This is the Forward’s coverage of Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum and memorial.
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The Schmooze A Portuguese Diplomat in the Kingdom of Heaven
The diplomat Aristides de Sousa Mendes, who is the subject of a new biography by French author Eric Lebreton (Le Cherche Midi Editions), was the only Portuguese citizen ever recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. “Visas for Life: Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Righteous Man of Bordeaux” relates how in 1940,…
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The Schmooze ‘Dear Miss’: The Correspondence of Alice Ferrières, Righteous Among the Nations
In 1964, the first French woman to be honored by the Yad Vashem commission with the title “Righteous among the Nations” was a math teacher at a girls’ school in a remote town in France’s mountainous Auvergne region. Alice Ferrières of Murat was a Protestant whose family was affected by 1685’s revocation of the Edict…
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Life Ahmadinejad’s Speech Was Supposed To Be Even More Inflammatory
Here’s the portion of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Durban II speech that caused dozens of Western diplomats to walk out of a session yesterday at the U.N. racism conference: The U.N. has since said that Ahmadinejad’s address would have been even more inflammatory; he apparently left out a previously planned reference to Holocaust denial that…
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