North Woodmere resident Bernard Igielski fulfilled a lifelong dream by meeting a relative of Dr. Berthold Epstein, the man who saved his life four times in Auschwitz.
More than 70 people gathered …
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By Jeffrey Bessen and Dena Gershkovich Nassau Herald
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6/28/18
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This week’s episode of “Drunk History” features a retelling of the hunt for Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Holocaust who escaped to Argentina but was eventually captured by …
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By Gabe Friedman, JTA
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6/27/18
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The state Senate last week unanimously passed a bill to have the state Education Department tudy — and how — school districts teach their students about the Holocaust. As the legislature …
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By Anthony O’Reilly, Baldwin Herald
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6/20/18
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Students in Yeshiva South Shore’s Mechina Division were visited by two Holocaust survivors, Jack Nayberg and Dora Siegelman.
Rabbi Yoni Escovitz, a seventh grade rebbi at YOSS and rav of …
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6/20/18
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HALB eighth graders presented the culmination of their year long “Names Not Numbers” project. This is a unique Holocaust oral history documentary project in which the students themselves …
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6/20/18
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A group representing children hidden during the Holocaust slammed the U.S. border policy of separating families seeking asylum.
“Separation of the family for us is probably the worst thing …
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By Josefin Dolsten, JTA
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6/20/18
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HANIA, Crete — On Sunday, 263 candles will be lit at an interfaith memorial service at the city’s historic Etz Hayyim synagogue. The names of local Jews who perished during the Holocaust …
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By Roger Rapoport, JTA
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6/14/18
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When Holocaust historians ask what Americans knew, the focus often is on lawmakers, whose initiatives might have mitigated the Nazi genocide. An exhibit that opened last month at the U.S. Holocaust …
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA
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6/14/18
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A decade ago, relatively few people in Russia knew about Sobibor, the smallest-scale facility of the six killing centers that the Nazis built in occupied Poland.
This relative obscurity persisted …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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5/16/18
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In 2008, famed comic book artist Neal Adams and Holocaust historian Rafael Medoff teamed up to create a comic about Dina Babbitt, a Czech Jewish artist forced by the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele to …
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By Josefin Dolsten, JTA
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5/11/18
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