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Auschwitz Survivors Mark 78th Anniversary of Liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Auschwitz-Birkenau survivors gathered in Poland to commemorate the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp.
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Holocaust Remembrance Day: Auschwitz Survivors Mark Anniversary of Liberation
Survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau are gathering to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp amid horror that yet another war has shattered peace in Europe.
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San Diego Board of Supes Approves Holocaust Exhibit
San Diego County is home to some 400 Holocaust survivors, according to the Jewish Federation of San Diego.
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Holocaust Museum LA Receives $1M Grant for Free Student Tours
The Holocaust Museum LA has received a new $1 million grant from the Jack and Goldie Nomberg Foundation that will help support free educational tours for students.
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Holocaust Survivors Share Message of Hope During Hanukkah
Some 250,000 Holocaust survivors are still alive, living in Europe, Israel, the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Original Beethoven Score to Be Returned to Rightful Heirs
A musical manuscript handwritten by Ludwig van Beethoven is getting returned to the heirs of the richest family in pre-World War II Czechoslovakia
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Holocaust Survivors Offered Free DNA Tests to Help Find Long Lost Family Members
The New York-based Center for Jewish History is launching a project offering DNA testing kits for free to Holocaust survivors and their children. It’s an effort to help possibly find family connections torn apart in World War II. Genealogists say the advent of DNA technology has opened up a new world of possibilities in addition to the paper trails and...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Visits Auschwitz in Message Against Hatred
Schwarzenegger, who is originally from Austria, has spoken openly in the past about his father, Gustav Schwarzenegger, being a Nazi soldier during the war.
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Israel Observes Holocaust Remembrance Day
People in Israel observed the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day with sirens halting life for two minutes.
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Survivors Unite to Deliver Message on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Holocaust survivors across the world are uniting to deliver a message on the dangers of unchecked hate and the importance of remembrance at a time of rising global antisemitism.
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Comedian Jimmy Carr Denounced for ‘Abhorrent' Holocaust Remark in Netflix Special
The Auschwitz Memorial and other anti-hate organizations have condemned British-Irish comedian Jimmy Carr for a remark in his latest Netflix special.
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Tennessee School Board Bans Graphic Novel About the Holocaust
The McMinn County School Board voted to ban Pulitzer prize-winning graphic novel, “Maus” by Art Spiegelman from eighth grade language arts curriculum.
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Graphic Novel Illustrates Jewish Teen Life Through Writings Once Thought Lost During World War II
A new graphic book depicts the autobiographies written by six Jewish teenagers just before World War II. It is being published as a major archive of prewar documents about the Jews of Eastern Europe are reunited online.
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School Leader in Texas Tells Teachers to Balance Holocaust Books With ‘Opposing' Views
A top administrator with the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, advised teachers last week that if they have a book about the Holocaust in their classroom, they should also offer students access to a book from an “opposing” perspective, according to an audio recording obtained by NBC News. Gina Peddy, the Carroll school district’s executive director of curriculum and...
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Florida Woman Thought Friend Was Lost in Holocaust; Now, They Zoom
The 9-year-old girls met in the schoolyard near their Berlin homes to say goodbye. Ilse Betty Grebenschikoff and Anne Maria Wahrenberg were best friends who leaned on one another during the early days of the Nazi’s anti-Jewish campaign. In 1939, both of their families were preparing to flee Germany for different destinations. Grebenschikoff and Wahrenberg embraced, cried and promised to…
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WATCH: Israelis Stop Traffic for Holocaust Remembrance Day
Israelis stood in silence for two minutes on Thursday to remember the six million people who died in the Holocaust.
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#ItStartedWithWords: How Hate Speech Spiraled into the Holocaust
The Claims Conference, an organization that seeks restitution for victims of the Holocaust, launched a social media campaign explaining the speech and words that were said prior to the Nazi-led genocide of millions of people, including 6 million Jewish people.
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Auschwitz Survivor Shared Her Bread, and it Saved Her Life
Dr. Edith Eger speaks about “The Gift,” her book that mentions grief as a force for positive change, inspired by her story surviving the Auschwitz concentration camp, and her healing process from the trauma.
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‘We Owe This to Them': Shoah Survivors in Vaccine Spotlight
Hundreds of Holocaust survivors in Austria and Slovakia have received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine 76 years after Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz death camp
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Why a Lack of Holocaust Knowledge Among Millennials and Gen Z Puts Us at Risk of Repeating History
A new study showed how disconnected younger generations have become from the realities of the Holocaust. Professor of Modern Jewish History Deborah Lipstadt explains why that is so dangerous.