admin | March 30, 2024
In July 2002, an Israeli jet took out Salah Shehade, the commander of Hamass military wing, who had been involved in attacks responsible for the deaths of474 people. While an assistant of his was also killedin the strike, so were13 civilians including Shehades wife and daughter.
admin | March 30, 2024
Rabbi Sheldon Rudoff Click herefor a PDF version of this edition of Heres My Story, or visit theMy Encounter Blog. The story I am about to tell happened in the early 1950s, not long after the Rebbe took over the leadership of Chabad Lubavitch. At the time, I was in high school and living in Crown Heights on Carroll Street, which is around the corner from President Street where the Rebbe lived.
admin | March 30, 2024
Mild spoilers for We Were the Lucky Ones ahead.
admin | March 30, 2024
Helma Goldmark, an Austrian-born Jew, turned 12 in 1938, the year it became evident that she was no longer safe in her homeland. In March, Nazi Germany annexed Austria in an event known as the Anschluss
admin | March 30, 2024
Amsterdam has announced that it will repay 100,000 in recognition of the money the city made from tram tickets to take 48,000 Jewish people on towards Nazi death camps during World War II. Following the release of the film Verdwenen Stad (Lost City) by Emmy-winning film director Willy Lindwer, investigating the role of the city tram service in collaborating with the Nazis, the city has announced a repayment and memorial boards at major stations. The question was never answered of how is it possible to get 80,000 people out of a city like Amsterdam, in a little over a year, Lindwer told Dutch News
admin | March 30, 2024
Everything you will hear today is true the events and the stories. Thats how Andie Weiner, the 2024 Holocaust Legacy Foundation Gideon Klein Scholar, prefaced her presentation at the kick off of Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week at Northeastern University. The presentation, also her capstone project, was a solo biographical performance that told the story of how her grandfather, Jack or Joop Groothuis, escaped the Netherlands as it was under Nazi occupation and fled to the United States
admin | March 30, 2024
For her efforts to educate young people about the Holocaust, a Moorpark High School student won a prestigious award from the nonprofit David Labkovski Project. Based in West Hills, DLP seeks to combat antisemitism by teaching students about the Holocaust through art
admin | March 30, 2024
A California lawmaker, along with the states lieutenant governor, announced legislation on Thursday to help California residents reclaim personal property stolen from them during the Holocaust. The law comes after a controversial case that was affirmed in a California court last month, in which Claude Cassirer, a California resident, discovered that a painting was on display in Spain that Nazis had stolen from a relative of his in 1939. Under California state law, Cassirer, the sole heir to the paintings original owner, had legitimate ownership of the artwork.
admin | March 30, 2024
Joey King steps back in time in We Were the Lucky Ones, portraying a Jewish woman whose family seeks refuge during the Holocaust. King, 24, identifies as Jewish but tells PEOPLE in this weeks issue that she doesnt consider herself a religious person. I don't know exactly what I believe in, she explains.
admin | March 30, 2024
President Carol Folt presented Holocaust survivors and leaders of the Shoah Foundation The Institute for Visual History and Education with the University Medallion, the fourth time USC has awarded this recognition in its history. The ceremony recognized the Shoah Foundations 30th anniversary and honored the over 30 Holocaust survivors in attendance
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