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Fast Forward Auschwitz Survivors Live To Tell Their Stories
(JTA) — What kept you alive? Did your non-Jewish friends reject you? Could you ever forgive? Those were some of the questions posed by Jewish young adults to Holocaust survivor Marcel Tuchman on Monday at the Galicia Jewish Museum here. “What kept me alive was having my father with me,” said Tuchman, 93, a physician…
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Opinion Auschwitz and Unfulfilled Responsibilities
Remarks by Richard N. Haass prepared to be delivered in the United Nations on January 27, 2015 to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of Auschwitz Normally liberation is a word associated with joy, but not today, because we mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the site of one of history’s greatest mass murders….
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Life One Woman Remembers Auschwitz on Return
Getty Images (Reuters) – “The trains were jam-packed,” recalled Susan Pollack. “Old people, young, mothers, many children. My mother, brother and I. No one spoke.” “It was hot, no air to breathe. Stench, moaning, that was the atmosphere. I think we were about 80 in the cattle wagon. When we arrived – and we didn’t…
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Fast Forward World Leaders Join Auschwitz Survivors at 70th Anniversary of Liberation
(Reuters) — World leaders joined around 300 Auschwitz survivors at the site of the former Nazi death camp on Tuesday to mark 70 years since its liberation by Soviet troops, an anniversary held in the shadow of war in Ukraine and a rise in anti-Semitism in Europe. Tuesday’s gathering in southern Poland marks perhaps the…
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The Schmooze Steven Spielberg Warns of Hatred ‘Demons’ on Rise
(Reuters) — Hollywood director Steven Spielberg said on Monday he hoped that the Holocaust commemorations taking place in Poland on Tuesday will be a warning for future generations, in light of a rising tide of anti-Semitism and intolerance against Jews. Spielberg was talking to Holocaust survivors in the southern Polish city of Krakow, ahead of…
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Fast Forward World Readies for Auschwitz Anniversary Without Russia’s Vladimir Putin
(Reuters) — Russia’s Vladimir Putin will be absent from the main event marking 70 years since Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, held against a backdrop of hostilities in Ukraine and warnings of a rise in anti-Semitism in Europe. The commemoration on Tuesday at the site in southern Poland where the Nazis…
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Opinion Hebro Presents First-Ever Gay Jewish Auschwitz Tour
Hebro Travel ad The image is a little jarring. On the left, a bearded, shirtless guy in sunglasses stands on a beach, the Israeli flag reflected in his mirrored aviators. On the right, a pink Star of David hovers over an ancient building in Prague. But for Jayson Littman, the pictures make perfect sense. As…
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News Polish Jews Protest Monument to Righteous Gentiles in Warsaw Ghetto
This article first appeared in the Yiddish Forverts Plans to erect a monument to Righteous Gentiles next to the newly dedicated Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews is evoking a growing anger in Poland and abroad. The museum stands on the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto, the largest of all the Jewish…
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