From Those Who Harm Israel Will Pay the Full Price: Predictions regarding Israel’s possible demise are becoming increasingly fashionable among some elements worldwide. Israel is the only country in the world that sees other countries calling for wiping it off the map. On Holocaust Memorial Day, we are permitted to – and in fact, obligated to – make it clear to others that there...
Survivors of Exodus 1947 Preserve Stories
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), in conjunction with several groups in Israel, is working on a project to find surviving passengers and crew members of the Exodus 1947.
Nazi archive will help save lost names
To rescue a name is to rescue a life from oblivion. Via Yahoo News: When Bill Connelly heard that the heirs of a collector of Jewish memorial books were cleaning out his library, he rushed to New York and fished dozens of the Yiddish-language volumes out of a municipal trash bin. With their lists of residents from long vanished European communities — sometimes recorded street by street — the...
Romanian named ‘righteous gentile’
An heartfelt thank you to the Criveanu family. From Jpost: Yad Vashem on Wednesday posthumously honored a Romanian reserves officer who blocked the deportation of Romanian Jews to Nazi death camps. Theodor Criveanu was inducted into Yad Vashem’s “Righteous Among the Nations” group of non-Jews who rescued Jews from the Nazis. His son, Willie Criveanu, accepted the award on his...
65th anniversary of Sebastopol massacre marked in Ukraine
Received by email.65th anniversary of Sebastopol massacre marked in Ukraine18 July 2007In the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Sebastopol, the 65th anniversary of the Nazi massacre of Jews during World War II has been commemorated. Holocaust survivors, local officials and Jews from Crimea marked the anniversary on Sunday in a ceremony near the city’s Holocaust memorial. More than 4,200 citizens of...
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Bulgarians mark rescue of Jews
From JTA: Bulgarians paid tribute to the 64th anniversary of the rescue ofthe country’s Jewish population from the Nazis. Bulgarians laid flowers Thursday at the memorial plaques near Saint Sofia Cathedral in honor of those who supported the Jews. Parliamentary Chief Georgi Pirinski laid flowers at a plaque near the National Assembly in Sofia, recalling the valor of parliamentarians during...
Holocaust Memorials defiled by neo-Nazis
From Times Online: The German authorities were preparing for criticism from the Jewish community after it was revealed that a Holocaust memorial in Berlin was being used as a public lavatory by tourists and by neo-Nazi sympathisers. The disclosure, in a Berlin newspaper, will trigger a new debate about how the Holocaust should be remembered in Germany. One argument against building the monument...
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