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In New York, Many Holocaust Survivors Struggle to Get By

WALL STREET JOURNAL by Sophia Hollander May 19, 2015 José Urbach’s earliest memories come from a concentration camp in Poland, where he and other children survived by hiding between flea-bitten mattresses during the daily SS officer inspections. After the war, Mr. … Continue reading

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A “Nakba” Museum in Washington, DC?

MIDDLE EAST FORUM by Michel Gurfinkiel April 24, 2015 Bshara Nassar — a self-described “peacebuilder and social entrepreneur, a graduate of Bethlehem University, Palestine,” with “a master’s degree in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University” – leads a campaign called … Continue reading

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Former Auschwitz SS guard, Holocaust survivor embrace at trial

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Associated Press and Staff April 25, 2015 A former Auschwitz guard on trial for 300,000 counts of accessory to murder and a Holocaust survivor whose family was killed in the camp embraced briefly during court proceedings, … Continue reading

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The Thirty One Years

From a friend: After the fall of the Iron Curtain, what was mistaken for the end of history was nothing more than our ignorance of history.  It never left us, though too many still do not know it. PJ MEDIA by … Continue reading

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Official PA daily on the Holocaust: “There were between one and two million Jewish victims.”

PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik April 19, 2015 On the occasion of the Israeli remembrance day for the victims of the Holocaust last week, a regular columnist in the official Palestinian Authority daily wrote an … Continue reading

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Holocaust Remembrance Day Address by PM Netanyahu at Yad Vashem

PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE April 17, 2015 Seventy years ago, the bells of freedom rang out across the free world. The horrific nightmare that had engulfed all humanity in blood had come to an end in Europe. But the day the … Continue reading

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Holocaust film reveals long-hushed child sex abuse

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Renee Ghert-Zand April 15, 2015 A documentary film premiering Wednesday evening on Israeli television sheds light on a dark corner of what is already the blackest of historical events. “Screaming Silence,” which will be broadcast on … Continue reading

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Iran Holocaust cartoon contest draws hundreds of entries

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Joshua Davidovich and Justin Jalil April 7, 2015 Hundreds of people from Iran and around the world have submitted art for a “Holocaust cartoon contest,” an official from the competition said Monday. Secretary Masud Shojaei-Tabatabaii told Iran’s semi-official Fars … Continue reading

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Why Are James Fallows and His Commenters Annoyed by the Holocaust?

TABLET MAG by James Kirchick March 19, 2015 The ugly accusation that Jews ‘use’ the Shoah to drive nations to war migrates from the swamps of the right to the foreign policy left….Leading the brave charge against Jewish conniving in … Continue reading

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EVENT Lincolnwood screening “Skokie: Invaded But Not Conquered”

LINCOLNWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY Roehri Room 4000 West Pratt Avenue, Lincolnwood, IL 60712 Sunday, March 1, 2:00pm No charge for this event In 1977, Skokie was shaken to its core when a small group of neo-Nazis tried to march there. This … Continue reading

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