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The Schmooze How Shirley Temple Helped Me Come to America
Shirley Temple in 1988 // Photo by Karen Leon. Shirley Temple Black — who died at 85 on February 10 — may have indirectly helped my mother and me get a visa to America. I became a Shirley Temple fan after seeing her in “The Little Colonel” in pre-war Warsaw. For weeks I ran around singing…
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Breaking News British Lawmaker Apologizes For Comparing Occupation to Shoah
A British lawmaker apologized for remarks comparing Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to Jewish suffering during the Holocaust. Yasmin Qureshi of the Labor Party made her apology in a statement on Friday for remarks she made two days earlier to the Parliament. “The debate was about the plight of the Palestinian people and in no…
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Breaking News Hungary’s Jews Vote To Boycott Holocaust Memorials
Hungary’s main Jewish group voted on Sunday to boycott official Holocaust commemorations this year unless they more clearly show the role of local citizens in the Nazi deportation and killing of Hungarian Jews. The Hungarian Jewish Congregations’ Association (Mazsihisz) decided to stay away from events marking the 70th anniversary of June 1944, when 437,000 Jews…
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Breaking News Holocaust Survivor Leo Bretholz Gets 60K Signatures Against French Railroad Company
As a French rail company plans to lay down projects in several cities across the country, a 92-year-old Holocaust survivor is speaking out, demanding that the company first make amends for its role in transporting tens of thousands of people to their deaths in the Holocaust. Leo Bretholz, a Maryland Holocaust survivor, launched a change.org…
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Breaking News Hungary Jews Reject State Money for Holocaust Anniversary Events
Several Jewish organizations in Hungary as a form of protest will not accept government grants for memorial events marking the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust. The groups are protesting what they consider the state’s whitewashing of Hungary’s role in the Holocaust. The organizations turning down the grants from the Civil Fund include the Frankel Leo…
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Breaking News New Bill Would Make Companies Tied to Nazi Deportations Pay Restitution
A bill in which companies connected to the deportations of people to Nazi death camps must pay restitution before they can obtain a contract to work on a new rail line was introduced in the Maryland state Senate. State Sen. Joan Carter Conway, a Baltimore Democrat, introduced the legislation on Tuesday in response to reports…
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News Anne Heyman, Jewish Philanthropist, Dies in Florida Horse-Riding Accident
Anne Heyman, a pioneering Jewish philanthropist who founded a youth village for victims of the Rwanda genocide, has died in a Florida horse-riding accident. She was 52. Heyman died after falling from a horse at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center in the town of Wellington Friday morning. She was taken to a local hospital…
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News Anne Heyman’s Sudden Death Plunges Rwanda School Into Mourning
A trailblazing Rwanda school for genocide orphans was plunged into intense mourning Saturday by the death of its founder Anne Heyman — revered by students as a “second mother.” Heartbroken students at the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village, who lost their parents in the 1994 killing spree, wept openly after learning of the tragic death of the…
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