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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivor: North Korea’s Prisons Camps ‘Even Worse’ Than Auschwitz
A judge who survived the Holocaust called North Korean prison camps “as terrible or even worse” than Nazi concentration camps upon hearing testimony from former prisoners of the regime, The Washington Post reported. Thomas Buergenthal, who survived a ghetto in Poland and the Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen concentration camps as a boy, is a former human…
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Fast Forward Senate Unanimously Passes Bill To Help Holocaust Survivors Obtain Restitution
(JTA) — The Senate unanimously passed a bill to help Holocaust survivors and the families of victims obtain restitution or the return of Holocaust-era assets. The Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today, or JUST Act, which was introduced in February by Sens. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., received unanimous approval on Tuesday, The measure requires…
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Fast Forward When A Roy Moore Spokeswoman Shared A #NeverAgain Meme – About Gun Control
A spokeswoman for Roy Moore once posted a meme implying that if Jews in World War II-era Europe had guns, they would not have gone quietly to the death camps. “Why gun control?” the meme asked, over an image of Jews being loaded on freight trains by Nazi soldiers. “Because armed people will NOT willingly…
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Fast Forward Famed Holocaust Orphan Is Now A Loving Bubbe — With Many Ghosts
Ruth Saperstein Jaffe, of Sleepy Hollow, New York, was once Bela Raphael, an orphan of the Holocaust who brought hope to the world in the aftermath of the war. Brought to New York by a Jewish G.I. who pledged to raise a child orphaned by Hitler’s killing machine, Jaffe’s largely forgotten story is retold in…
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Forverts in English Grigory Kanovich’s Remarkable Love Song For a Lithuanian Shtetl
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Thanks to the hard work of his literary admirers, an English translation of Grigory Kanovich’s autobiographical novel “Shtetl Love Song” has finally appeared. The novel was released by a boutique British publishing house, Noir Press, that specializes in modern Lithuanian literature. It’s remarkable that one of the…
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Fast Forward Without Mentioning Trump, Obama Cites Hitler In Talk On Nationalism
At a recent talk, former President Barack Obama warned U.S. citizens not to “grow complacent,” citing the rise of Adolph Hitler in Germany’s culturally progressive Weimar Republic, Crain’s reported. The remarks came during a Q&A session at a meeting of the Economic Club of Chicago on Tuesday. “We have to tend to this garden of…
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Fast Forward Senate Committee Advances Restitution Bill For Holocaust Survivors
(JTA) — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee advanced a bill that will help Holocaust survivors and the families of victims obtain restitution or the return of Holocaust-era assets. On Tuesday, the committee unanimously passed the Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today, or JUST Act. The legislation requires the State Department to report on the progress of…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Survivor Diary Shows How Hope For Revenge Kept Him Going
A Greek Holocaust survivor’s diary of his time in Auschwitz was only recently translated — and it shows how revenge kept him alive after he lost hope, the New York Post reported. Marcel Nadjari stuffed his account of life in the concentration camp into a thermos and buried it in 1944. Though the manuscript was…
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