Holocaust

Each morning, for 467 days now, Mandy Damari has awoken and repeated the same mantra to her feisty, charismatic daughter Emily. ‘Keep strong, keep alive – you are going to be OK,’ she tells the 28-year-old Tottenham Hotspur fan. Mrs Damari says she then gives her daughter an imaginary hug.…

The organiser of the National Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration has defended its decision to invite President Michael D Higgins to give the keynote address, despite opposition from some in the Jewish community. Mr Higgins will address the annual gathering which takes place this year on Sunday January 26th in the…

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George Shefi meets with German Ambassador to Israel Steffen Seibert at the ambassador's residence in Herzliya on Jan. 10, 2025. (Photo: March of the Living) The Federal Order of Merit was awarded on Friday to Holocaust survivor George Shefi (89) for his contributions to Holocaust education. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier…

The University of Bristol fired Miller in 2021 for a series of controversial statements, including claims that Israel wanted to "impose will all over the world." By MICHAEL STARR JANUARY 8, 2025 17:44 Updated: JANUARY 8, 2025 19:07 FRANCESCA ALBANESE, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories…

French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen has died at the age of 96. Le Pen, who had been in a care facility for several weeks, died at midday on Tuesday “surrounded by his loved ones,” the family said. Le Pen was a Holocaust denier and an unrepentant extremist on race,…

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Agnes Keleti, a Holocaust survivor and the oldest living Olympic medal winner, has died. She was 103. Hungarian great captured 10 medals in career interrupted by World War II, 2 cancelled Olympics The Associated Press · Posted: Jan 03, 2025 11:13 AM EST | Last Updated: January 3 Agnes Keleti…

World’s oldest Olympic champion and Holocaust survivor, Agnes Keleti has died, just a week to her 104th birthday anniversary. She was born on January 9, 1921 in Budapest as Agnes Klein, she later changed her surname to the more Hungarian-sounding Keleti. Keleti passed away on Thursday at Budapest hospital where…

On the short spring night of May 11, 1943, Szmul Zygielbojm—a Jewish Polish exile in despair—sat down and typed three letters in his flat, overlooking Porchester Square, near Paddington Station, in London. Zygielbojm was forty-eight years old, a pale figure with a small mustache. Two fingers were missing from his…