Tag: Holocaust

The Holocaust, Kristallnacht, and harrowing reports of conditions in concentration camps, as described by a British Senior doctor during his visit just after liberation.

"My late father, who died at the age of 102, in his later years received incredible care by a caregiver from the Philippines, Lee, a woman of exceptional compassion and intelligence."

“The thousands of Righteous Gentiles were not the rule. They were the exception that proved the rule.”

The new Yad Vashem exhibition tells how Jews yearned for Eretz Israel during and immediately following the Shoah in the years 1933-1948.

The anti-Semitic remarks by Abbas, said Greenblatt, are "very unfortunate, very distressing and terribly disheartening. Peace cannot be built on this kind of foundation.”

Abbas: “Such pogroms did not take place in Arab nations, which had Jewish communities.”

Did FDR abandon the Jews during the Holocaust?

Orly speaks with Holocaust survivor Samuel Schlesinger and future MK Roei Kashi from the Likud party. Orly also mentions and analyzes the current Syria-Russia-USA tensions and sends their leaders a personal message.

The most powerful week on the Israeli secular calendar is one that storms the Heavens and screams "ZIONISM"!

A visit to Auschwitz .

Malkah Fleisher joins Yishai to talk about the bad guys of the past and present. Then, Yishai visits Rabbi Mois Navon to search for the elusive Tekhelet snail. Finally, the words of Mike Bernath, Auschwitz survivor and heroic partisan, who passed away this year.

Iran warned Israel Wednesday that it would exact retribution for a missile strike on a Syrian air base earlier in the week in which at least seven Iranian military officials were killed.

The author of 'The Statement' forms his connection to all the characters. “I seem to have lived with these characters and shared their suffering,” he says.

If passed the legislation would grant money raised through donations to American schools as part of the Holocaust Education Assistance Program.

Oskar Groening, 96, was sentenced to a four-year prison term after his 2015 conviction as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 Hungarian Jews.

"There is evidence that Poles persecuted the Jews as vigorously as did the Germans during the occupation."

The annual meeting in Israel of the Leadership Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations and their achievements.

Poland just doesn't get it.

“The Polish prime minister’s remarks are grave,” Hotovely said, “and they call for an apology to the Jewish people for the distortion of Holocaust remembrance."

“There is a problem here of an inability to understand history and a lack of sensitivity to the tragedy of our people,” Netanyahu said.

Israeli lawmakers are calling for a reduction in the country's level of diplomatic engagement with Poland.

The museum would serve to rectify a “blind spot” that many Ukrainians have about their country’s role in the Holocaust.

Protesters held up banners in Hebrew and Polish reading ‘No law can change history’ and ‘Poles, we remember what you did.’

We are concerned that this law will have repercussions in the areas of Holocaust research, education and remembrance.

The Polish nation is passing a bill threatening a prison sentence of up to three years to anyone using the phrase “Polish death camps” to describe the extermination camps in Poland during WWII.

Rabbi Moshe Azman wants the March of the Living trips moved out of Poland.

“Anti-Semitic statements are overflowing the internet channels in Poland, [and] they have become present on the main stream media too."

"If we do not succeed in passing the torch of memory to future generations throughout the world, the lesson will not be learned.”

We've spent the past few days deleting a lot of horribly anti-Semitic comments written by Polish commenters.

Does Poland have a right to claim innocence?