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The organization’s leaders announced today, that owing to the spread of coronavirus, especially in Europe and United States, this year’s March of the Living in Poland will be postponed. March of the Living World Chair, Dr. Shmuel Rosenman said, “After consulting with the relevant health bodies and officials, it is…

Organizers of the March of the Living on Sunday said the annual Holocaust commemoration in Poland has been postponed from its April date due to the coronavirus outbreak. “After consulting with the relevant health bodies and officials, it is with a heavy heart that we are forced to announce the…

The artifact, which provides yet another proof of Nazi crimes during World War II, was presumably created in Buchenwald, one of the Third Reich’s largest death camps.The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum says it had obtained a photo album bound with a cover made of human skin. The shabby book was…

Home   >   Israel News Max Privler, who died last month, was 11 when he crawled out from under his father’s body and escaped a killing pit One day in March 1942, Gestapo members and Ukrainian policemen burst into the home of the Privler family in Mykulychyn, then in…

Organisers of the March of the Living insisted that the annual international commemoration in Poland was on course for April despite the cancellation of some delegations over coronavirus fears. On Thursday, following the discovery of the first confirmed case of coronavirus in Poland, the ORT school in Lyon, France, announced…

Dr. Rafael Medoff Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and author of more than 20 books about the Holocaust, Zionism, and US Jewish history. His latest book, The Jews Should Keep Quiet: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and…

An energetic chaos pulses through the Berlin International Film Festival, Europes largest film festival and the place to see more than 400 films screened across a dizzying array of sections. Reflective of the city itself, the Berlinale, as its known here, is … Read More

The first commandant of the Nazi labor camp at Plaszow successfully hid his identity after World War II. But now, the true story of Horst Pilarzik's secret life has come to light. A sporty Mercedes with a handsome man at the wheel pulls up at the sidewalk. Nearby, a young…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood mustered its creative forces in the 1940s when Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany sought to conquer the world, with Humphrey Bogart standing up to the fascist regime in “Casablanca” and director Ernst Lubitsch mocking it and its dictator in “To Be or Not to Be.” More…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood mustered its creative forces in the 1940s when Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany sought to conquer the world, with Humphrey Bogart standing up to the fascist regime in “Casablanca” and director Ernst Lubitsch mocking it and its dictator in “To Be or Not to Be.” More…