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The Schmooze What Audrey Hepburn and Anne Frank Have in Common
Anne Frank would have liked Audrey Hepburn. After all, her with the teenager’s movie star aspirations. But the two actually share a much closer bond than you might think. According to a new memoir written by Hepburn’s son, the actress was one of the first to read what would become “Diary of a Young Girl,”…
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Breaking News French Lawmakers Pass Controversial Holocaust Compensation Bill
French lawmakers voted on Wednesday to create a $60-million fund to compensate Holocaust victims deported by French state rail firm SNCF to Nazi concentration camps in a move also intended to protect the company from future U.S. litigation. About 76,000 Jews were arrested in France during World War Two and transported in appalling conditions in…
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Breaking News New York City OK’s $1.5M for Poor Holocaust Survivors
New York City’s 2016 budget includes $1.5 million to assist Holocaust survivors living in poverty. The $78.5 billion budget finalized Monday night includes more than $25 million for senior services, JP Updates reported. The Survivor Initiative, a 3-year-old group that, according to its website, “seeks to raise awareness and funds to assure survivors live their…
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Breaking News Controversial Greek Holocaust Memorial Is Vandalized
A disputed Holocaust memorial in Greece was desecrated two weeks after its dedication. The black marble monument, which commemorates the 1,484 Jews from the northern port city of Kavala who were murdered by the Nazis, was discovered Monday to be covered in blue paint, according to The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece. “It…
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Breaking News Pope Laments World Powers’ Failure to Stop Holocaust
Pope Francis criticized the world powers for failing to stop the Nazis from deporting Jews and other minority groups to death camps in Europe during World War II. “The great powers had photographs of the railway routes that the trains took to the concentration camps, like Auschwitz, to kill the Jews, and also the Christians,…
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Breaking News Madrid Councilman Quits Over Holocaust ‘Ashtray’ Jibe
The Madrid alderman for culture under fire for posting a joke about the Holocaust on Twitter four years ago has resigned. Guillermo Zapata resigned Monday after opposition parties and the umbrella group for Jewish communities in Spain demanded he step down, the Spanish daily El Pais reported. Madrid Mayor Manuela Carmena, who took office on…
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Music When Alvin Ailey Choreographs the Holocaust
With the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater presenting a Holocaust inspired piece, “No Longer Silent,” at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, the iconic African American company has branched into new territory. In fact, it’s unprecedented, explained its artistic director Robert Battle, who choreographed the piece. Its musical score was composed by Erwin…
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Breaking News 200 Delegates Attend Hungary Holocaust Conference
Some 200 delegates representing 31 countries attended a concert kicking off the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance conference in Budapest. At the klezmer concert on Tuesday in the Dohany Street Synagogue, Janos Lazar, Hungary’s state secretary, said that Hungary “could not achieve what it did in the past centuries without our Jewish brothers.” At the biannual…
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