Holocaust memorials in Buchenwald and Berlin vandalized in same week
An association of Holocaust survivors called one incident a “hateful and calculated demonstration of power by neo-Nazis”
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Community The Incredible Story Of Einstein And The Orthodox Rabbi Who Saved The Boys Of Buchenwald
73 years ago today on April 11, 1945, United States forces liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. Among the liberators was one man whose little-known story can teach our world how to respond to the hundreds of thousands of traumatized, stateless refugees today. I discovered this man by accident. Five years ago I stumbled upon a poignant…
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Fast Forward Bulgarian Official Admits ‘Horsing Around’ On Buchenwald Trip
(JTA) — A leader of Bulgarian Jews condemned his country’s deputy prime minister, who said jokingly that he may have behaved inappropriately when visiting a former Nazi concentration camp. Valeri Simeonov, vice-president of the United Patriots and Bulgaria’s deputy prime minister, told the Sega newspaper on Tuesday he and some his friends may have taken…
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The Schmooze 70-Year-Old Letters Describe the Horrors of Buchenwald
“Yesterday we visited something that you might have already read about in the newspaper or heard about over the radio… Not very far from there is a concentration camp.” These words, written by Private Hyman Schulman, to his wife, Sandy, in Brooklyn, while he was in Europe during World War II, are part of TK…
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Culture The Boys of Buchenwald
The black-and-white photos on display couldn’t be more different. There’s Izio Rosenman, a young boy, held by his mother at a family picnic. Next to this 1937 photo we see Izio in a hammock with his two sisters. He seems content. In the other photo, Janek Szlajtsztajn and David Perlmutter sit behind the barbed wire…
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Breaking News Grandfather of California Killer Elliot Rodger Took Famed Concentration Camp Photos
The grandfather of the man suspected in the mass killing in Santa Barbara, California, was a famed British photojournalist who took iconic photos of Jewish survivors and mass graves at liberated concentration camps in the final weeks of World War II. Police identified Elliot Rodger, 22, a college student as the gunman who drove through…
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The Schmooze Is Buchenwald Survivor’s Israel Criticism ‘Abnormal’?
According to the Israeli government, the 93-year-old Buchenwald survivor is a liar. Decried by French embassy spokesperson Yaron Gamburg for spreading falsehoods about the Jewish state, Stéphane Hessel’s criticism of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians apparently does not correspond with reality. “It is a literary fad which will have no affect on the real world,…
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The Schmooze Gershom Scholem’s Brother
Many years ago, while researching German supporters of Holocaust reparations, I went in search of information on the social-democratic politician Kurt Schumacher. I found what I was looking for, but right next to Schumacher’s listing in an encyclopedia was a surprise: “Scholem, Werner, * 29.12.1895 Berlin, † 17.7.1940 KZ Buchenwald; konfessionslos.” It was Gershom Scholem’s…
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