Holocaust

'In the case of the Ukraine war, escalation may lead to a nuclear holocaust, annihilation of life on earth,' writes Evelyn Tischer. Canada should broker a peace deal rather that commit tanks to Ukraine, writes Evelyn Tischer. Photo by Spencer Platt /Getty Images Federal Defence Minister Anita Anand announced on…

JTA — Germany held a ceremony to celebrate the first German-Jewish sites to be given UNESCO’s World Heritage designation on Wednesday. The sites in the upper part of the Rhine River valley are known as the origin point of Ashkenazi culture and where the Yiddish language first began to develop…

There has been virulent and negative reaction to this writer’s story, published last week, on the Holocaust. That was perhaps predictable, but it is still more than a little depressing. The article dealt with the virtual suppression, for many decades following World War II, of most public discourse on the…

The series features 28 hours of taped interviews with Adolf Eichmann, a leading perpetrator of the Holocaust’s “Final Solution” RAMLE, ISRAEL: (FILE PHOTO) Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann in his prison cell April 15, 1961 in Ramle, central Israel. The Israeli police donated Eichmann's original handprints, fingerprints and mugshot to…

A major Kentucky newspaper published an op-ed on National Holocaust Remembrance Day telling Jewish people that they "do not have a monopoly on persecution and atrocities." Even though the January 27 memorial focuses on the monumental tragedy of six million Jews killed by Nazi Germany during the Second World War,…

On the evening of January 24, my wife and I attended a Holocaust memorial concert at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa: Silent Tears, The Last Yiddish Tango. The performance was based on poems written by elderly Holocaust survivors. The project had originated as a therapeutic exercise led by social…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday repeated a claim that neo-Nazis were committing crimes in Ukraine — an allegation Moscow has used to justify its military intervention — as the world marked Holocaust Remembrance Day. “Forgetting the lessons of history leads to the repetition of terrible tragedies,” Putin said.  “This…

Maybe let’s not romanticize the life of history’s most famous Holocaust victim by setting her photos to t.A.t.U songs Anne Frank has become the subject of a questionable new TikTok trend. CBW/ALAMY Most reasonable people view the tale of Anne Frank, the young Jewish woman who died at the Nazis’ Bergen-Belsen concentration…

Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express. HOME News Showbiz & TV Sport Comment Finance Travel Entertainment Life & Style UK Politics Royal World US Science Weather Weird History Nature Sunday InYourArea The gunman was reportedly shot and killed in the Jewish neighbourhood of Neve Yaakov. 00:36, Sat, Jan…

(January 27, 2023 / JNS) The story of German ocean liner MS St. Louis, whose more than 900 Jewish refugees the Roosevelt administration turned away in 1939, proving a death sentence for 255, is famous. Lesser known is that of the three ships that arrived in the British Mandate Palestine…