Holocaust

Inherited trauma: Growing up the child of a Holocaust survivorA lot is known about the horrors experienced by Holocaust survivors. Now their children are sharing how the trauma their parents went through affected their own lives. WARNING: This story contains distressing details. The trauma of Holocaust survivors has been widely…

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27 January 2023 By Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB The ECB’s main building in Frankfurt stands on a site linked to the atrocities of the Holocaust. On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we affirm that tyranny and state injustice must never again prevail. Building European unity is a cornerstone of…

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He pledge to take action after campaigners won a legal battle to quash planning permission to build the centre in Victoria Tower Gardens using a 1900 law protecting the park land. The Holocaust Memorial Bill will update the historic legislation, removing a statutory obstacle that has previously prevented the building…

That’s according to his International Holocaust Remembrance Day statement. (January 27, 2023 / JNS) President Joe Biden said Thursday that he was motivated to run for his current office when Neo-Nazis and white nationalists marching in Charlottesville, Va., in the summer of 2017, were “spewing the same antisemitic bile we…

Twitter has been sued in Germany by an anti-hate-speech organization and Jewish students to force Elon Musk’s social media platform to block or remove antisemitic posts. Six examples of antisemitic comments detailed in the suit were all posted in the last three months, since Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion,…

A Florida woman has been arrested for defrauding an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor of nearly $3 million, authorities announced Wednesday. Peaches Stergo, 36, of Champions Gate, Florida, has been charged with one count of wire fraud after allegedly coercing millions from an unnamed Manhattan man between 2017 and 2021. "The defendant…

ByErin Blakemore Published January 27, 2023 • 13 min read Six million Jews murdered. Millions more stripped of their livelihoods, their communities, their families, even their names. The horrors of the Holocaust are often expressed in numbers that convey the magnitude of Nazi Germany’s attempt to annihilate Europe’s Jews. The…

(RNS) — David Schaecter is 93 and he is running out of time. He has dedicated the past 60 years to recounting his struggle for survival in Auschwitz, his escape and how he pieced his life together in the United States after losing his entire family in the Holocaust. As…