Holocaust Research

There's no bigger insult to a Holocaust survivor than a bad Holocaust movie, says director Agnieszka Holland. But that doesn't mean schlock Holocaust doesn't happen. "There are many Holocaust movies that seem to miss the point. They seem fake, and reduce ...  

An elementary school playground and the Holocaust share a common theme: bullying. This year, the Holocaust Education Resource Council's annual Essay and Art Contest asks Florida students to explore how discrimination escalated to the events of ...  

Praising the British Jewish community's generosity as "fantastic", Britain's ambassador to Israel has opened the first of seven new social clubs for Holocaust survivors funded by philanthropists in the UK. Matthew Gould and his wife Celia, together with ...  

The Holocaust Educational Trust takes sixth form pupils from all over the country to the former Nazi camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland to further knowledge of the atrocities committed there and how it is relevant today.  

The teacher whose pupils complained that Conservative MP Aidan Burley was "disrespectful" during a talk by a Holocaust survivor is also a Labour councilor. Dr Suzannah Reeves has been named as the staff member who identified Mr Burley as the MP who joined ...  

Queens, N.Y.— Nowhere else is Holocaust history as distorted and as misrepresented as it is about Poland, according to Auschwitz survivor Michael Preisler, co chair of the Holocaust Documentation Committee of the Polish American Congress. Holding up the ...  

Jim Sanders, a Modestan who helped liberate the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp after World War II, and Ephraim Hadjis, a Greek Holocaust survivor, moved the 300-plus people Thursday afternoon at Vintage Faire Mall's center court.  

Kazimierz Smolen survived the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Mauthausen, and went on to co-found the State Museum at Auschwitz-Birkenau. He died on Holocaust Memorial day aged 91.Related StoriesHomai Vyarawalla: PhotographerPatrick Shovelton: Senior civil servant and obituarist for 'The Independent'Angelo Dundee: Boxing trainer famed for his long association with Muhammad AliDorothea Tanning: Painter, sculptor and poet whose work...  

What most miss is how the Holocaust was possible. What led to such atrocities? How could it even be imagined? Karl Schleunes goes into the path that brought Hitler and the Holocaust to the world in his book, The Twisted Road to Auschwitz: Nazi Policy Toward German Jews 1933-1939.  

An international Jewish organization of Russian-speaking Jews was launched to influence governments to join the fight against Iran. The World Forum of Russian Jewry was inaugurated Wednesday at the United Nations during a ceremony commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 70th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacres with the participation of nearly 600 American Russian-speaking Jews and Holocaust survivors.  

Leigh TodayEwing marks holocaust memorial day in parliamentStrathearn HeraldLOCAL MSP Annabelle Ewing spoke in a debate in the Scottish Parliament to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. She said: “The 25th of January is the 67th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and I welcome the fact that we took the opportunity in ...Memorial tree plantedLeigh TodayMP remembers the HolocaustDroitwich Standardall 3 news articles »  

CHERRYVILLE — The number 253440 remains etched in Henry Hirschmann’s memory. Hirschmann was told to forget his name and remember that number when he entered the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1938. He was 18 when Nazis took him from his family’s ...  

ON November 1, 2005, the UN general assembly resolved that each year January 27 would be designated Holocaust Remembrance Day. The date was significant. It was on this day in 1945 that the largest concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, was liberated by ...  

On January 27, 2012, President Obama remembered the victims of the Holocaust, saying: We commit ourselves to keeping their memories alive not only in our thoughts, but through our actions. As we remember all those who perished in camps from Auschwitz to Treblinka, Dachau to Sobibor, we pledge to speak truth to those who deny the Holocaust. As we celebrate the strength and resilience of survivors, we pledge to stand strong against...  

Holocaust Memorial Day has been celebrated on Friday, January 27, for years. It is on this day in 1945 that the Soviets liberated Auschwitz, the most notorious of Nazi concentration camps. But while the Holocaust happened decades ago, anti-Semitism ...