When Crossfit “guru” Dave Driskell travelled to Berlin, he decided to go visit the city’s iconic Holocaust memorial. He didn’t know what to expect — or that he probably shouldn’t pose on it and send an uplifting fitness message to his 70,000 followers. His caption on Instagram reads: “Hello Berlin, Germany. 15 hour layover. Checking the…
Israel will remove the name of a slain Palestinian teen from a national monument to “Victims of Terrorism” in response to a request from his family, a government spokesman said on Wednesday. The addition of sixteen-year-old Mohammed Khudair’s name to the monument had prompted protests on both sides of the conflict, with a group representing…
Holocaust survivors who decades ago launched “ The Annual Gathering of Remembrance” — New York City’s largest and older Holocaust commemoration — could not have imagined that 70 years after their liberation anti-Semitism in Europe would once more be a primary concern for Jews worldwide. David Marwell director of the Museum of Jewish Heritage welcomed the 2000-strong…
Britain will build a new Holocaust memorial in the center of London with the help of $50 million in government funds. The announcement of the future memorial, which will also be home to an education center, was made on Tuesday, the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the former Auschwitz concentration camp. “We stand in…
Vandals desecrated the Jewish cemetery in the central Greek city of Larissa, spraying swastikas and threats on the cemetery wall. A swastika was sprayed on the gates of the cemetery, while the word “Juden,” the Nazi SS symbol, and the epithet “six million more” were scrawled on the cemetery walls, the Jewish community there said…
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, partly built on the ruins of the city’s historic Jewish cemetery, unveiled a memorial to the graveyard that was destroyed by the Nazis. Greek Jewish leaders hailed the erection of the monument, a series of grave stones in a bed of green grass next to a broken menorah, as a late,…
Organizers have announced a design competition for a memorial in Warsaw to Poles who saved Jews during World War II. Polish-born Holocaust survivor and philanthropist Sigmund Rolat, of the Remembrance and Future Foundation, announced the competition at a news conference in Warsaw on Monday. Rolat said the designs would be judged by an international jury…
A memorial to the more than 13,700 Jews who fled Europe to safety in Shanghai during the Holocaust was unveiled at the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum. The memorial was unveiled Tuesday in a public ceremony, according to local news reports. It includes a statue of six Jewish refugees, symbolizing the 6 million Jews killed by…
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