Please enjoy this video about the new Museum Of The History Of Polish Jews, in Warsaw Poland.
Mar 122013
This article was published in the New York Times Sunday magazine (Eric Lichtblau, March 1, 2013). Many people thought the number of camps was around 10,000, but here we find a new number – upwards of 40,000. The author’s conclusion – every German [click to read more]
Las Vegas Conference for 2013 25th Annual International Conference World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants in cooperation with Generations of the Shoah International For Child Survivors, 2nd and 3rd Generations and Families Las Vegas, Nevada, [click to read more]
We are pleased to publish the Spring 2012 edition of Mishpocha!, which features coverage of the successful Warsaw 2011 Conference. To download the PDF file, please click here.
Feb 062012
2012 United Nations Holocaust Remembrance: The 2012 observance of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust focussed on the theme, “Children and the Holocaust”. The theme served to highlight the impact of mass violence [click to read more]
New important article by Professor Joanna Michlic titled: “Remembering to Remember,” “Remembering to Benefit,” “Remembering to Forget”: The Variety of Memories of Jews and the Holocaust in Postcommunist Poland This interpretive essay considers the representations of Jews and the Holocaust [click to read more]
From Engage Online: After many years as professor of Yiddish and Judaic Studies at Vilnius University, Lithuania, and research director of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute, Professor Dovid Katz felt he could not remain silent at the growing campaign in the [click to read more]
By Yossi Melman According to the Estonian president’s distorted logic, the Jewish victims who were murdered by the Estonians during the Holocaust, and the Estonian hangmen who annihilated the Jews, are “partners.” It’s not a good idea to mention [click to read more]
By Timothy Snyder Who was worse, Hitler or Stalin? In the second half of the twentieth century, Americans were taught to see both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union as the greatest of evils. Hitler was worse, because his regime [click to read more]
By Toby Axelrod BERLIN (JTA) — Was the Soviet Union a force for good or ill during the Nazi years? That question is at the core of a controversy between and among some Jewish groups and former Soviet republics [click to read more]
Clemens Heni, Ph.D., Berlin, scholar and author, former Post-Doc at Yale (09/2009-08/2009) We are facing two big antisemitic movements today: first the Iranian threat against Israel and the Jews in particular, Muslim or Islamic antisemitism in general. Second we are [click to read more]
By YEHUDA BAUER Despite the disproportionately large number of Jewish victims of Stalinism, neither can one talk of a genocide of the Jews at Soviet hands. Tomorrow many countries will mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, established by the UN in [click to read more]
Dec 092011
Our Winter 2011 newsletter has been published. Click here to download PDF
Dec 082011
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In The Lost Children, Tara Zahra tells the heartbreaking stories of child survivors of World War II, whose fate was often decided by ideological battles, policy debates, and lingering ethnic tensions At the end of World War II, several hundred [click to read more]
The World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) acknowledges the significant step taken today with the passage of legislation by the Lithuanian Seimas (Parliament) which provides for limited compensation for communal and religious property owned by the Jewish community of Lithuania before [click to read more]
This is the story of an orthodox Jewish rescuer in the south of France who managed to save more than one hundred children during the worst time of persecution – after the German occupation of Vichy France. This rabbi from [click to read more]
Dec 282009
Before WWII, Jewish religion, culture and heritage flourished in Poland. The Nazis murdered 3 million out of 3.5 million of Poland’s Jews and in the process purposely set out to destroy all traces of Jewish heritage, including cemeteries and synagogues. [click to read more]
Read the Spring 2008 edition of Mishpocha! here: Mishpocha Spring 2008
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