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SMITHFIELD - Elie Wiesel, the author, poet and activist whose insights as a Holocaust survivor have helped to inspire millions of Jews and non-Jews alike, says he still dreads the thought that the world may one day lose its memory.
Members of the Spring Lake Park school community last month welcomed Holocaust survivor Peter Fischl, 79, for a presentation in the high school Performing Arts Center. Fischl spoke for an hour Nov. 17 about his life experience in Hungary and, later, in the United States.
NEW YORK — This Thanksgiving season marks the reunion — after 64 years — of a Holocaust survivor and the Polish Christian who risked his life to save him.
Anne Frank, A History For Today, which opened Dec. 3 at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, marks the institution's second traveling exhibition in its downstairs space.
Holocaust survivor Erna Blitzer Gorman will address Northern Michigan University graduates on Saturday, Dec. 12.
“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 ...
The 12th Annual Holocaust Commemoration will take place this week with a special focus on the Japanese occupation on Nanking, China during World War II, among other activities.
Jim Lucot was honored as the recipient of the 2009 Robert I. Goldman Award for Excellence in Holocaust Education, which is given each year to a teacher in the United States by the New York-based Jewish Foundation for the Righteous.
ATLANTIC CITY - The Boardwalk between New York and Kentucky Avenues in this gambling resort - near a condo high-rise, an amusement pier, and a row of shops - may seem an unlikely place for a Holocaust memorial.
Inge Auerbacher was once a girl, not much different from those in the audience at Clear Run Intermediate School on Friday.
Multinational training in the Holocaust and a year in Poland give two Wilmington Friends School seventh-grade teachers unusual depth in their lessons on the Holocaust.
Last week, Emory’s campus hosted Palestine week. Last Friday, an offensive cartoon was published by Dylan Woodliff equating the current situation in Gaza to the Holocaust. This weekend, a fire of unknown origin occurred at the AEPi house, which is a predominantly Jewish fraternity.
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.
From the Holocaust to JFK, artist Henry Koerner experienced and captured major milestones of the 20th century. Now, the von Liebig Art Center, in conjunction with the Holocaust Museum of Southwest Florida, both of Naples, presents Koerner’s work in the first major U.S. retrospective of his art since 1984.Koerner’s paintings will be at the von Liebig; his black-and-white photographs will be at ...
For veteran director/screenwriter Paul Schrader seeing his film Adam Resurrected appear in this year's Israel Film Festival in New York is a little like coming...
CALDWELL – Following a reunion at JFK International Airport on Wednesday, Nov. 25, two Polish men whose paths crossed during World War II will attend Sabbath services together at Congregation Agudath Israel in Caldwell on Saturday morning, Nov. 28.
