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 302011
My father, Sergeant Norman Fisher of the 134th Mobile Gun Battalion of the U.S. Army, wrote hundreds of letters to his sweetheart back home when he served overseas during World War II. That sweetheart became my mother and recently I [click to read more]
Dec 092011
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Dec 082011
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Speech by Professor Adam Rotfeld about forgiveness and reconciliation given at the Warsaw 2011 conference. Click here to read the speech: Professor Adam Rotfeld’s Speech “Memory of Nations. About the Right to Forgive and Reconciliation”
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]
Presented at the Chicago/Skokie 2010 Conference. Listen now: You can download the file here: Cantor Mizrahi Concert
Presented at the Chicago/Skokie 2010 Conference. Listen now: You can download the file here: Peter Hayes Lecture: Teaching The Holocaust
22th Annual International Conference of Child Survivors and Families, 2G & 3G Skokie, Chicago, Illinois, USA November 4-7, 2010 Speech by Professor Peter Hayes, ”Teaching the Holocaust in 21st Century”. Listen now: You can download the file here: Peter Hayes Lecture: [click to read more]
For information on Jewish genealogical and records research in Poland, how to access documents, find family members, etc.. please see Jewish Records Indexing – Poland. Holocaust survivors may be unaware that a remarkable number of Jewish records of Poland have survived the [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]
Click here to listen: Click here to downoad the file: Rabbi_Moshe_Waldoks_Speech.mp3
Dec 282009
21st Annual International Conference Generation To Generation… L’Dor V’Dor Proceedings Registration Packet: 2009 Boston Conference Registration Packet Speech of Rabbi Moshe Waldoks Click here to listen: Click here to downoad the file: Rabbi_Moshe_Waldoks_Speech.mp3 Jewish Rescuers Panel Presentation George Mandel-Mantello, Presented [click to read more]
Dec 282009
George Mandel-Mantello Judith Cohen, USHMM Thank you for allowing me to address you. I would like to talk today about a remarkable man and the rescue effort he led – the Romanian/Hungarian Jewish businessman Gyorgy Mandl, aka George Mandel-Mantello. [click to read more]
TWO STORIES OF YOUNG JEWISH RESCUERS WHO OPERATED IN THE DUTCH WESTERWEEL UNDERGROUND GROUP WHICH INCLUDED JEWS AND NON-JEWS CHANA ARNON JERUSALEM JRJ COMMITTEE To read the full presentation, please click here to download the PDF: JRJ Presentation Boston 2009, [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]
20th Annual International Conference of Child Survivors and Families, 2G & 3G Alexandria, Virginia (Wash DC), USA November 7-10, 2008 “Remembrance and Continuity” Registration Packet Conference Photos
Presented by Svetlana Shklarov, MD, RSW, PhD, Calgary, Canada According to the Claims Conference, there remain over 114,000 Jewish survivors of the Holocaust in the Former Soviet Union (FSU)(Tighe, Saxe, & Chertok, 2008). At least one third of these survivors [click to read more]
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