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Fast Forward Former NBA Star Ray Allen Writes Moving Account Of His Auschwitz Visit
(JTA) — Until recently, Ray Allen was known for being the NBA’s all-time leader in made three-pointers. Then last December, President Obama appointed the former All-Star as a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. It was a surprising announcement to those who didn’t know Allen had been taking his teammates to the U.S. Holocaust…
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Fast Forward 96-Year-Old Auschwitz Guard Can Go To Prison Despite Age
(JTA) — Prosecutors in the German state of Hanover say that a 96-year-old former Auschwitz guard is fit to serve a prison sentence. Oskar Groening was convicted and sentenced in July 2015 to four years in prison for his role in the murder of 300,000 Hungarian Jews at the camp in Poland. A federal appeals…
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Fast Forward Traveling Holocaust Exhibit Aims To Make History Accessible
The first traveling Auschwitz exhibit will bring artifacts to people around North America and Europe in an attempt to make Holocaust education more accessible, according to The New York Times reported Wednesday. The exhibit has been in the works for seven years. It may charge a small entrance fee but will be free for students,…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Artifacts Sent On Tour For First Time
(JTA) — The museum at Auschwitz announced the first traveling exhibit about the Nazi concentration and extermination camp featuring more than 600 original artifacts. The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland announced the exhibit in a news release Wednesday, saying it will visit seven cities in Europe beginning with Madrid and the same number in North…
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Fast Forward Israeli Student’s Art Project Contains Relics Taken From Auschwitz
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The final project of an Israeli art student who said she used artifacts she removed from Auschwitz will go on display after she clarified that they came from outside the former Nazi camp. Beit Berl College announced late last week following a disciplinary hearing with student Rotem Bides, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors,…
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Fast Forward Israeli Student Faces Charges For Stealing Auschwitz Artifacts For College Art Project
An Israeli art student is in hot water after she admitted stealing artifacts from Auschwitz for a senior art project. Rotem Bides, 27, a student at Beit Berl College in Kfar Saba, told the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper that she stole the objects, including glass shards and soup bowls, in the course of six trips to…
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Fast Forward Survivors’ Granddaughter Defends Snatching Auschwitz Relics: ‘Something I Had To Do’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum located on the site of the former Nazi camp said it will file a complaint with the Polish prosecutor against an Israeli woman who removed relics from site. Rotem Bides, 27, an art student at the Beit Berl College, visited the Auschwitz site six times and removed…
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Fast Forward Did Travel Agents Fix Prices For Trips To Polish Holocaust Memorial Sites?
Fourteen Israeli travel agents are suspected of colluding to fix prices on youth trips to Holocaust memorial sites in Poland, and may face prosecution. According to the Times of Israel, the charges seem to be that “the four companies agreed not to compete against one another and made false presentations to clients to create the…
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