Holocaust

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Two sisters who survived the Holocaust as girls and moved to the United States afterward died just days apart in their adopted home of Alabama. The Alabama Holocaust Education Center said Ruth Scheuer Siegler died Saturday at the age of 95. Her sister, Ilse Scheuer Nathan, died 10 days earlier…

BERGEN-BELSEN, Germany (AP) — They call him the ultimate survivor: Shaul Ladany lived through a Nazi concentration camp and escaped the massacre of 11 fellow Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Decades later the 86-year-old is back in Germany to visit the two places where he narrowly…

Masked thugs stage vile nazi stunt at Holocaust MuseumAnti-hate campaigners say an “abhorrent” social media stunt at a sacrosanct site shows Adelaide’s neo-Nazi “contagion” is spiralling out of control. There is more to this story But it’s a member-only story. Subscribe today to unlock it and more… Masked thugs stage…

JTA — Campus police are investigating an incident in which four men hung banners over a highway overpass at the University of California, Davis, that read “Communism is Jewish” and “The Holocaust is an anti-white lie.” The white men wore black clothing and masks during the incident on Sunday, according…

Sometimes a world leader's toxicity is clear for all to see. Such a moment arrived for the Palestinian Authority's (PA's) Mahmoud Abbas on Aug. 16, when standing alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin, he outrageously claimed that Israel had committed "50 Holocausts" against the Palestinians. Granted that dictatorships habitually…

JTA — Growing up in Buffalo, New York, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer always knew he was the child of Holocaust survivors. His parents, both Polish Jews, told him often about their experiences surviving the concentration camps. “I knew many children of Holocaust survivors whose parents didn’t speak about it,” Blitzer…

FALCON HEIGHTS, Minnesota (AP) — Minnesota Governor Tim Walz criticized Republican challenger Scott Jensen on Thursday for repeated comments that equated masking rules and other restrictions the governor imposed early in the COVID-19 pandemic with the rise of authoritarianism in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Walz said such casual Holocaust…

Amblin Television is partnering with Scholastic Entertainment, the media division of Scholastic, and Marlee Matlin’s Solo One Productions to co-develop and co-produce a new live-action limited series based on the Scholastic youth memoir “Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust,” by Renee Hartman and written by Joshua M. Greene.…

(RNS) — Quick Arabic lesson. The word is “zalla.” Translation (into French, of course): “Faux pas.” That would pretty much define what Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas committed recently in Germany. A reporter in Berlin asked Abbas if he was ready to apologize for the killing of 11 Israeli athletes…

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 15-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world, from Sunday through Thursday. Political correspondent Tal Schneider and features writer Renee Ghert-Zand join host Amanda Borschel-Dan. Rabbi Shalom Cohen, the influential spiritual leader of the…