Holocaust

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Solana Beach, CA, December 17, 2021 --(PR.com)-- North Coast Repertory Theatre presents Richard Dreyfuss in A Benefit Reading of: The Soap Myth. More than a half-century after WW II, a young investigative reporter finds herself caught between numerous versions of the same story as she befriends a Holocaust survivor (Richard Dreyfuss)…

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Henry Orenstein, the innovator credited with inventing the Transformers toy franchise, has died. He was 98 years old. Orenstein, a Polish immigrant and Holocaust survivor, reportedly died at his home in New Jersey. Orenstein moved to the United States after World War II, and began working for Hasbro, contributing to…

The latest gift from Barry Zekelman and Zekelman Industries to the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan, is the largest single donation in the center's history. Author of the article: Dalson Chen Exterior of the Zekelman Family Campus at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Photo by…

New York Jewish Week via JTA — In January of 1943, Irma Lauscher, a teacher at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, smuggled a tree into the camp so that the Jewish children imprisoned by the Nazis could celebrate Tu B’Shevat in a secret ceremony. The children used their water…

A Calgary police officer is currently relieved from duty with pay for failing to adhere to the service's COVID-19 vaccination policy — and officials are looking into his role in posting a video on social media while in uniform, opposing the mandate and drawing comparison with the Holocaust and Hitler's…

Facebook made $780,000 selling ads with violent and anti-vaccine messages, CNN's Donnie O'Sullivan reported. It boosted at least four ads for shirts that compared vaccines to the Holocaust. The pages running the ads have fewer than 10,000 followers, but the ads reached around 1 million people each. Loading Something is…

Childhood best friends Ana María Wahrenberg and Betty Grebenschikoff said goodbye to each other in a German schoolyard in May 1939. Now the school pals, who were separated aged just nine when their Jewish families were forced to flee the Nazis, have hugged each other in person once again after…

GLASGOW, United Kingdom — The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby apologized on Monday for suggesting that the impact of climate change would be worse than Nazi genocide. Welby, the most senior cleric in the Church of England and leader of the worldwide Anglican communion, made the comments in an interview…