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Associated Press - December 9, 2009 7:25 PM ET AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry has chosen a chairman and five other members to sit on the newly created Texas Holocaust and Genocide...
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.
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 ...
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.
The former congresswoman has always had problems with anti-Semites around her, but she's gone further lately
Anne Frank had one thing wrong in her legendary diary. She wrote that no one will be interested in the musings of a 13-year-old girl. For more than half a century, people have been more than just interested. Since its first publication in 1947, Anne Frank's diary has been translated into dozens of languages under different versions. The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center brings shares ...
Holocaust survivor Ester Raab, 70, of Vineland, was one of 300 prisoners who escaped the Nazi death camp Sobibor and one of 46 who survived.
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.
Despite a tense giving environment, the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust reported a 50 percent increase in attendance at their second annual fundraising dinner, which took place at The Beverly Hills Hotel on Nov. 8.
Do you think more county judges will be charged in the federal corruption probe? COOLBAUGH TOWNSHIP, MONROE COUNTY - A woman who survived the Holocaust and went on to become an award winning author brought history to life for students in the Pocono Mountain Area School District.
(JTA) — A Holocaust survivor and the man whose family hid him from the Nazis in Poland reunited for the first time in 64 years. Joseph Bonder, 81, and Bronislaw Firuta, 82, met Nov. 25 in New York, where they came to be honored by the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous.
North Mecklenburg High School students designed butterflies Tuesday in remembrance of the children that died in the Holocaust.
Yoav Shamir is an Israeli who wondered why his country has such an obsession with Nazis, the Holocaust and anti-Semitism. For Shamir, the constant reference to the...
