Holocaust

The Survivor The film, The Survivor, debuts on HBO on Wednesday, April 27, at 8 p.m. ET. It tells the story of boxer and Holocaust survivor Harry Haft.  Everyone has a story to tell, but for some reason, boxers’ lives tend to yield some of the most powerfully dramatic stories imaginable.…

OTTAWA -- Holocaust denial is to be outlawed in Canada, in a further effort to stamp out rising antisemitism. The federal government is set to make it a criminal offence to make a statement denying the Holocaust took place or condoning or downplaying the killing of Jews by the Nazi…

OTTAWA - Holocaust denial is to be outlawed in Canada, in a further effort to stamp out rising antisemitism. People take photos as they enter the Sachsenhausen Nazi death camp through the gate with the phrase 'Arbeit macht frei' (work sets you free), in Oranienburg, about 30 kilometres north of…

NewsUKCrimeThe London Historic Parks and Gardens Trust is opposed to a new UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre being built in Victoria Tower Gardens.Campaigners are due to learn whether or not they have won a High Court challenge over plans to build a national Holocaust memorial next to the Houses…

Africa is generally believed to have a poor health system that any deadly epidemic would easily defeat. It was almost given, when in late 2019 that COVID-19 broke out, that the world had seen a holocaust in Africa. Though there was great concern that COVID-19 would overwhelm the global health…

JTA — In a few short weeks, the excruciating, pandemic-prolonged wait will be over: Season two of “Russian Doll” is finally dropping on Netflix on April 20, 2022. According to some new and exciting teasers, it seems that the wait will have been well worth it for Jewish fans. In…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (JTA) – Two months ago, shortly after the Olympics began in Beijing, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) took a shot at China for its treatment of the Uighur minority group. “At the #Olympics you’ll see a well-known tradition — the torch relay — which the Nazis used…

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FRANKFURT: Eight decades after Raisa Valiushkevych fled Ukraine to escape Nazi Germany's invasion, the 98-year-old Holocaust survivor found herself fleeing again - this time to Germany, to escape Russian shells falling around her home in Kyiv. Speaking at a Jewish care home in Frankfurt, the retired teacher said it felt…

The meaning of ‘Survivor’ Barry Levinson, who can paper walls with his 21 Emmy nominations, has directed “The Survivor,” a true story from Alan Haft’s book “Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano.” In Auschwitz, Harry Haft survives unspeakable horrors. For amusement, SS captors bent on destroying him forced…