnt Jewish in Warsaw during the Holocaust. As the story was told to Hunter, her relative, an architect named Adam, was so desperate not to be discovered as Jewish that he stuck a bandage on his member with an egg white and water mixture
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admin | March 30, 2024
We Were the Lucky Ones has its warning built into the title. The Hulu series based on the book by Georgia Hunter and adapted by Erica Lipez is about how one family survived and separated during the Holocaust, all of it underscored by that title this is what they went through, the horror they witnessed and endured, the sadness that befell them, and they were lucky
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admin | March 5, 2024
(March 4, 2024 / JNS) An unknown assailant assaulted an unnamed 62-year-old man wearing a kippah as he left a synagogue on the eastern side of Paris. Frances Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin wrote on March 2 of the incident that took place the day before that there was a new antisemitic attack that occurred in Paris and that everything is being done to apprehend the perpetrator of this unspeakable act
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admin | March 5, 2024
Loading Video This browser does not support the Video element. A show of support for the Jewish community Sunday in San Francisco in response to escalating acts of anti-Semitism across the nation
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admin | February 13, 2024
Robert Badinter, who led France to end the death penalty and fought Holocaust denial, has died at 95 The Killeen Daily Herald
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admin | February 6, 2024
Scotland extradites Holocaust denier to France to face charges The Times of Israel
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admin | January 26, 2024
Antisemitic acts quadrupled in France last year Jewish council The Times of Israel
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admin | January 21, 2024
Were in the Holocaust Galleries at the Imperial War Museum in London.What were looking at here is a concrete tile that has recently gone on display. Its a small object that tells one part of the devastating history of the Holocaust.
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admin | January 13, 2024
The two major branches Despite the fundamental uniformity of medieval Jewish culture, distinctive Jewish subcultures were shaped by the cultural and political divisions within the Mediterranean basin, in which Arabic Muslim and Latin Christian civilizations coexisted as discrete and self-contained societies. Two major branches of rabbinic civilization developed in Europe: the Ashkenazic, or Franco-German, and the Sephardic, or Andalusian-Spanish. Distinguished most conspicuously by their varying pronunciation of Hebrew, the numerous differences between them in religious orientation and practice derived, in the first instance, from the geographical fountainheads of their culturethe Ashkenazim (plural of Ashkenazi) tracing their cultural filiation to Italy and Palestine and the Sephardim (plural of Sephardi) to Babyloniaand from the influences of their respective immediate milieus
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