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“We owe this to them,” Erika Jakubovits, who organized the Jewish Community of Vienna vaccination drive, told AP. By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA   JANUARY 28, 2021 06:38 An ICEJ volunteer nurse caring for a Holocaust survivor in Haifa amid the Coronavirus crisis. (photo credit: ICEJ) The main representative body of Austrian…

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Lawrence O’Donnell says “we now live in a country where not everyone is horrified by” the atrocities of the Holocaust. He quotes the late Congressman Tom Lantos, a Holocaust survivor, who said: “The veneer of civilization is paper thin. We are its guardians, and we…

Rabbi Shaul Nekrich holds the Sulzbach Torah Scroll in a ceremony at the Reichstag building in Berlin. (Odd Andersen/Associated Press) A Jewish prayer for the souls of people murdered in the Holocaust echoed Wednesday over the site where the Warsaw ghetto stood during World War II as a world gripped…

All U.S. states report Covid vaccine shortages, President Biden signs executive orders on climate change, and Holocaust survivors share their stories virtually to educate younger generations.Jan. 28, 2021 Read More

Holocaust survivors Toby Levy and Marion Blumenthal Lazan talk to Lester Holt about their determination to educate younger generations as they share their stories virtually amid the pandemic.Jan. 28, 2021 Read More

Six million Jews and the millions of others who died in the Holocaust were remembered Wednesday during International Holocaust Remembrance Day. According to a Newsweek report, one-third of Americans do not believe that 6 million Jews were killed. In the age of the internet, despite countless victim testimonies and ample…

On a July 2017 royal tour of Germany and Poland, Kate Middleton met Zigi Shipper and Manfred Goldberg, two Holocaust survivors who met in the Stutthof concentration camp, found each other again after liberation, and have remained friends ever since. To mark this year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day despite the coronavirus…

As an adult visiting Germany, when he would see people his age he would wonder what they had done in the Nazi years Ludwig Joseph and granddaughter, Nicole Karlis | Ludwig with family and friends on vacation (Photo illustration. by Salon/Nicole Karlis/USC Shoah Foundation) I didn't grow up belonging to…

On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Antonio Conte and Javier Zanetti visited the Memorial of the Shoah in Milan today. “As per tradition, Inter visited the Memorial of the Shoah in Milan to honour the memory of Árpád Weisz and the millions of victims of the Holocaust,” Inter’s official announcement…