Holocaust

LOS ANGELES (JTA) — When Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff sat down for a Zoom conversation with Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter earlier this month, he opened by saying, “I feel like I already know you!” Though the two had never met, Emhoff did, to an extent, know Gutter. Just moments before…

A senior police officer from Kent, Washington, will receive $1.5m in order to resign in a settlement with the city after an investigation into antisemitic behavior, including pinning Nazi insignia on his office door. Assistant police chief Derek Kammerzell was initially suspended after multiple complaints surfaced in September 2020 from…

An image shared on Facebook over 120 times purportedly shows an article published by The Guardian that refers to the defamation trial of actor Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard as a “female Holocaust.” Verdict: False The image is digitally fabricated. The actual article from The Guardian refers to…

You can argue with Saskatoon-Grasswood MP Kevin Waugh’s priorities, but he’s managed some key accomplishments as a Conservative backbencher. Usually, expecting achievements from an Opposition backbencher is like waiting for a great album from a one-hit wonder. While Waugh is not exactly pumping out hit after hit, he’s also not…

Another batch of anti-Semitic materials have been located in Wilmette, village officials announced Wednesday. Following a similar incident in late April, packets with anti-Semitic hate speech were discovered Wednesday morning in approximately five village parkways in the 1300 block of Chestnut Avenue, according to a village statement. The flyers contained…

Margot Heuman, the first lesbian Jewish holocaust survivor to testify about her experience in the concentration camps, died on May 11 at age 94.  Born in 1928 Germany, Heuman grew up in Bielefeld and was the eldest of two daughters. In 1943, her family were arrested and deported to Theresienstadt…

Thousands of Jewish youth were originally slated to attend the 2022 International March of the Living in Poland—for many, their first in-person event since the start of the pandemic. The annual event, which took place this year in late April, brings together Jewish youth from around the world to visit…

Convicted Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann is heard but not seen in a new film as an actor mouths the words he used over 60 years ago to describe his key role in the Holocaust. Eichmann, a key architect of Nazi Germany’s Final Solution, went into hiding after the war…

Auburn men's basketball coach Bruce Pearl referenced the biblical story of Esther in defending the Ukrainian people during a press conference over the weekend, saying he's "all in" in helping the war-torn country. According to Yahoo News, Pearl, who is Jewish, made the remarks during a press conference Saturday after…

MONTREAL (JTA) — In her 96 years on earth, Lilly Toth didn’t get much of a formal education. Born in Budapest in 1925, the self-proclaimed spoiled brat often misbehaved and was frequently suspended from school. But instead of attending university in her late teens, the Holocaust survivor was literally running…