Holocaust Research

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...  

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 [...]  

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 [...]  

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.  

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.  

Jerusalem-----September 20..... It is a sad day in Israel. A sad day for all Jews, Christians and other persecuted men, women and children who survived the European Holocaust. Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who helped track down Nazi war ...  

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...  

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..  

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.  

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.  

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.  

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.  

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 ...  

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