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Fast Forward Amulet Created By Son For His Mother in Lodz Ghetto Recovered
The existence of an amulet created in the Lodz Ghetto by a son for his mother was recently discovered. “With love to Mom, from Avram. Lodz Ghetto. March, 1943,” reads the inscription on the amulet, made from two old coins. The son apparently created the amulet for his mother so she would not forget him…
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Fast Forward Nazi ‘Euthanasia’ Victims Commemorated With New Berlin Memorial
Some 300,000 people with physical or mental disabilities who were killed under Nazi Germany’s “euthanasia” program because their lives were deemed unworthy were commemorated on Tuesday with the opening of a memorial in Berlin. Relatives of the victims joined Mayor Klaus Wowereit and members of the public to lay wreaths and white roses in front…
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News In Chicago, Poles and Jews Come Together for Lodz
On paper, Chicago seems like the ideal venue for a relationship to flourish between American Jews and Polish Americans. The city has the second-largest Polish population in the world (after Warsaw) and a sizable Jewish community of more than 300,000. But relations over the years between the two communities have been “like two ships passing…
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Opinion Moral Emptiness of Holocaust Survivors Who Took on Israel
Given Hitler’s voluminous rants about Jews, it is not surprising that one aspect of his obsession is less known: the pleasure he took in the spectacle of Jews deriding and defaming other Jews. Hans Frank, one of Hitler’s top aides, quotes him as saying: “I am an innocent lamb compared to revelations by Jews about…
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The Schmooze Zara Pulls Striped ‘Holocaust’ Shirt
In worst idea ever, Zara sells shirt similar to that of Nazi camp inmates. On Israeli site too http://t.co/Kqs3PfXq31 pic.twitter.com/PRuEfn6Wsr — Oren Kessler (@OrenKessler) August 27, 2014 The international clothing chain Zara has apologized for offering for sale a blue and white striped shirt with a six –pointed yellow star on the chest. The shirt,…
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Opinion Don’t Return Your ‘Righteous Gentile’ Medal
Henk Zanoli is second from right in this 1942 family photo / Yad Vashem It was at the insistence of Rivka Ben-Pazi that Henk Zanoli was deemed a “righteous gentile” by Yad Vashem, Israel’s state Holocaust museum. Ben-Pazi wrote a book about the Jewish boy that Zanoli saved, Elchanan Hameiri, and eventually got the museum…
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Fast Forward 40 Holocaust Survivors Condemn Israel for Gaza War
Some 40 Jewish Holocaust survivors and more than 200 direct descendents of survivors signed a public letter condemning Israel’s military operation in Gaza. “As Jewish survivors and descendants of survivors and victims of the Nazi genocide we unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and the ongoing occupation and colonization of historic Palestine,” reads…
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News In Muslim Kosovo, Lingering Jews Stake Claim To Country’s Past — And Future
(JTA) — Boxing Club Prishtina is a squat building on a narrow street around the corner from the parliament in the heart of Kosovo’s capital city. Around the corner, a popular Italian restaurant draws the young Western Europeans and Americans in button-down shirts and open-toed heels who help keep the country running. Walk the other way…
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Fast Forward On his first trip to Auschwitz, New Jersey governor urges vigilance against rising antisemitism
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