How Jan. 27 came to be International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
A historian of the Holocaust and curator of the Auschwitz exhibition, now in Toronto, invites all who gather on Jan. 27 to ...
Pope Francis urges eradication of antisemitism, says horror of the Holocaust must never be forgotten
On the eve of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Pope Francis also noted that many Christians were killed in Nazi concentration camps.
Holocaust Remembrance Day: A town once inhabited by Nazis reconciles with the past
As Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked on Jan. 27, a town in southwestern Germany unflinchingly confronts its past and ...
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Just 50 Holocaust survivors will be at Auschwitz for the 80th anniversary of its liberation
The dwindling numbers offer a stark representation of the declining population of survivors who are still able to tell their ...
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“We have to march this year. It might be our last chance.”
This year’s March of the Living may be the last chance for young participants to walk with survivors and bear witness to ...
Where was God in the Holocaust? A NY poet and activist asks the question in a book of ‘psalms’
Never again” pledges to stop all genocide. A commitment to honor and assist the dwindling number of survivors and to fight ...
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Claims Conference Survey: Most Americans Believe a Holocaust Could Happen Again
Julius Berman, President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), on Thursday released a comprehensive national survey of Holocaust awareness and knowledge ...
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Fauci receives award from Holocaust remembrance group and references Maimonides
the March of the Living honored Dr. Anthony Fauci with an award for “moral courage in medicine” on the eve of Yom Hashoah, Israel’s Holocaust commemoration day. The award to Fauci ...
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A Few ‘Normal’ Days in Israel
Noa is the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor and last spring participated in the International March of the Living, where she sang at Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp on Yom HaShoah. And then ...
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The healing power of maror
In a few short weeks we will be confronted with Yom HaShoah, Yom Hazikaron, and Yom Ha’atzmaut — all three will be particularly heavy and poignant this year. That is a reality that cannot be ...
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God suffers with us
That means that we are free to reject God. Which means that God is not all-powerful. Today is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is a Yom HaShoah unlike any in recent memory, because of ...