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Community We Have Not Yet Learned The Lessons Of The Holocaust
I am a formerly incarcerated Jewish lesbian and the daughter of two survivors of the Holocaust. In past years on Yom HaShoah, I watched my parents light candles and testify about their experience. Every time they spoke they relived the horrors they endured. For some seventy years, they, all survivors and the world, said “never…
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Community The Right Holocaust Lessons Can Help Us Prevent The Next One
The latest survey sending shockwaves through the Jewish community is one that found U.S. knowledge about the Holocaust to be severely lacking. According to a recent survey conducted by Schoen Consulting and commissioned by The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, almost 50 percent of Americans cannot name a single concentration camp. Of course,…
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Forverts in English Why Was Historian Who Blames Jews For Complicity with Nazis Considered For Humanitarian Prize?
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Jeffrey Gottlieb is getting fifteen minutes of fame for the second time in his life. The co-founder of the “Polish-Jewish Dialogue Committee,” Gottlieb has spoken with Jewish organizations and news outlets this week to explain why his group bestowed its “Jan Karski Humanitarian Award” on Ewa Kurek,…
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Fast Forward Jewish Sport Clubs Commemorate Soccer Teams Shuttered By Nazis
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Two Jewish sport clubs in Argentina honored their counterparts in Vienna and Warsaw, that were shuttered by the Nazis during the Holocaust. The Buenos Aires-based Hacoaj and Macabi sports clubs, as part of Holocaust Remembrance Day activities, wore authentic uniforms of the Hakoah Vienna and Makabi Warszaw teams during a…
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Fast Forward 22% Of Millennials Haven’t Heard Of The Holocaust, Study Finds
(JTA) — Over a fifth of millennials in the United States have not heard of or are unsure if they have heard of the Holocaust, a study found. The survey, which was commissioned by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (also known as the Claims Conference), found that many Americans were unaware of…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Astronaut Records Holocaust Remembrance Message In Outer Space
(JTA) — American astronaut Andrew “Drew” Feustel didn’t let being in outer space stop him from commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day. Instead, Feustel recorded a video message aboard the International Space Station to honor the six million Jews killed by the Nazis. In the video released on Thursday, the NASA astronaut displayed a replica of a…
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The Schmooze Gal Gadot Posts Emotional Tribute To Her Grandfather On Holocaust Remembrance Day
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, actress Gal Gadot honored a survivor in her own family: Her grandfather, Abraham Weiss. “My grandpa is always with me,” she wrote in the caption of a video of the actress throwing her arms around Weiss at the premiere of her movie, “The Fast And The Furious 5” in 2011. Weiss,…
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Fast Forward Polish President Claims New Holocaust Law Won’t Block Survivors’ Accounts
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — The presidents of Poland and Israel met near the Auschwitz death camp, where they held talks together and then led the March of the Living. Polish President Andrzej Duda assured his Israeli counterpart, Reuven Rivlin, on Thursday afternoon prior to the two-mile march from the Auschwitz barracks to the Birkenau death…
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