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30th annual symposium on the Holocaust and genocide runs April 4 till 8 Holocaust

30th annual symposium on the Holocaust and genocide runs April 4 till 8

Although there will be a few in-person talks, all 14 presentations can be viewed via the Zoom videoconferencing program. Leonie Wolfram and Maximilian Staudacher are young Austrians known as gedenkdieners. Photo courtesy Vanier College. The Ukraine-Russia conflict, Indigenous genocide and online anti-Semitism: these are among topics to be covered during…
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March 31, 2022
In Ukraine, a Holocaust survivor killed by a Russian missile is buried in haste Holocaust

In Ukraine, a Holocaust survivor killed by a Russian missile is buried in haste

KHARKIV, Ukraine —  In a city stalked by death and bombardment, only four mourners gathered Thursday in a blustery chill for a final farewell to Boris Romantschenko. But in the six days since the 96-year-old survivor of Nazi concentration camps was killed by a Russian missile strike in the Ukrainian city…
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March 25, 2022
The War With Russia Is Reviving Past Traumas for Ukraine’s Vulnerable Holocaust Survivors Holocaust

The War With Russia Is Reviving Past Traumas for Ukraine’s Vulnerable Holocaust Survivors

In late February, four days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Inna Vdovichenko, a staffer in the Odessa office of the Jewish humanitarian organization JDC, was sitting in Natalia Berezhnaya’s home when an air raid alert began. Sirens blared. For Vdovichenko, who had come over to keep Berezhnaya company and to see…
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March 23, 2022
Holocaust survivor, 96, killed in Ukraine after Russian forces shell apartment Holocaust

Holocaust survivor, 96, killed in Ukraine after Russian forces shell apartment

A Holocaust survivor was killed in Ukraine when Russian forces shelled his apartment building in the eastern city of Kharkiv, a memorial foundation said Monday. Boris Romanchenko, 96, who survived several Nazi concentration camps, died Friday after the attack burned his building, the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation said. Romanchenko…
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March 22, 2022