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Culture Meet the World’s First 3-D Interactive Holocaust Survivor
Pinchas Gutter sits in a red chair in front of a black background. He hunches forward and rests his hands on his knees, his elbows bent. He wears a slate sweater vest with matching slacks. His skin tone looks just a bit too orange. He sits mostly still, but every so often he nods his…
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Fast Forward Hungary Cache of 6,300 Holocaust Documents Unearthed Behind Wall
A cache of documents that make up a census of Budapest’s Jewish population in 1944 before the liquidation of the city’s Jews to Nazi death camps was found hidden in a wall during the renovation of an apartment in the city. A cache of documents that make up a census of Budapest’s Jewish population in…
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Fast Forward Dutch Town That Once Segregated Jewish Pupils Plans Holocaust Memorial
A Dutch municipality where a local school had segregated Jewish pupils from members of the royal family decided to erect a monument commemorating Holocaust victims. The municipality of Baarn near Utrecht, 25 miles from Amsterdam, announced last week it would erect the monument near its central station in January 2016 at a cost of $13,000,…
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Israel News Holocaust Survivors Go Hungry as Israel Court Battle Locks Up Cash
Rachela Segal and her husband, Strul Segal, elderly Holocaust survivors living outside Tel Aviv, haven’t eaten chicken or fruit for weeks. At the market, they now even find it hard to afford to buy vegetables. “So I buy less, and Grade B. I go to buy vegetables, and 100 shekels flies,” Rachela Segal said. For…
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Forward 50 2015 Dustin Fleischer
Twenty-six-year-old box-er Dustin Fleischer walks into every match wearing tiger-striped trunks blazoned with a gold Star of David. Known as “The White Tiger,” Fleischer, the grandson of Holocaust survivor Bernard Fleischer, has wholeheartedly incorporated his grandfather’s story into his own career. Speaking to The Jerusalem Post in September, Fleischer said, “My quest is to become…
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The Schmooze Rachel Weisz to Play Deborah Lipstadt in Holocaust Movie ‘Denial’
British actress Rachel Weisz has been tapped to play Deborah E. Lipstadt in “Denial,” a biopic based on Lipstadt’s courtroom drama with David Irving, who sued her for libel when she accused him of being a Holocaust denier. Adapted for screen from Lipstadt’s book, the North American rights to the movie were bought by Bleecker…
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Art Can the Museum of Jewish Heritage Survive?
The Museum of Jewish Heritage is located at the tip of Manhattan, in Battery Park, nestled beside a quaint garden with panoramic views of the Statue of Liberty. Offering three floors of teachings on Jewish life, with objects culled over the past century, the museum aims to educate viewers about Jewish life before, during and…
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The Schmooze Nathan Fielder’s Holocaust Awareness Windbreakers Are a Hit With Celebs
Sometimes things that start as jokes grow to be legitimate ventures. Cough, Trump, cough. Same can be said of , comedian Nathan Fielder’s new outerwear company the proceeds of which go toward Holocaust awareness. No, we’re not joking. And neither are the celebrities that have taken a real liking to the quality of Summit Ice…
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