Holocaust

To a certain class of traveler, Evian les Baynes, a five-star French resort overlooking Lake Geneva, is synonymous with the highest realm of luxury living. But 85 years ago, to hundreds of thousands of Austrian and German Jews desperate for foreign sanctuary, Evian meant something else: hope. President Franklin D.…

(July 14, 2023 / JNS) Following a hiatus since 2019 due to COVID, the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous again brought together a group of Poles who put their lives on the line to fight genocide. At the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jewry in Warsaw, leaders in…

Roseanne Barr is back at it. Weeks after sparking backlash over comments she made about the Holocaust, Barr appeared on British tabloid host Piers Morgan’s show on Monday to address the controversy—only for the interview to implode over her claims that Ukraine is full of Nazis and Ukrainian President Volodymyr…

R achel Riley will receive an MBE at Windsor Castle for her work in raising awareness of the Holocaust and combating antisemitism. The Countdown presenter, 37, was honoured for her services to Holocaust education as an avid campaigner in the New Year Honours list. She was a vocal critic of…

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The estimated construction cost for the planned Holocaust Memorial next to Parliament has increased by almost £30m in the past year. In a written statement last week, housing minister Felicity Buchan said that the forecast total cost of the project, excluding contingency, had risen from £102.9m in March 2022 to…

Even if we give Roseanne Barr the benefit of the doubt, her comments still offer cover for further hate speech and violence. Steven Gimbel and Gwydion Suilebhan  |  Opinion contributors During a podcast interview with comedian Theo Von, Roseanne Barr recently said, “Nobody died in the Holocaust, either. That’s the…

In ‘Tiger Within,’ which hits select theaters on Friday, the Emmy-winning actor explores forgiveness as he befriends the troubled child of a Holocaust denier JTA — The prolific Jewish actor Ed Asner died nearly two years ago, but his final film will hit select theaters on Friday. In “Tiger Within,”…

At 102 years of age, Ella Blumenthal’s voice is one of the last living testimonies interceding on behalf of millions of Jewish cries that never made it out of the gas chambers. Despite bearing witness to innumerable war crimes that engulfed her during the Nazi occupation of Poland, incredibly these…

The riots across the French city initially started as a reaction to the murder of a 17-year-old by French police. Published: JULY 1, 2023 02:54 Updated: JULY 1, 2023 21:47 The Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. (photo credit: FLICKR) Rioters vandalized a Holocaust memorial site in the Paris suburb of…