Holocaust

Joey Barton will escaped formal sanctions after sparking outrage by comparing a poor performance by his Bristol Rovers side to the Holocaust. Fabian Breckels, a Bristol councillor and associate member of the Jewish Labour Movement, said the former England player's comments were "appalling". However, Barton declined to apologise after telling…

The prayers and requests of dozens of Holocaust survivors were placed in the cracks between the wall's stones in a special ceremony. Published: OCTOBER 24, 2021 13:19 Dozens of notes written by Holocaust survivors living in the US were places in the Kotel last week as part of a special…

In this excerpt from Rebecca Frankel’s INTO THE FOREST: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love, Miriam Rabinowitz, in an overwhelming display of courage, surrounded by Nazis with their guns drawn, saves the life of a young boy named Philip Lazowski. In the early hours of April 30, 1942,…

LONDON — On February 9, 1943, Transport 46 left the Drancy concentration camp on the outskirts of Paris bound for Auschwitz. Among the 1,000 deportees being carried to their deaths was 73-year-old Aaron Ianco. Seven decades later, Ianco’s great-grandson, British photographer Marc Wilson, began a project that would see him…

David Sompolinsky, a prominent microbiologist who helped rescue hundreds of Jews in Denmark during the Holocaust, died last week at age 100 in the Israeli city of Bnei Brak, where he lived. Sompolinsky, a native of Copenhagen, died on October 13 and was buried in Rishon Lezion. When World War…

At a tense school board meeting Monday night in Southlake, Texas, a former student gave painful testimony about antisemitic bullying that he said he endured in the Carroll Independent School District.  Teachers grew emotional as they described feeling unsupported and under attack.   And many parents defended a district administrator who…

There is no 'opposing' perspective. Learning about the Holocaust cultivates an appropriate outrage at wrongs. Fern Schumer Chapman  |  Opinion contributor Children of Holocaust survivors and refugees felt a knife twist in their backs on learning that Gina Peddy, a school administrator with the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas,…

    FORT BELVOIR, VA, October 18, 2021 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Frank Cohn has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all…

A new Texas law designed to limit how race-related subjects are taught in public schools comes with so little guidance, the on-the-ground application is already tying educators up in semantic knots as they try to follow the Legislature's intent. In the most striking instance so far, a North Texas administrator…

Politics The incident in North Texas is the latest example of how schools, educators, and parents nationwide are clashing over what can and can't be taught in the classroom. By Meryl Kornfield and Timothy Bella, Washington Post October 16, 2021 A North Texas school district apologized late Thursday after an…