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Opinion How do you teach an incarcerated student with a swastika tattoo?
As the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, one particular student posed my greatest challenge
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Yiddish World VIDEO: My escape from the Warsaw Ghetto
Henryk Robak, a native Yiddish speaker, remembers his time living in the Warsaw ghetto, and how he survived (includes English subtitles)
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Opinion As antisemitic hate crimes rise, I see alarming parallels to my grandmother’s childhood during the Holocaust
Just two generations ago, my family was torn apart
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Yiddish World Speaking Yiddish to chickens: Holocaust survivors on South Jersey chicken farms
These new farmers, adapting to an isolating rural way of life, found comfort in Yiddish culture, a link to lost families and hometowns
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News Meet the Auschwitz survivor saluted by George Santos in Congress
Some doubted her story was real. But it is, and it will break your heart
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Opinion On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, remember the non-Jewish Holocaust victims too
Recognizing other groups persecuted by the Nazis does not diminish Jewish persecution, but gives necessary context
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News The man who saved more Jews than Schindler
Aristides de Sousa Mendes was punished by Portugal for rescuing 10,000 Jews. But their descendants, and Israel, honor his memory
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Opinion I discovered a long-lost relative who survived the Holocaust in Soviet gulags
Jews who survived under Stalin rather than Hitler are largely absent from mainstream film and literature
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