In advance of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation announced that it has raised $140 million of its approximately $156 million campaign goal. The total includes $9 million in newly announced donations from six leading philanthropists. The campaign was created in 2009 by the independent foundation to fund a perpetual…
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend Holocaust commemorations in Poland this month, Interfax news agency quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying on Tuesday. Sources told Reuters on Monday that Putin was unlikely to join world leaders gathering at the site of the Auschwitz death camp because distrust caused by the conflict in Ukraine…
(Reuters) — Next month’s 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp is a reminder, at a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise again, of what happens when the world stays silent about persecution, the president of the World Jewish Congress said. Ronald S. Lauder told Reuters in an interview anti-Semitism had reached…
In the fall of 1972 I moved to Berlin from Frankfurt, Germany, to begin my studies at the Free University, which was founded in 1948 in the American zone. The upper-middle-class villas of this section of town had not been bombed during World War II; they had once been owned by well-to-do Jews who had…
Hungarian Jewish leaders said on Tuesday they may stay away from commemorations of the Holocaust in 2014 because of resurgent anti-Semitism in a nation that has struggled to come to terms with a wartime role in deporting Jews. The Hungarian government is planning to mark the 70th anniversary of June 1944, when 437,000 Jews were…
There are a handful of New York City landmarks that most people recognize: Lady Liberty. The Chrysler Building. And Katz’s Delicatessen. Opened on the Lower East Side in 1888 and purchased by the Russian Katz family in 1903, the delicatessen famous for its orgasmic pastrami sandwiches, its Friday evening frankfurters ‘n’ beans and its Cel-Ray…
Can you believe we first laid eyes on Seth and Summer exactly 10 years ago? Ouch. “The O.C.” is celebrating its tenth anniversary, and twenty-somethings everywhere are feeling their age. It’s hard to describe the impact that Josh Schwartz’s coming of age series had on people of my generation. “Influential”doesn’t begin to cover it. It…
Sunday, May 12, marks the fifth anniversary of the massive immigration raid that shook Postville, Iowa, in 2008. Some 1,000 federal, state and local agents descended on the tiny town, population 2,200, and arrested 389 undocumented immigrants working at the town’s largest employer, Agriprocessors, then the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse. To mark the anniversary, immigration…
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