Holocaust

New York (AFP) - A Jewish ram's horn instrument hidden and blown behind the barbed wire of Auschwitz was shown publicly for the first time Monday in New York, where it will be included in an exhibition. The shofar -- a wind instrument traditionally used at s…

Actress Alex Borstein honored her grandmother (and mother) during her moving acceptance speech at the 2019 Emmy awards, which took place at LA's Microsoft theater on Sunday. Borstein, who won the award for best supporting actress in a comedy for her role o…

In accepting her second back-to-back Emmy in the best supporting actress comedy category tonight for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Alex Borstein told a moving story onstage about her Holocaust survivor grandmother, and how she she can be example for women today …

Alex Borstein moved the audience to laughter and tears with her poignant acceptance speech at the 2019 Emmy Awards on Sunday. For the second year in a row, Borstein won the award for supporting actress in a comedy series for her role as brash comedy manager …

Marko Feingold, who survived Auschwitz, in Nazi-occupied Poland and several German concentration camps died at the age of 106 in the city of Salzburg on Thursday after a lung infection. The Auschwitz concentration camp was a complex of over 40 concentration …

The idea of paying reparations for slavery is gaining momentum in the United States, despite being long derided as an unrealistic plan, to compensate for state violence committed by and against people long dead. The topic saw substantive debate in the July 3…

Several years ago, I went off to research a remarkable community that has a history of sheltering vulnerable outsiders. I went looking for clues to how a community like that operates. I hoped I could learn some general lessons there about how groups of people…

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A man was cornered and beaten in what police are calling a random attack on a Brooklyn street.Surveillance video shows the disturbing incident on Warsoff Place between Flushing and Park Avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Four men can be s…

Holocaust survivors urge Congress to let them sue European insurance companies...

Holocaust survivors urge Congress to let them sue European insurance companies...