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Demonstrators held their last "tea party" of the year in Washington D.C. Tuesday to protest Democrats' attempts to reform the health care system. Wednesday Jon Stewart took notice of some of the more humorous aspects of the event. "No killing babies," yelled one protester. "Well, I see we've had a visit from Captain Obvious," quipped Stewart. "We [...]  

No. 117013. That's the number the Nazi's stamped on 18-year-old Werner Coppel's left arm at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland in 1943. Coppel shared his story Tuesday with students at Campbell County Middle School.  

Zus Bielski did well for himself in the United States, thanks to his instinct for helping others. Growing up in Poland, then emigrating from Israel after World War II, he knew no English and could only get work pumping gas in a New York borough. One night, he saw an Irish truck driver assaulted by a group of toughs, and he waded right in.  

Undid revision 332193676 by 68.147.201.64 (talk) ← Previous revision Revision as of 03:39, 17 December 2009 Line 102: Line 102: == Examination of claims == == Examination of claims == The Holocaust The Holocaust - Main|Criticism of Holocaust revisionists + Main|Criticism of Holocaust denial The key claims of Holocaust deniers...  

Throughout his life, Holocaust survivor Robert Mendler kept close to him two reminders of the Nazi horror. One was a photo of the soldiers who rescued him in 1945; the other, the memory of the last words his mother, who died at the Belzec ...  

“As a controller I was responsible for ensuring the track was in good condition and in particular that the train ran smoothly. During a visit to the station at Belzec the supervisor, a Secretary or Senior Secretary from Thuringen, informed me that he was having a lot of problems with the SS, who were stationed near the wood.   Some time later I myself saw and had a word with a number of SS people in the waiting –room at Belzec. When I inquired...  

Suspected concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk goes on trial in Munich on Monday. A total of 35 relatives of murdered Jews are co-plaintiffs in the case -- more than in any other Holocaust-related trial to date. Taking part in the proceedings is the only thing they can still do for their lost loved ones, they say.  

Maria Winkler and her husband, David Komar, look at materials relating to their families' history during the Holocaust. Winkler's father escaped but lost his first wife and child; Komar's grandparents were killed.Every tale of a Holocaust death is, inevitably, a sorrowful one. The tales of the survivors are far less predictable. They can hardly be more varied than the two told by Maria Winkler and David Komar, a Carmichael couple who...  

For 25 years, they have fought tirelessly and are not giving up yet. Staging demonstrations, lobbying with the government and filing court cases, they are the band of men and women who have waged the war for justice to the victims of the Dec 2-3, 1984 gas leak that killed more than 3,500 people instantly and maimed several thousand others for life.  

Lodz, Poland, might not be well-known to some students, but to Gordon Horwitz ­— a professor of history at Illinois Wesleyan University who specializes in modern European and German history — it is a city that shows how life can go on amid chaos and violence. Staff Writer Kelsey Fowler spoke with Horwitz about his recent book, “Ghettostadt: Lodz and the Making of a Nazi City” and his research on the Holocaust that he will present tonight.  

The diary of a holocaust victim has been presented to the deputy Dutch Minister of Health Jet Bussemaker in a former theatre in Amsterdam. The Hollandse Schouwburg was used by the Nazi occupiers in the Second World War to hold Jews and other Holocaust victims before dispatching them to transit camps in the Netherlands and then to Nazi concentration camps.  

We are headed to the airport in just a second to head home for the holidays and while we want to smack our heads and ask "What were you thinking?!" we also don't want to be put on some kind of watch list which would make travel today even more impossible, so we'll just stick to the facts, if you please. The head smacking culprit here is the airline easyJet, who for a fashion spread their in-flight magazine decided that a good locale would be...  

Unfortunately, it seems that whether it's on the Internet or in real life, Godwin's Law always finds a way to prove itself again. People manage to use Nazi and Holocaust references in the most poorly considered of ways, as if they're unaware of the true horror that was the slaughter of millions of innocent people. That sort of thing has been happening all too frequently during protests against Democratic healthcare reform plans, and one of...  

This social network provides a collaborative workspace for Holocaust educators to address pedagogical issues and to share resources. Ning participants include members of the Midwest Holocaust Education Consortium held annually at Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Holocaust educators from other locales and individuals affiliated with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.  

JACKSONVILLE, Fla/HUDSON FALLS, N.Y. -- As World War II came to a close in 1945, a small American tank battalion discovered a train full of Jewish prisoners abandoned in the German countryside. Sixty-five years later, the survivors and liberators are reunited.  

A visiting professor discussed horrifying accounts of the killing and plundering of Polish Jews during World War II. Jan Tomasz Gross, Norman B. Tomlinson '16 and '48 professor of War and Society and History at Princeton University, spoke Tuesday in a lecture titled "On Holocaust's Periphery: Poles and their Jewish Neighbors.  

WASHINGTON -- Israeli Jews who survived World War II have a higher risk for cancer than other Jews, possibly as a result of hardships endured in the Holocaust, researchers said yesterday. Their study suggests that stress, extreme deprivation or oth...  

TOXIC HOLOCAUST and tour partners THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER are at the center of a heated debate amongst Nashville, Tennessee's most conservative residents about the bands' performances tonight (Tuesday, October 27) at the Christian-run Rocketown venue.  

NEW YORK — Fans of "Family Guy" are chortling about Microsoft's belated discovery that a "Family Guy" special might not jibe with the software giant's corporate image. On Monday, Microsoft said it's pulling out as sponsor of a "Family Guy" variety show, just two weeks after announcing its sole sponsorship of the special, "Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show," scheduled to air Nov. 8. The Fox special apparently...  

Put "sex" and "drugs" in your title and you're sure to catch the attention of the young people. Say "gefilte fish" and you're adding a touch of Jewish kitsch. Sex, Drugs, and Gefilte Fish: The Heeb Storytelling Collection, a reading taking place tonight at Chief Ike’s, sits at the "edgy end" of the DCJCC’s 2009 Jewish Literary Festival. Heeb is a humor magazine targeted to the young and Jewish, and this reading aims to bring together the...  

Although happy family memories from his childhood are scant, by all accounts Fred Manasse lived comfortably with his parents, older brother, and younger sister until the Nazis rose to power in their native Germany. In 1939, 3-year-old Fred and his 7-year-old brother, Gustav, joined thousands of children in being “kindertransported’’ to safety by train without their parents.  

New Brunswick temple hosts Holocaust survivor, subject of bookNew Brunswick Home News TribuneNEW BRUNSWICK — Holocaust survivor Michael Stolowitzky, subject of the book "Gertruda's Oath," will speak at 10:30 am Sunday at Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple, ...and more »  

MARSHFIELD -- If Eva Mozes Kor found a way to forgive the men and women who separated her family, murdered her parents and performed scientific experiments on her, then she knows anyone can have the power of forgiveness.  

Slate.com: "It was cold, misty, and miserably wet the day we visited Auschwitz-Birkenau, but no one wished for better weather. My companions -- mostly midlevel diplomats from more than a dozen countries around the world -- all seemed to agree that sunshine would have been almost offensive. We had come...  

Krugman: “Hoisted from comments on my eulogy for Paul Samuelson: ‘Samuelson was just another Eichmann. He is responsible for propagating a destructive economic dogma.’” My comment: Whereas, the real truth is that it’s the Friedmanites who’ve caused untold misery in this world, and many deaths.  

Four Seasons Lodge is the name of a Catskills resort catering to Holocaust survivors. As of 2006, they had been vacationing there for 26 years. That summer it appeared the lodge would be closing - “the last season in our paradise,’’ as one resident laments. Filmmaker Andrew Jacobs, a New York Times reporter, spent those months talking to residents, recording ...  

The documentary about female Holocaust survivors and their experiences Swimming in Auschwitz will be shown at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center in Maitland (851 N. Maitland Blvd.). Admission is free.  

A young Holocaust victim has been brought back to life on the Internet. As a virtual figure, a young Jewish boy from Poland writes about his life during the Second World War - and he's looking for friends on Facebook.  

The Holocaust has come to be known as the supreme example of evil in the 20th century. The German Nazi regime during the period of 1941-45 instituted a campaign of mass murder in concentration camps resulting in the deliberate death of six million Jews, two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe. Five million others in groups such as Gypsies and homosexuals were also persecuted.Congregation Emeth, South Valley's synagogue, invites the...  

Which is morally worse: Holocaust denial or climate change scepticism? It sounds like a no-brainer, but the real-life consequences of climate sceptics succeeding may far outweigh those of Holocaust denialists.  

Holocaust survivor Nesse Godin brought her tale of horror and survival to Emporia Monday night, speaking not only to remember the phantoms of the past but also to call for a change in how we treat each other.  

A representative of the Ghana Branch office of the Jehovahs Witnesses Brother Paul Crudas assured the delegates of witnesses at the four day international convention at the Ohene Djan Stadium that God will not allow the world to be destroyed with a nuclear holocaust global warming or a pandemicHe cited various texts from t ...  

My sister is law Brenda Maryles passed away yesterday here in Chicago her home for over 50 years. She was my brother Barry’s wife.A holocaust survivor she met my brother while in a DP camp in Farinwald, Germany. Himself a holocaust survivor - he was nonetheless drafted by the US army and stationed near her there. They met in the mid 50’s and married in 1957. They produced four beautiful children: Chaim, Helen, Bernice, and Sam. She loved her...  

Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) takes place internationally each year on the 27th January, and over the past 9 years thousands of teachers and librarians have commemorated HMD in their  libraries and classrooms.  27th January 2010 marks a particularly poignant year as on this date 65 years ago, the largest Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated.Holocaust Memorial Day Trust are urging everyone in the UK to become part of The...  

Not only is the US involved in an ongoing Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide (post-1990 violent and non-violent excess deaths 4.4 million), the US and its Iraqi Puppet Régime are grossly understating post-invasion mortality rates to the United Nations Population Division. In the 2006 Revision of the United Nations Population Division the crude death rate in "deaths per 1,000 of population" was given as 8.3 (1980-1985), 6.9 (1985-1990), 9.6...  

Organizers of a Holocaust memorial planned for Atlantic City's boardwalk say there's a simple explanation for the seemingly odd location. Go where the people are. Rabbi Gordon Geller of Temple Emeth Shalom in Margate tells The Philadelphia Inquirer his group plans to unveil the still-to-be-designed memorial in 2012 on a 60-foot stretch of the walkway between New York and Kentucky Avenues. The real estate was donated by the Atlantic City Council.  

NEW YORK (AP) | A Holocaust survivor and the Polish Christian who risked his life to save him are especially grateful this Thanksgiving season: The two men were reunited for the first time in 65 years. Joseph Bonder, 81, went to John F. Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday afternoon to welcome Bronislaw Firuta, 83, from Wroclaw, Poland. "My dear, beloved Joseph, we both outlived Stalin and Hitler, and I can't believe we are here today...  

"Heads were skinned and muscles removed from the brain case in order to remove the skullcap. Incisions and scrapes on jaws indicate that tongues were cut out." "Scrape marks inside the broken ends of limb bones indicate that marrow was removed." "Whatever actually happened at Herxheim, facial bones were smashed beyond recognition." - Neolithic mass canibalism in southern Germany.  

WILKES-BARRE – Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel may have been the featured speaker at Wilkes University’s Outstanding Leaders Forum on Tuesday night, but he said he does not consider himself a leader.  

  Holocaust survivor Eva Kor is sharing her story and her life lessons at a lecture at Kutztown University tonight. Kor survived horrific medical experiments at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. But Thursday night, she glazed over the torturous experience. She focuses instead on life lessons.   

and a swing of the pendulum in one direction.These are not my words these are Yonasan Rosenblum's words in his latest column.Living with the TensionAfter every catastrophic event that destroys the previous equilibrium, there is a pendulum swings until a new equilibrium is found. Let us take one contemporary example. The period between the beginning of World War I and end of World War II completely destroyed a European Jewish civilization built...  

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A notorious Holocaust denier convicted of attacking Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel in an elevator has now set his sights on an 80-year-old Pembroke Pines, Fla., woman whose memoir recounts her ordeal in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.  

This is a cross post from the CST Blog of a guest post by Paul Evans of the Holocaust Educational Trust NB: The Guardian has now published the following statement: Editor’s statement: We published a letter by John Mortl in the Guardian of Thursday 3 December and on this site relating to the case of John Demjanjuk, [...]  

BEVERLY HILLS, CA -- 11/20/09 -- A holocaust escapee, Estherleon Schwartz was four years old when her father tossed her over a barbed wire fence into the waiting arms of Swiss soldiers, uttering the words, "Save my daughter and she will always serv..  

He was the youngest survivor on "Schindler's list," a boy who witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust yet remained mostly silent for 50 years about the incredible suffering he and others endured.Then, in 1993, director Steven Spielberg made "Schindler's List," the story of German businessman Oskar Schindler and his rescue of 1,200 Polish Jews. And Leon Leyson finally told his story."Well, it was time. That's all," said Leyson, who was 13 when...  

by Menachem  Z.  Rosensaft Railway tracks leading to the former Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, southern Poland. Photo: AP [file] One key difference between US Representative Alan Grayson (D-FL) and the editor-in-chief of the Polish Catholic newspaper Gosc Niedzielny (”Sunday Visitor”) appears to be that while the former has apologized for saying that the absence of adequate health [...]  

John Demjanjuk was due to face Holocaust survivors in court on Tuesday on the second day of his Nazi war crimes trial, amid doubts on whether the 89-year-old is as ill as he makes out.Demjanjuk appeared on the first day of what is likely to be the last major Holocaust trial first in a wheelchair, moaning as he was wheeled out before being brought in for the second session laid out on a stretcher.  

Bhopal: Kin of the victims and survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy staged a candlelight vigil here on Wednesday to mark the 25th anniversary of the world''s worst industrial disaster. On December 2, 1984, Bhopal woke up to the most horrifying industrial disaster. Thousands of men, women and children died because of the deadly gases, mostly the highly toxic methyl isocyanate that escaped from plant of Union Carbide India Limited located in the...  

Hungarian Holocaust survivor Eva Olsson was only 19-years-old when she was crammed into a boxcar in 1944 and taken away to Auschwitz, Poland, the largest of Hitler’s Nazis-led concentration camps. Olsson managed to survive, but the Nazis murdered 87 members of her Hasidic Jewish family.[...]  

WALLED LAKE, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Railmark Holdings, Inc. announced today that its Rail Entertainment USA Inc. subsidiary will be offering the new book LIVING WITNESSES: FACES OF THE HOLOCAUST in its retail gift shop in time for its holiday trains and along with the publisher, will distribute all proceeds received from book sales to a local charity that supports Holocaust survivors in need. Earlier this year Railmark’s Michigan Air-Line...  

Waiting for her flight to take off from Denver to New York, Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis is on the phone doing what she does best: speaking from the heart about her lifelong mission to rekindle the connection between assimilated Jews and God.  

MARSHFIELD -- Eva Kor, 75, not only survived the horrors of the Holocaust concentration camp Auschwitz, but she also is a survivor of the medical experiments conducted by the notorious Dr. Josef Mengele.  

MUNICH, Germany - Prosecutors accused John Demjanjuk of playing an active role in the Nazis' machinery of destruction, saying Tuesday that he was a willing follower of Hitler's racist ideology as they read the indictment against the retired Ohio autoworker.  

A Holocaust survivor has been killed in a fire on Long Island that may have been sparked by a cigarette. The Nassau County fire marshal says Adam Rafalowicz was found dead inside his Hewlett, Long Island, home on 10 Sutton Lane. Officials said the two-story home sustained a partial collapse as a result of the blaze. An official cause has yet to be determined. But Fire Marshal Vincent McManus says the victim had a reputation as a careless smoker.  

Andy Abraham submits:What a scary title: U.S. Dollar Collapse & Inflationary Holocaust. These are the words of CNBC and Jim Rogers. However as Jim Rogers is predicting the U.S. dollar collapse, the U.S. dollar made a strong move on Friday on short trading with the crisis developing with Dubai’s Debt.So how does one protect capital in this type of scenario? In my opinion, regardless of inflation or deflation, trend following strategies with...  

Elie Wiesel urged Hungary’s leaders to do more to combat racism and anti-Semitism, and also to consider banning Holocaust denial. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who in 1944 was deported to Auschwitz from a town, Sighet, which at the time was in ...  

Here is video of Pastor Rick Warren on Meet the Press today, where he said candidly that he believes abortion has been a "holocaust" in America since the Roe vs. Wade decision, a "holocaust" that has resulted in in "46 million Americans not being here" and voting today. Warren engaged in a wide-ranging discussion with moderator David Gregory. Warren said he is "not pro-Life" but is "whole life," believing we need to not only protect the unborn...  

Norways Angst Skvadron have announced they will be releasing a limited edition 10" album titled "Valium Holocaust" through Folter Records in January, 2010. The album will include one previously unreleased track and three remixed songs from the upcoming album "Sweet Poison." The track listing will be as follows: Side Valium 1. Posttraumatic Str... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com  

Image credit: Tessish/YouTube I hesitated about posting this story due to the divisive and heated rhetoric that has been appearing in comments on any post about climate change recently. Given the huge consequences at stake at Copenhagen, the last thing we need is more 'them and us' political mudslinging. But those stakes also demand that we understand what is going on in the political process—so the news that the European Union will be...  

A local family is speaking out about events that happened more than 60 years ago. Peter Wigmore, of Gladstone, will be speaking at the Tigard Library, Nov. 17 describing his family’s ordeal at the hands of Nazis while interred at Auschwitz – the infamous Nazi concentration camp where ...  

Dear Alice,We truly appreciate your comment. Rest assured that H.E.A.R.T will carry on despite any and all of the online foolishness perpetrated by the hate bloggers and controversialists.Our view is:Since the Holocaust can never be denied, there is nothing to debate or debunk….We wish you all the best.- The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team  

John Demjanjuk, the 89-year-old suspected former Nazi camp guard, whose trial started on Monday in a Munich court, was accused by the prosecution of being a former "Trawniki", Soviet prisoners of war who escaped death by assisting in the Holocaust.  

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - More than 60 years after the Holocaust, politicians, newspapers and television have warned about the growing influence of “Holocaust deniers,” who dispute that the policy pursued by the German government during the Second World War resulted in the killing of six million Jews, most of them in gas chambers.  

More coverage of Andrew Dismore’s bill to allow museums to over-ride their governing charters & return artefacts looted during the Nazi era. From: Hendon & Finchley Times Looted artwork from the Second World War could be returned under new bill tabled by Hendon MP Andrew Dismore 12:31pm Tuesday 10th November 2009 By Kevin Bradford A LAW allowing artwork looted by the [...]  

Turkey Holocaust Day ‘09 Raging Moderate, by Will Durst I’m itching like a like a volleyball-playing nudist in a field of poison oak to inflate the first four-story tall balloon and kick-start the national parade of giving thanks down Main Street, because Turkey Holocaust Day couldn’t come soon enough as far as I’m concerned. Be honest, doesn’t [...]  

A ditch in a Jewish cemetery, a hotel basement, a house that was anything but a home. All may seem innocuous today to passers-by in Haltern Am See, Germany, but the life of a Jewish family was forever changed in these spots 70 years ago. Holocaust survivor Alexander Lebenstein visited the locations last summer with family and friends, reliving the past in which his life was uprooted during Kristallnacht—the anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany...  

Under communism, Jewish suffering in the Holocaust generally was subsumed as part of overall suffering during World War II. Most Holocaust or World War II memorials in communist Europe even at death camps such as Auschwitz and Buchenwald honored generic  

A notorious Holocaust denier convicted of attacking Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel in an elevator has now set his sights on an 80-year-old Pembroke Pines woman whose memoir recounts her ordeal in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. In a lawsuit filed in Broward Circuit Court, Eric Hunt alleges that the "The Fifth Diamond: The Story of Irene W  

Holocaust survivors who spent time in detention during the Second World War will be eligible for reparations without needing to meet the criteria for reparation-eligibility recently published by the Finance Ministry, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, overruling a lower court decision. Some 5,000 survivors, mostly from Bulgaria and Romania, will now be eligible to [...]  

I'm itching like a like a volleyball-playing nudist in a field of poison oak to inflate the first four-story tall balloon and kick-start the national parade of giving thanks down Main Street, because Turkey Holocaust Day couldn't come soon enough as far as I'm concerned.  

Holocaust & American Poets 2099 - Theatre Of Pain Holocaust and American Poets 2099's Theatre Of Pain is due November 24th. Theatre Of Pain Tracklist via Chambermusik: 1. Stand – feat Holocaust (prod. by DJ Woool) 2. Sayonara Blues – feat Holocaust, Nova Kane and Ace...  

Rudie Cortissos, Mary Richheimer Leijden van Amstel and David van Huiden (from left) are three of the 35 relatives of murdered Jews who are co-plaintiffs in the case. BY GEORG BONISCH and JAN FRIEDMAN Der Spiegel Suspected concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk goes on trial in Munich on Monday. A total of 35 relatives of murdered Jews are co-plaintiffs [...]  

By Alison Silver There is a popular belief that adults of the post-Holocaust period of 1945-1962 remained silent during the aftermath of the war. However, historian Hasia Diner explained in a November 16 lecture at New York City's 92nd Street Y that this notion is false.  

EasyJet recalls magazine with Holocaust memorial fashion shoot Published: 24 Nov 09 10:14 CETOnline: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20091124-23481.html British discount airline easyJet has recalled some 280,000 copies of its in-flight magazine after complaints about a fashion shoot staged at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial, daily Financial Times Deutschland reported on Tuesday. ADVERTISING Heavy wind storms rage through Germany - National (24 Nov...  

I'm itching like a like a volleyball- playing nudist in a field of poison oak to inflate the first four-story tall balloon and kick-start the national parade of giving thanks down Main Street, because Turkey Holocaust Day couldn't come soon enough as far as I'm concerned.  

Airline apologises for poor taste of fashion spread that used Jewish Museum and Holocaust memorial as backdropThe budget airline EasyJet has been forced to withdraw almost 300,000 copies of its in-flight magazine because of protests over its use of Holocaust memorial sites as a backdrop for a fashion feature.An eight-page spread in the November edition of the magazine, EasyJet Traveller, depicted models posing at the Jewish Museum in Berlin...  

As a history teacher I have discovered that one of the most enduring myths of younger Americans not versed in the history of their country preceding their birth, is that the United States entered the Second World War in order to save the Jews of Europe. In fact, the very ...  

William "Bill" Basch, a retired Los Angeles garment industry executive who was one of the Holocaust survivors whose stories were told in the Oscar-winning documentary "The Last Days," has died. He was 82. Mr. Basch died of age-related causes Monday at his...  

Since the 1970s, Holocaust survivor Dr. Helen Sperling has been speaking to the Colgate community about her experiences during World War II. As in years past, Sperling, who received an honorary doctorate from Colgate in 2000, spoke to a group so tightly packed in Lathrop that many of the attendees willingly stood through the whole lecture.  

ProHipHop posts for Sunday, November 22: Holocaust & American Poets 2099: Theatre Of Pain Album Art & Tracklist Hip Hop Album Releases for Nov. 23/24: Bill Cosby x Cosnarati, Birdman, Death Row Records, Holocaust & American Poets 2099, O.C. & A.G., Wiz Khalifa Timbaland: Morning After Dark Music Video ft. Soshy Hypebot: Snoop Dog on CNBC, VEVO,...  

Unlike the cartoonish characters in Quentin Tarantino’s over-the-top revenge fantasy, “Inglourious Basterds,” the young men whose exploits are depicted in “They Dared Return: The True Story of Jewish Spies Behind the Lines in Nazi Germany,” by Patrick K. O’Donnell (Da Capo Press, $26) are flesh-and-blood war heroes.  

by Eric Kohn Anti-semitism lurks in unsuspecting places, but only to those who seek it out. Defamation, Yoav Shamir's provocative documentary, released in select theaters last week, conveys at least that much. But Shamir goes one step further, arguing that...  

Joel Grind, the lead vocalist and guitarist of american crossover thrash metal outfit Toxic Holocaust has posted a message online thanking the bands fans for their continued support and updating them on the current status of the band. The message reads as follows: "I just want to say thank you to all the die hards that have been supporting us, c... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com  

NEW HAVEN — Fred Gross spent a lot of time in the New Haven area during the mid-1960s to early 1970s, both as a newspaper reporter and school system communications specialist, but even those who were close to Gross knew nothing about his childhood days fleeing the Nazis.  

by Eric Lidji Associate Editor slideshow Growing up in Leechburg, 30 miles or so north of Pittsburgh, Ruth Reidbord watched her mother struggle unsuccessfully to save family trapped in Poland during World War II. Reidbord, who was 14 when the war ended, witnessed the creation of Israel and remembers seeing postings in Jewish newspapers as [...]  

Israelites - Stop the politicians from playing Russian roulette with Israel’s life!The vultures of death are circling Israel. There is a nuclear inferno burning in Israel’s backyard that is threatening to engulf the entire nation of Israel in flames, and a proposed two-state FINAL “Solution” that will lead to the destruction of the Jewish State from within.Visit http://www.neveragainisnow.com/, and watch and listen as a Holocaust survivor...  

The Jewish Community Council of Canarsie and the Metropolitan Council recently hosted an event to honor the legacy and hardships of several Brooklyn Holocaust survivors. Congressman Ed Towns, who has been instrumental in securing Holocaust survivor services, was the evening’s special guest. (Above) Two Holocaust survivors, Towns and Rabbi Avrohom Hecht, executive director of the JCCC.read more  

Estherleon Schwartz was destined to be a Cantor. A Holocaust escapee, she was 4 years old when her father tossed her over a barbed wire fence into the waiting arms of Swiss soldiers. Just before that fateful event, he looked to the heavens and uttered the words “Save my daughter and she will always serve you.” Her first view of America was from the deck of the Queen Mary when she was 8, passing by the Statue of Liberty, which she thought was...  

Filed under: Arts and Culture, History, Europe, Germany, Airlines, NewsEasyJet has apologized to everyone who will listen over a fashion shoot that appeared in its inflight magazine. Did the models wear too little? Did they look like fourteen year-old cokeheads? No, none of the usual stuff; they happened to be posing at the Berlin Holocaust Memorial. Yes, some fashion photographer decided the concrete blocks known as the "Field of Stelae...  

Chabad of Hunterdon County will be hosting a Community Shabbat dinner open to all on Friday, Oct. 23. It will feature Holocaust survivor Esther Bakonyi who will share her riveting memories and experiences from her childhood, living through the horrors...  

VIENNA | A dispute over access to an archive involving Vienna's Jewish community has prompted a group of academics to withdraw support for an Austrian Holocaust studies center, saying independent research is no longer possible, according to a letter obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.  

A Polish historian named Piotr Buzek is using Facebook to increase Holocaust awareness. Buzek works for the Brama Grodzka Cultural Center in Lublin and created a profile for Henio Zytomirski, a young boy who died in a concentration camp. "Here at the center we have collected a lot of information about Henio's life, said Buzek, "and then I tried to imagine how this young boy experienced the world around him." The resulting Facebook profile...  

A renowned group of academics has withdrawn its support for an Austrian Holocaust research center in the latest fallout from a dispute with the city's Jewish community.The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies began provisional operations in January after being stymied for years by a lack of funding. Its purpose, among other things, is to give researchers access to roughly 8,000 files of the late Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and to...  

Noted Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel spoke out about the tea-bagger holding the sign depicting the mass grave of Jews and comparing Health Care Reform to the Holocaust saying, "This kind of political hatred is indecent and disgusting." Of course, criticising the obvious brought out what has been all too obvious in the tea-baggers. Here are some of their responses:The jews need to clam up and accept the fact that they are in a Chritian...  

Farmington Hills -- A photo of the infamous lamp shade thought to have been made from human skin, photos of the bodies of Nazi concentration camp victims and hundreds of pages of documents from the World War II War Crimes Tribunal have a new home, thanks to a Waterford man who donated them to the Holocaust Memorial Center.  

FARMINGTON HILLS — Papers, photos and other records from the chief judge at the Dachau war crimes trials after World War II are going on display at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills. The family of the late Army Maj. Warren R. Lambert hands over his personal archives Wednesday night to the suburban Detroit museum. President Franklin Roosevelt named Lambert to head the Dachau trials, which ran from 1945-48 at the site of a Nazi...  

The Reed student newspaper thought it was 'funny' to publish an article about gassing all the Jews on campus. Given the context of recent swastika graffiti at Lewis and Clark College, and the attempts of some students to downgrade the importance of Holocaust Denial, and although some college staff and students have apologized, anti-racists should continue to monitor the situation.  

Internationally acclaimed singer, pianist and actor Claudia Stevens is coming to Alma College to perform the critically acclaimed story of an elderly concentration camp musician who performed in the women’s orchestra at Auschwitz during the Holocaus  

Last update - 03:18 15/11/2009 By Dana Weiler-Polak Tags: Holocaust Survivors The Company for Restitution of Holocaust Victims Assets, established by the state in 2005, has not been able to prevent some private firms and lawyers from unnecessarily mediating between the company and the Holocaust survivors in filing their claims and charging high fees, despite Justice Ministry regulations instituted [...]  

Notorious Holocaust Denier Coming to New York This Week VENUE OWNERS ARE ASKED TO BE AWARE The notorious Holocaust denier and antisemite David Irving is to give a secretive lecture in New York City this weekend and Holocaust survivors are calling for peaceful protest against “this person of hate and his hateful ideas.” The American [...]  

Polk State College will offer a course on the Literature of the Holocaust (LIT 1201) during its spring term. Through literature and films, PSC Professor Howard Kerner will examine both the evildoers who sent millions of innocent people to die in gas chambers and the individuals who hid, protected and rescued many others.  

A group identifying themselves as “anti-fascist hackers” broke into the web site and AOL e-mail account of controversial British historian and accused Holocaust-denier David Irving and obtained his private communications as well as attendee lists for his current U.S. speaking tour. The hackers posted his e-mail, personal information, and passwords.  

I detest Holocaust denial. Relative newbies who haven't been reading this blog that long may be wondering why I, a physician, booster of science-based medicine, and scourge of the anti-vaccine movement (well, at least in my mind, anyway) would blog about Holocaust denial, but in actuality my interest in combatting Holocaust denial predates my interest in combatting quackery by at least two years. Indeed, one of my earliest long-form posts for...  

I published an announcement about the new Holocaust Collection on Footnote.com on 29 September 2009. I am republishing the announcement below. At that time, Footnote.com planned to have these records open to the public for only the month of October. However, I have been told there is now a change in those plans. Due to the popularity of this collection, the folks at Footnote.com have decided to keep the records available free to the public...  

Published: 13 November 2009 by Jeanette Friedman Carol Faber checks out the high school’s Holocaust Center. Principal Angela Davis’ back is to the camera. James Roberson Tuesday night, the 71st anniversary of Kristallnacht, was a “back to school” night of sorts. Teaneck residents, high school faculty members, students, and alumni gathered at Teaneck High School [...]  

                    Part 1:Louis Leviticus is a professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, but he is also a survivor of the Holocaust and an author. NewsNetNebraska's Carson Stokebrand interviewed Leviticus about his book, Tales from the Milestone, which details his life during World War II. In this segment, Leviticus describes the prejudice and injustice he faced while living as a Jew in German-controlled Amsterdam. As...  

The Holocaust began more than seven decades years ago this week and those who can remember the horrors are likely in their 80s. In the next 20 to 30 years most of, if not all, of the survivors will have passed away. Our Allison Lazarz talked with members of the local Jewish community about how this could affect the way future generations learn about the Holocaust.  

Munich, Germany – A Dutch Holocaust survivor broke down today as he told a court how his mother was transported to the gas chambers in Sobibor, a Nazi death camp where John Demjanjuk is accused of being a guard. In wrenching testimony on the second day of Demjanjuk’s trial, Rudolf Salomon Cortissos, 70, waved a letter [...]  

At the end of September we posted an in-depth overview about a new collection of digitized Holocaust records from the National Archives (NARA) and Footnote. Our post said that at the end of October a sizable portion of the content would only be available to Footnote.com subscribers. Today, an update. All of the material [...]  

Four Seasons Lodge has an elevator pitch—"A Catskills colony of Holocaust survivors is threatened with eviction after 25 summers together!"—that drew Albert Maysles on board as a cinematographer, and his instincts didn't steer him wrong. What's surprising about a documentary wi...  

A notorious Holocaust denier convicted of attacking Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel in an elevator has now set his sights on an 80-year-old Pembroke Pines woman whose memoir recounts her ordeal in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.  

"Book Review: Turkey & The Holocaust, Turkey's Role in Rescuing Turkish and European Jewry from Nazi Persecution, 1933-1945 * Author: Reviewed by Stacy Maruskin, USAK Expert <> * Date: Tuesday, 10 November 2009 12:29 Reviewed by Stacy Maruskin, USAK ExpertIt is a shame that more are not aware of the courage Turkish people possessed in their efforts to save the Jewish community during World War II.There are always new movies or books...  

Here's a look at the past. Items have been culled from The Chronicle's archives of 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago. 1984 Nov. 8: A cold rain mixed with tears Nov. 7 as San Francisco's controversial memorial to the 6 million victims of the Holocaust was formally...  

As regular readers know, one of my interests outside of medicine is the phenomenon of Holocaust denial. Granted, I haven't written as much about it lately as I used to, but that doesn't mean I've lost interest. Actually, I think it may be because I seem to be encountering fewer and fewer major issues of Holocaust denial, although the Bishop Williamson case did draw my ire earlier this year, and I have been perturbed by Holocaust denier David...  

By By VERONIKA OLEKSYN -- Key members of an Austrian Holocaust research center have quit in a dispute with the city's Jewish community.The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies began provisional operations in January after being bogged down for years with funding problems. Its aim, among other things, is to give scholars from around the world unique access to roughly 8,000 files of the late Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and to...  

By JAMIE ROMM AND NEWS AGENCIES While Jewish groups are upset over Pope Benedict XVI’s efforts to reach out to a breakaway Catholic group that includes a Holocaust-denier, Rabbi David Rosen of the American Jewish Committee said Tuesday he would be “very surprised” if the group were readmitted to the Catholic Church. The Vatican held talks for [...]  

Today I got into a debate about abortion at Twitter with two fellow Tweepers. In both cases, my opponents were strongly pro-life, while I can see both the pro-life and the pro-choice side of things. And that’s pretty much where the similarities between both sparring partners end. The first, a big…  

A notorious Holocaust denier convicted of attacking Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel in an elevator has now set his sights on an 80-year-old Pembroke Pines woman whose memoir recounts her ordeal in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.  

In a crackdown never seen before, Iranian authorities have moved against college students for expressing belief that the Holocaust occurred, representing a “frightening escalation of hate-filled efforts to deny the Holocaust and assail the memory of the Jewish victims.” The Amir Kabir news agency reported that in September the president of Khaje Nasir University ordered [...]  

Yesterday the National Jewish Democratic Council's (NJDC) President, David A. Harris, released a statement outlining the outrageous behavior of the crowd at the Tea Party "press conference" sponsored by the GOP House leadership. The crowd held signs noting that "Obama... Republican - National Jewish Democratic Council - Health Care - Tea Party protests - David A. Harris  

Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara was stationed in Lithuania when Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Thousands of Jewish refugees came to the consulate seeking travel documents in order to escape the Nazis. Sugihara’s superiors in Tokyo ordered him not to issue any travel visas. Sugihara discussed the plan with his wife Yukiko and decided to risk his [...]  

A "Tea Party" rally against health care reform on Capitol Hill Thursday featured a sign that compared health care reform efforts to the Nazi Holocaust. Numerous Republican congresspeople attended the event that was principally organized by Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann, among them House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA), according [...]  

Arab and Muslim readers wishing to learn more about the Holocaust no longer have to depend on contraband copies in foreign languages thanks to a new initiative called Project Aladdin, Primo Levi’s memoir Survival in Auschwitz, along with Anne Frank’s diary and  

OCTOBER 20, 2009 After holding money of Holocaust victims’ for 70 years, Israeli banks have begun returning the funds to the Holocaust Victims Assets Restitution Company. The company said Tuesday that it would begin transferring to thousands of Holocaust victims’ descendants and Holocaust survivors the money held by banks Hapoalim and Discount and [...]  

Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) called in the tea baggers to the Capitol in D.C. today for an "emergency house call" (that's great video!) in hopes of killing health care reform legislation. She was joined by dozens of fellow wingnut lawmakers who spoke to the disinformed crowd, promising "not a single Republican vote" for the bill [...]  

By YAAKOV KATZ, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT IN OMAHA, NEBRASKA Home to America’s nuclear arsenal and some of its military’s most advanced and classified platforms, the United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), located just outside Omaha, will soon permanently host an unexpected exhibit – a collection of photographs documenting this city’s living Holocaust [...]  

SPECIAL EDITION: Dear readers, it takes only 10-15 minutes to research this fact-packed article. It comes with our commentary to Mr. Anthony Lerman's OP/ED in the Guardian and more information about the Srebrenica genocide, including a little known fact that many Srebrenica victims had been gassed with chemical weapons.In his latest OP/ED article for the Guardian, titled "Holocaust day of reckoning won't come," a highly respected Jewish author...  

Comic books in their most familiar form—tales of super-heroes and adventurers—sprang from pulp novel potboilers of the 1930s and ‘40s. They were often lurid, licentious, shocking. In fact, by the 1950s, as America focused on the Red Scare and those dirty Commies tunneling like termites under our American way of life, ‘seditious’ comic books grew so popular among impressionable young people that authorities passed laws banning comics… and even...  

An ultraconservative British bishop was fined $16,822 (euro12,000) in Germany for denying the Holocaust in an interview with Swedish television, his lawyer said Tuesday.A court in the Bavarian city of Regensburg issued the fine against Richard Williamson for incitement in connection with his Holocaust denial, Williamson's lawyer Matthias Lossmann said."We received the order of punishment on Monday and my client has time until Nov. 9 to react...  

ScienceDaily (Oct. 27, 2009) — Jewish survivors of World War II who were potentially exposed to the Holocaust are at a higher risk for cancer occurrence, according to a new study published online October 26 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Previous studies, in non-Jewish populations, investigating the relationship of [...]  

Holocaust survivors were slated to receive free medication as of mid September, however government bureaucracy is stalling the much needed reform Yael Branovsky Published: 10.29.09, 10:48 / Israel News // urlStr = '/articles/0,7340,L-to_replace,00.html';url=urlStr.replace('to_replace',url); if( urlAtts == '' || !urlAtts) {document.location = url;} else {var x = window.open(url,'newWin',urlAtts)} break; case 'yaan...  

British funnyman Stephen Fry has apologised after outraging Polish citizens by implying the country played a role in the Holocaust.The writeractor was taking part in a feature on Poland's Law and Justice Party for Britain's Channel 4 News last week (begs12Octo09) when he referred to the location of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. He told viewers, "L...  

WARSAW, Poland---- The memorial museum at Auschwitz has launched a Facebook page, hoping that the popular social networking site will help it reach young people around the globe and engage them in discussions about the former Nazi death camp and the Holocaust.  

By JAMIE ROMM AND NEWS AGENCIES While Jewish groups are upset over Pope Benedict XVI’s efforts to reach out to a breakaway Catholic group that includes a Holocaust-denier, Rabbi David Rosen of the American Jewish Committee said Tuesday he would be “very surprised” if the group were readmitted to the Catholic Church. The Vatican held talks for three hours [...]  

The Henry Ricklis Holocaust Memorial Committee Annual Education Program will present a discussion and presentation titled "Reflections on God and the Holocaust" at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1 at the Monroe Township Public Library, Municipal Plaza, 1630 Perrineville Road.  

British bishop Richard Williamson, who denied the Holocaust in a media interview last year, has been fined $17,800 by a German court for incitement. Williamson, a member of the Catholic splinter group Society of Saint Pius X, claimed in a German interview that there were no gas chambers during the Nazi period and 200,000 to 300,000 Jews were murdered, not 6 million.  

Toxic Holocaust and tour partners The Black Dahlia Murder are at the center of a heated debate amongst Nashville, TN?s most conservative residents about the bands? performances tonight at the Christian-run Rocketown venue. A news segment from Nashville?s ABC network affiliate WKRN, Channel 2 chronicling the controversy can be viewed here. Toxic ... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com  

Following Survivors’ Appeal, Holocaust Denier a No-Show at Mississippi City Hall: Group warns Irving plans stealth New York City appearance Holocaust denier and antisemite David Irving failed to make a scheduled appearance Wednesday night at the Jackson, Mississipppi City Hall after The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants asked the mayor and residents of Jackson, Mississippi not to [...]  

This is a cross post from the CST Blog Last night on Question Time, Nick Griffin came up with one of the most transparent evasions imaginable when asked whether he denied the Holocaust, replying: “I do not have a conviction for Holocaust denial.” Like much of what Griffin said during the programme, this is not exactly the truth. Griffin [...]  

The memorial museum at Auschwitz has launched a Facebook page, hoping that the popular social networking site will help it reach young people around the globe and engage them in discussions about the former Nazi death camp and the Holocaust. The site, which opened earlier this week, already has more than 1,800 "fans" who have subscribed, with the number growing by the hour - some 500 signed up Thursday morning alone. Many have left messages in...  

In a move sure to raise more than a few eyebrows, authorities who manage a former Nazi concentration camp have set up a Facebook page for the infamous establishment. Auschwitz, now a Polish state museum, was the site of over 1 million murders at the hands of the Nazi regime, and now has its very own Facebook presence, the BBC reports. Officials set up the page in an effort to raise awareness and further Holocaust education, seeing the...  

Do they get Facebook in Iran? Auschwitz Memorial Launches Facebook PageAssociated Press: The memorial museum at Auschwitz has launched a Facebook page, hoping that the popular social networking site will help it reach young people around the globe and engage them in discussions about the former Nazi death camp and the Holocaust. The site, which opened earlier this week, already has more than 1,800 "fans" who have subscribed, with the number...  

I’ve always had a weird feeling about the whole notion of Holocaust studies. I mean, 6 million Jews were murdered — how much more do I need to know? I can read 100 books on the subject — analyzing the who, what, where, why and how of this unspeakable atrocity — and still, I don’t think anything I read will come close to equaling these five words: Six million Jews were murdered.  

The horrors of the holocaust are more than just a history lesson or a museum info-graphic. As history sees it, there hasn’t been something of that magnitude to touch the earth with such malice, and thankfully so. However, everything you wanted to know about the torture chamber called Auschwitz is now available on Facebook. The police in charge of the site and the museum have found a novel way to reach out to youngsters who would like to know...  

So far, rather than come out and admit she made a mistake by attending and co-hosting a fundraiser with an organization who is on official record that the Armenian Holocaust did not happen, supporters of Chris Essel appear to be digging in their heels and at least on this blog are regurgitating bigoted propaganda claiming - against historical fact and the general consensus - that 1.5 million Armenian citizens were not slaughtered by the...  

October 22, 2009 WASHINGTON (JTA) — A group of prominent religious leaders called for an end to the use of “inappropriate Nazi and Holocaust references” in public debate. In an open letter to religious leaders, politicians, pundits and the public, the group wrote that it has seen “an alarming number of public figures use [...]  

Some researchers say up to a third of all Holocaust victims were executed not in camps, but by bullets. Most of them had been shot by German troops during the invasion of Russia. A French priest has spent years searching for mass graves and recording the memories of elderly witnesses. His organization has opened a display of the priest's work in Paris.  

Inge Auerbacher was the last Jewish child born in Kippenheim, a village in southwestern Germany. She was the only child of Berthold and Regina Auerbacher, who came from observant Jewish families and had lived for many generations in Germany.  

More than day since a story broke that CD2 Candidate Chris Essel organized a fundraiser with a Turkish-American organization that denies the Armenian Genocide ever took place there is radio silence from her campaign.  As well local journos and blogs, other than the LA Weekly and Mayor Sam, have yet to pick up on the explosive story.In the meantime, video has surfaced of Essel's opponent Paul Krekorian, following the passing of a resolution...  

TO STU Bykofsky: Thanks for the wonderful and enlightening column about the Rev. Hermann Scheipers. As a history buff, I find that I must often remind people that the Holocaust encompassed many groups of people including - but not limited to - Jews.  

Children practice before trying out for parts in the opera "Brundibar," which was first performed in the Czechoslovakian concentration camp of Terezin during World War II. From left are Camille Borrowdale, Emily Gennuso, Larissa Lief and Michelle Kain.The sheet music that 13-year-old Rachel Warne cradles in her hands calls for singing that is bright and hopeful. Yet Warne knows the music is born of darkness and pain. It's a piece...  

Sites found in:ConnectEngThe newsletter of Web English TeacherDecember 7, 2008----Holocausthttp://www.webenglishteacher.com/holocaust.html“Ideas for teaching Anne Frank, Night, Number the Stars, and other works.Scroll down on the page for WebQuests and other resources for teachinghistorical background. I had the historical material spread out over severalpages; it just made sense to put them all together.”-----Jon Scieszkahttp://www...  

WARSAW (AP) — The memorial museum at Auschwitz has launched a Facebook page hoping that the popular social-neworking site will help it reach young people around the globe and engage them in discussions about the former Nazi death camp and the...  

Mrs. Carl pointed me to this remarkable story of a small island in Greece whose Jews all survived the Holocaust. On September 9 1943, the governor of the German occupation named Berenz had asked the mayor, Loukas Karrer, for a list of all Jews on the island.Rejecting the demand after consulting with Bishop Chrysostomos, they decided to go together to the governor's office the next day. When  

This photograph shows shoes of holocaust victims collected and displayed at the museum at the former concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Shoes and other personal belongings of the victims were collected before their execution. Click on the image for a full size version which you can freely re-use and modify. Print it and use it for your lessons, integrate it into your pages on Wikiversity, or use it in other learning resources and...  

British National Party leader Nick Griffin on Thursday denied that he was a Nazi during an appearance on a leading British political debate television programme. The whites-only BNP opposes immigration and claims to fight for "indigenous" Britons.  

The strains of a tender guitar solo strummed by Rabbi David Paskin filled the auditorium of the South Area Solomon Schechter Day School in Norwood last week as two friends walked shoulder to shoulder to the stage.  

LA GRANGE — North Lenoir High School was the first school statewide to offer its students a class elective about the Holocaust. Now, seven North Carolina school districts — including Wake County Schools — allow students to learn more about the...  

HealthDay - MONDAY, Oct. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Among Jewish survivors of World War II, those who were potentially exposed to the Holocaust have an increased risk of cancer, likely due to physical and mental stress, an Israeli study has found.  

Manhattan, nY – A Canadian attorney and his family sued the Swiss government and a prominent Swiss museum for a Vincent Van Gogh pen-and-ink drawing they say their great-grandmother sold under duress as her family tried to flee the Nazis in their native Germany. Andrew Orkin, of Ontario, claims Oskar Reinhart, the Swiss art collector who [...]  

Talk about war reparations. There are some of us, mostly outliers, who have had [yeah, thankfully, it's behind me] our own private holocaust. We suffered at the hands of institutions and those the Beatles labeled the Blue Meanies in places...  

The Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and the Holocaust Center of the United Jewish Federation raised the curtain for more than 300 during a special opening night performance of Light/The Holocaust & Humanity Project at the Byham Theater on Thursday.  

A notorious Holocaust denier convicted of attacking Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel in an elevator has now set his sights on an 80-year-old Pembroke Pines woman whose memoir recounts her ordeal in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.  

If anyone in the Cracow ghetto stood a chance of surviving the Holocaust, it was Avraham Shapiro*. At 22 years old, he was a smart and resourceful young man whose mind had been honed during years of yeshiva study. He understood that the Germans were ...  

The memorial museum at Auschwitz has launched a Facebook page, hoping that the popular social networking site will help it reach young people around the globe and engage them in discussions about the former Nazi death camp and the Holocaust.  

The memorial museum at Auschwitz has launched a Facebook page, hoping that the popular social networking site will help it reach young people around the globe and engage them in discussions about the former Nazi death camp and the Holocaust.  

THE memorial museum at Auschwitz has launched a Facebook page, hoping that the popular social networking site will help it reach young people around the globe and engage them in discussions about the former Nazi death camp and the Holocaust.  

A Moment In Black History Many Thanks To Our Forefathers, 88 yrs. Ago. The Date Was June 1, 1921, "BLACK WALLSTREET" The name fittingly given to one of the most affluent All-BLACK Communities in America, was bombed from the air and ...  

Controversy has followed discredited British historian and accused Holocaust denier David Irving for decades. On Monday, it followed him to the Ritz-Carlton in Manalapan, Fla., where a man was stabbed as Irving spoke about World War II.  

Richardson residents named to state Holocaust boardDallas Morning News (blog)The Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission is intended to provide educational materials to schools and colleges, help implement course studies and ...Perry names 6 to new state Holocaust panelabc13.comPerry Names Six To New State Holocaust PanelKWTXall 4 news articles »  

Budget airline easyJet has withdrawn almost 300,000 copies of its in-flight magazine because of protests over its use of Holocaust memorial sites as a backdrop for a fashion feature, the U.K.'s Guardian newspaper reported Tuesday.  

When 81-year-old Laszlo Berkowits recently stood at the entrance of the gas chamber at the infamous Auschwitz death camp complex, it occurred to him this would have been where his mother saw her last bit of sunlight.read more  

Choreographer Stephen Mills attempts the impossible, to deal with the incomprehensible, in his "Light: The Holocaust & Humanity Project" that Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre presented Thursday night. Performances continue through Sunday.  

by BBG Skeletonwitch at Scion Rock Fest (more by Steven Brown) Skeletonwitch must pretty much live in their van. Luckily that means that NYC has another SW date to look forward to, 11/14 at Union Pool with the incredamazing Black...  

A New York City philanthropist for whom a Holocaust education conference at Seton Hill University is named will be honored this week with the Elizabeth Ann Seton Woman of Courage Award.  

In an embarrassing change of course, the budget airline easyJet has pulped almost 300,000 copies of its in-flight magazine because of a monumental row over its use of a Holocaust memorial as a location for a fashion shoot.  

MUNICH, Germany: Holocaust survivors on Tuesday accused John Demjanjuk of exaggerating his health problems to try to derail his trial ahead of harrowing testimony on the horrors of the Sobibor Nazi death camp.  

Is this the last Nazi war crimes trial? As the clock ticks down on the life span of suspects, that may be an obvious question. But the answer is anything but.  

William Basch, a retired Los Angeles garment industry executive who was one of the Holocaust survivors whose stories were told in the Oscar-winning documentary “The Last Days,’’ has died. He was 82.  

Vineland, NJ – Esther Raab says she remembers John Demjanjuk. She remembers him as a Ukrainian soldier, working in a Nazi death camp in Poland when she was a captive there in 1943. He would bring ammunition into the armory, where it would be fed into chains for machine guns. He would then leave with the [...]  

Oscar Schindler may have become a household name for rescuing his fellow Jews from the Nazis, but a lesser known Jewish figure, who also protected a group of Jews during the Holocaust, is now the focus of a new documentary.  

MARSHFIELD -- If Eva Mozes Kor found a way to forgive the men and women who separated her family, murdered her parents and performed scientific experiments on her, then she knows anyone can have the power of forgiveness.  

Shepsel 'Shep' Zitler holds a picture of his family taken in 1936 in Vilna, Poland, now Vilnius, Lithuania. All those portrayed in the photo except one sister and himself perished at the hands of the Nazis. Shepsel "Shep" Zitler, a dry-goods ...  

Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu A7 NewsJohn Demjanjuk, whose apparent handicapped condition is in doubt, is scheduled to face Holocaust survivors on the second day of his war crimes trial Tuesday. The trial may be the last major court case of its kind as most Nazi criminals die off. Thirty plaintiffs, most of whom are relatives of the death camp victims, are to testify Tuesday. There are no known living survivors of Sobibor.Demjanjuk, 89, appeared in court...  

Funeral services were held Wednesday for Marina del Rey resident William "Bill" Basch, who came to the United States as a penniless Holocaust survivor and became a successful manufacturer of high-end women's apparel.  

Filling the auditorium were immigrants from the Horn of Africa including Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Djibouti. On the podium, the four main conference speakers - academic experts and human rights activists - painted a picture of crisis that ...  

In 2001, Demjanjuk was again put on trial – this time for having served as a guard at Sobibor and other Nazi concentration camps in Poland and Germany. He was convicted, and in 2004, his U.S. citizenship was once again revoked. A year later, he was ...  

However, Holocaust denial has an implicit intent to engender hatred. Its insidious antisemitism is evident in its clear implication that the Holocaust is an invention of Jews or their agents. Jews are thus depicted as manipulative and powerful conspirators who have fabricated myths of their own suffering for their own ends. According to the Holocaust deniers, by forging evidence and mounting a massive propaganda effort, the Jews have...  

In a 2005 guest appearance on the sitcom Extras Kate Winslet, playing herself as nun on a Holocaust film is asked “You doing this, it's so commendable, using your profile to keep the message alive about the Holocaust.”  

In a 2005 guest appearance on the sitcom Extras Kate Winslet, playing herself as nun on a Holocaust film is asked “You doing this, it's so commendable, using your profile to keep the message alive about the Holocaust.”  

Manhattan, NY – A 79-year-old Holocaust survivor who runs a kosher cafe on Madison Avenue is suing his landlords for discrimination, claiming they illegally prevented him from selling his business while simultaneously depriving him of customers by walling him off with a decorative door. “My youth, my childhood were taken from me in World War II. [...]  

The two men haven't seen each other since the Soviet Army liberated Ostra Mogila, Poland, in 1944A Holocaust survivor and the Polish Christian who risked his life to save him are especially grateful this Thanksgiving season: The two men were reunited for the first time in 65 years. Joseph Bonder, 81, went to John F. Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday afternoon to welcome Bronislaw Firuta, 83, from Wroclaw, Poland. "My dear, beloved...  

The Holocaust is often thought of as one of the darkest times in world history. The Nazis killed as many as six million jews as well as millions of people from other groups, including prisoners of war and homosexuals.  

PROSECUTORS accused 89-year-old John Demjanjuk yesterday of knowingly herding thousands of Jews to their deaths in the Holocaust and standing by as victims of Nazi death camp Sobibor screamed in fear.  

Body language was the only language Joseph Bonder needed to say "thank you" to Bronislaw Firuta, when the two met at JFK International Airport under the bright light of camera flashes in a media room here.  

More than 60 years ago, Firuta's family hid Bonder and his sister Joan in their dimly lit attic in the remote village of Ostra Mogila in Nazi-occupied Poland. At 3:22 p.m. Wednesday, Firuta, a Christian, held Bonder, a Jew, in a long embrace. Firuta ...  

they are dropped back into the sea, where they die a slow and painful death. Further east, in Indonesia, I witnessed the mass destruction of rain forests to make way for palm oil plantations. Indonesia is now the world's leading producer of palm oil —  

New York – It has been 64 years since Joseph Bonder and Bronislaw Firuta parted ways in Poland after the end of World War II. Bronislaw and his family risked their lives to save Joseph and his sister, Joan, who escaped from the infamous Skalat Ghetto. Bronsilaw’s family hid Joseph and Joan in their home and [...]  

Queens, NY -Body language was the only language Joseph Bonder needed to say “thank you” to Bronislaw Firuta, when the two met at JFK International Airport under the bright light of camera flashes in a media room here. More than 60 years ago, Firuta’s family hid Bonder and his sister Joan in their dimly lit attic [...]  

Earlier this year, before Angela Merkel's re-election as chancellor, the BBC's then Europe editor, Mark Mardell, called Germany "the most grown-up country in the world". Whether you share that judgement or not, Hans Kundnani's superb chronicle of ...