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Tag Archives: Holocaust
When the Nazis demanded at gunpoint that Edmonds identify personally which soldiers in his company were Jews, he refused. “We are all Jews here,” he said, saving up to 200 Jewish soldiers, whose identities he protected.
JNS Congressional bills aim to give highest honor to ‘Righteous Gentile’ Roddie Edmonds Mike Wagenheim May 1, 2023 Both houses of Congress reintroduced legislation this week to honor the late Roddie Edmonds, who put his life in danger to save … Continue reading
Anti-Israel groups unite to fight IHRA definition
ALGEMEINER ‘Political Warfare Against Israel’: 60 NGOs Sign Letter Opposing UN Adoption of IHRA Antisemitism Definition Andrew Bernard April 4, 2023 60 human and civil rights organizations on Tuesday released a joint open letter urging the United Nations not to … Continue reading
“Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust” (another reminder that Wikipedia articles are not always reliably accurate)
JTA Wikipedia’s ‘Supreme Court’ tackles alleged conspiracy to distort articles on Holocaust Asaf Elia-Shalev February 28, 2023 When a pair of professors earlier this month published a paper accusing a group of Wikipedia editors from Poland of revising articles to … Continue reading
Book of Names, with the names of 4.8 million Holocaust victims, to be inaugurated at UN, underscoring individual identities of the victims
ARUTZ SHEVA Holocaust ‘Book of Names’ to be unveiled at the UN Renee Ghert-Zand, JTA January 24, 2023 …To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, Yad Vashem is inaugurating its Book of Names — a monumental installation containing … Continue reading
Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt” is a “brilliant depiction of a Viennese family lost to the Holocaust and a personal reckoning for an author trying to live without links to the past”
JNS Mourning a failed escape from history for assimilated Jews Jonathan S Tobin October 3, 2022 …“Leopoldstadt,” which premiered in London in 2020 before its initial run was cut short by the coronavirus pandemic, finally had its long-postponed Broadway opening … Continue reading
The US and the #Holocaust: “Public opinion was not in charge of US immigration policy; President Roosevelt was”
TIMES OF ISRAEL PBS Holocaust documentary perpetuates well-worn myths to glorify FDR, says historian Matt Lebovic September 18, 2022 Early in his new film “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” documentarian Ken Burns claims the United States admitted more Jewish refugees … Continue reading
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Tagged Holocaust, Ken Burns, Martha's Vineyard, Rafael Medoff
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In 2015, #USHMM US Holocaust Memorial Museum reached out to Burns with a request: Would he consider making a film about America during the #Holocaust?
JTA Ken Burns’ PBS documentary ‘The U.S. And The Holocaust’ asks hard questions about how Americans treated Jews and immigrants during wartime Andrew Lapin September 2, 2022 One of the first people introduced in Ken Burns’ new documentary series about … Continue reading
“In the 14-minute film was a three-minute section of their visit to Kurtz’s grandfather’s home village of #Nasielsk, #Poland, a town whose Jewish community would be decimated by the #Holocaust not long after”
JTA How 3 minutes of a home movie from 1938 turned into an acclaimed Holocaust documentary Stephen Silver August 26, 2022 In 2009, writer Glenn Kurtz was working on a novel about “someone who discovers an old piece of home … Continue reading
“It was the Lion of Judah engraved on the door of a synagogue that helped him identify it as his grandfather’s hometown of Nasielsk, Poland, about 30 miles north of Warsaw”
NEW YORK POST Devastating lost footage of Polish Jews revealed in new Holocaust doc Johnny Oleksinski August 19, 2022 One day in 2009, Glenn Kurtz made a shocking discovery. In the Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, home of his late grandfather … Continue reading
Abbas comparison to systematic killing of 6 million Jews drew ire and calls for an apology from around the world
ALL ISRAEL NEWS Mahmoud Abbas and the ‘monstrous lie’ of the 50 Holocausts committed by Israel against Palestinians Nicole Jansezian August 17, 2022 Rather than apologize when asked by a reporter whether he regretted the murder by Palestinians of 11 … Continue reading
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Tagged antisemitism, Holocaust, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinians
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