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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 ...
A Holocaust survivor has been killed in a fire on Long Island that may have been sparked by a cigarette.
William H. Donat, a child survivor of the Warsaw ghetto who went on to be a Holocaust educator locally, died Nov. 3 after battling prostate cancer. He was 71 and lived in Purchase.
Cleveland artist Thomas Salomon is proud to be a dumpster diver. His arresting collection of large Holocaust collages, “In Memoriam; Responses to the Unanswerable,” contains remnants of cracked wooden pallets, scrap metal, menacing chains, dangling ropes or pieces of broken baby furniture.
Two Holocaust survivors will launch the 20th Annual College of St. Elizabeth (CSE) Week of Holocaust Remembrance at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, in the Annunciation Center’s Dolan Performance Hall, on campus at 2 Convent Road, Morristown.
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WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The Anti-Defamation League is urging Republican congressional leaders to "condemn forcefully the invocation of Holocaust imagery" at last week's rally against health care reform.
Two Holocaust survivors will launch the 20th annual “Week of Holocaust Remembrance” at the College of St. Elizabeth at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, in the Annunciation Center’s Dolan Performance Hall on the campus at 2 Convent Road in Morris Township.
Several hundred individuals were on hand to celebrate a major event in Queensborough Community College (QCC) history on Sunday, October 18 – the ribbon cutting of the new building for The Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archives.
Jim Rizoli said he had lost 75 percent of his carpet cleaning business since he used his weekly Framingham cable TV show to defend Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and point his audience to a Web site that denies the Holocaust. In his Oct. 13 show he said of the Iranian president: "Not that I'm supporting him, or saying I'm behind him, but I want to let you understand something.
Wallenberg Endowment recipient and renowned Holocaust survivor, William Basch, whose story was told in Steven Spielberg’s 1998 Academy Award-winning documentary, “The Last Days,” died Oct. 26 at 82.
Teaneck high school rededicated its Holocaust Center on Tuesday night, more than 20 years after the center was established to ensure that students would learn about one of history's darkest eras.
Fire officials said man whose son had talked to him about "careless smoking" was found dead.
The Kristallnacht Remembrance Service recalled the events of Nov. 9 and 10, 1938, what came to be known as the beginning of the Holocaust. Six million Jews across Europe would die at the hands of Hitler's Nazis.
Only the opening of the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center was as special in the museum's brief history as Sunday's commemoration of the 71st anniversary of Kristallnacht. "This is one of many remarkable days that this remarkable institution has enjoyed in our very short six months of life," said Museum Executive Director Rick Hirschhaut. "This is probably the second most important day ...
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...
