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EU Commission changes social media post about Auschwitz after protests from Poland
Poland on Sunday asked the European Commission to fix a social media post about the Holocaust, saying it wrongly linked the Auschwitz death camp to Poland.
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Nazi death camp survivors mark 79th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day
A group of survivors of Nazi death camps has marked the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during World War II in a modest ceremony in southern Poland. About 20 survivors from various camps set up by the Nazis laid wreaths and flowers Saturday at the Death Wall in Auschwitz. They will also hold prayers at the...
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Muslims and Jews in Bosnia observe Holocaust Remembrance Day and call for peace and dialogue
The two communities used the occasion on Saturday to launch the Srebrenica Muslim-Jewish Peace and Remembrance Initiative. The plan is aimed at promoting collaboration in times of crisis, maintaining consistent and compassionate channels of communication, remembering and commemorating the victims of past genocides and repudiating all forms of bigotry.
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Almost 80 years after the Holocaust, 245,000 Jewish survivors are still alive
Almost 80 years after the Holocaust, about 245,000 Jewish survivors are still living across more than 90 countries.
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Art exhibit at Brandeis University reimagines lives cut short by Holocaust
A new art exhibit on display at a Massachusetts college imagines a future that never occurred for people killed in the Holocaust. For those pictured in “Lives Eliminated, Dreams Illuminated” — now on exhibition at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University in Waltham — it isn’t about what could have been, but what should have been. “I feel compelled to…
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Florida woman who stole nearly $3 million from Holocaust survivor in romance scam gets four years in prison
A Florida woman who drained an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor’s life savings by posing as a love interest and then lived lavishly off the $2.8 million she got was sentenced Thursday to over four years in prison.
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Germany's biggest Jewish educational and cultural complex since the Holocaust to open in Berlin
Germany’s biggest Jewish educational and cultural complex since the Holocaust is set to open in Berlin, five years after the groundbreaking.
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Germany to give $1.4 billion to Holocaust survivors around the world in 2024
The organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis says that Germany has agreed to extend another $1.4
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Holocaust Survivor Shares 60-Year Secret: He Arrested One of Hitler's Top Officers
One of the architects of the Holocaust was Arthur Seyss-Inquart, one of the most loyal and high-ranking officers of Hitler’s Nazi party. He might have escaped justice the day the Nazis surrendered, if not for a NYC man who shared his heroic story for the first time
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Patriots Owner Kraft Joined by Meek Mill for Holocaust March
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is leading a delegation that includes rapper Meek Mill on a march in Poland to honor victims and survivors of the Holocaust. The 3-kilometer “March of the Living” is an annual commemoration that covers the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex, the largest Nazi concentration camp during World War II. The event is being attended by Kraft as...
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Holocaust Survivors, Descendants Join Forces on Social Media
More than 100 Holocaust survivors and their descendants are participating in a new social media campaign that illustrates the importance of passing on the Holocaust survivors’ testimonies as their numbers dwindle.
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Holocaust Survivor Shares on TikTok to Educate Young People
Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman is a TikTok star at age 85, thanks to her 17-year-old grandson. In the family living room in Morristown, New Jersey, Aron Goodman records his grandmother talking about her life in 1944 and 1945 as a 6-year-old child at the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. They say they clips have garnered 75 million views since...
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Auschwitz Survivors Mark 78th Anniversary of Liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Auschwitz-Birkenau survivors gathered in Poland to commemorate the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp.
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‘Children Need to Know': Holocaust Survivor Shares Story for Future Boston Holocaust Museum
Friday marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, and this year work is underway to open a Boston Holocaust Museum by 2025. Around 6 million European Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Tens of millions of people were killed in World War II, which lasted from 1939 to 1945. A key part of the experience will be that museum-goers will be able to…
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Holocaust Remembrance Day: Auschwitz Survivors Mark Anniversary of Liberation
Survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau are gathering to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp amid horror that yet another war has shattered peace in Europe.
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Holocaust Survivors Share Message of Hope During Hanukkah
Some 250,000 Holocaust survivors are still alive, living in Europe, Israel, the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Original Beethoven Score to Be Returned to Rightful Heirs
A musical manuscript handwritten by Ludwig van Beethoven is getting returned to the heirs of the richest family in pre-World War II Czechoslovakia
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Holocaust Survivors Offered Free DNA Tests to Help Find Long Lost Family Members
The New York-based Center for Jewish History is launching a project offering DNA testing kits for free to Holocaust survivors and their children. It’s an effort to help possibly find family connections torn apart in World War II. Genealogists say the advent of DNA technology has opened up a new world of possibilities in addition to the paper trails and...