Tag: shoah

“I never imagined I would see such unspeakable barbarity against Jews in my lifetime,” Spielberg said.

An estimated 65,000 individuals died at the camp near Gdansk, including "Jewish captives, Polish partisans, and Soviet Russian prisoners of war," according to prosecutors.

The Israeli Embassy there held a ceremony honoring Slovakian Righteous Among the Nations. It awarded six coins and certificates to six families who risked their lives saving persecuted Jews during the Holocaust.

Scholz appeared visibly upset by Abbas' use of the term "Holocaust" to describe the killings of civilians, restrictions on the rights of PA Arabs, and Israeli settlement in Judea and Samaria.

Zelenskyy used the memory of the Holocaust and its victims... But, his remarks have already made headlines in both international and Arab media, and you can't take it back.

The human bones were found in a basement, thought to have resulted from a Jew hiding from German forces that destroyed the area during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943.

It comes days after Poland passed a new law that sets a 30-year limit on restitution claims for property stolen by the Nazis during World War II, which has led to a row between Israel and Poland.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated the US is “deeply concerned” by the law and urged Duda not sign the bill into law or refer the bill to Poland’s constitutional tribunal.

“The passage of time is no barrier to justice when it comes to the heinous crimes of the Holocaust,” said Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Education Trust.

“I will be clear: We have decided that I as the Polish president will not participate in the event,” said Polish President Andrzej Duda, adding that not allowing him to publicly honor Polish victims of the Holocaust was equivalent to a “distortion of the historical truth.”

FDR's Administration blocked repeated calls for the bombing of the rail lines, bridges and crematoria at Auschwitz.

I remember growing up and wondering why my grandmother would jump and go pale every-time a glass broke in the house.

“Jewish life is blossoming again in Germany — an unexpected gift to us after the Shoah. But we are also witnessing a worrying anti-Semitism that threatens Jewish life in our country.”

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

Did FDR abandon the Jews during the Holocaust?

"We would take such action with great reluctance . . .but if the anti-Semitism unleashed continues unabated, Jews will face increasing threats.”

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

Restrictions on statements... regarding the Polish people's direct or indirect complicity with the crimes committed... during the Holocaust are a serious distortion.

“At Yad Vashem, there is an avenue along which there are trees which represent the Righteous Among the Nations. But one tree is missing . . ."

The term "Polish death camp" was first used by Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski in a 1944 article that was titled "Polish Death Camp."

I remember growing up and wondering why my grandmother would jump and go pale every-time a glass broke in the house.

Making sense out of our lives, and the nature of mankind.

Holocaust survivors are still struggling!

The way Holocaust is taught is a dis-service to our children.

European Parliament President Martin Schultz is one of two recipients of the 2016 Medal of Tolerance for his commitment to preserve the memory of the Shoah.

Neither side of the family knew anyone from the other side had survived the Holocaust!

The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure project convened 30 historians and researchers at Yad Vashem to provide tools to improve access to Holocaust documentation.

“One cannot fight against Arab terrorism and at the same time allow Israel to be eradicated at one of the noblest and most important hotels in Berlin,” Lanzmann wrote.

The motto 'NEVER AGAIN' has nothing to do with the Nazis....=

“We know that Albania is a good friend of Israel,” Prime Minister Netanyahu said to his Albanian counterpart. “We’re celebrating now 25 years of our relations.”