Holocaust

JTA — Seventy-eight years ago this week, David Ben-Gurion rose before the Asefat Hanivcharim, Palestine Jewry’s elected assembly, and delivered an explosive “J’accuse” against the Allies for abandoning Europe’s Jews during the Holocaust. The words of the man who would soon be Israel’s first prime minister take on added significance…

A good documentary about a well-known historical epoch reaffirms what we knew. A great one reaffirms what we knew but, through relentless and surprising detail, makes the history new and relevant. The U.S. and the Holocaust, the new three-part documentary from Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein, makes the…

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Using Holocaust monument for photo shoots ‘completely inappropriate,’ community members sayMembers of several local organizations say the purpose of the National Holocaust Monument is sombre reflection and education, not as a backdrop for photo shoots. Members of the Jewish community say more needs to be done to educate the public…

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…