Joining hands and hearts to keep Holocaust memory alive, fighting hatred and genocide
Joining hands and hearts to keep Holocaust memory alive, fighting hatred and genocide
Polish public television TVP SA produced this documentary about the Warsaw 2011 conference. Click on the video below to watch. Polish and English with some Polish subtitles. Children Of The Holocaust (Polish TV) Warsaw 2011 from WFJHS&D on Vimeo. Polish TV documentary about the 2011 Warsaw meeting of the World Federation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors Continue Reading »
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On August 29th, the World Federation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors & Descendants met in Warsaw Poland for an historic… Speeches Professor Adam Rotfeld gave a speech about forgiveness and reconciliation. To read the speech, click here: Professor Adam Rotfeld’s Speech “Memory of Nations. About the Right to Forgive and Reconciliation” Videos Opening night ceremony video: Continue Reading »
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Since 1963 a special commission of Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem, headed by the Israel’s Supreme Court, has been awarding Righteous Among the Nations medals and certificates of honour (Chasid umot ha-Olam). This decoration pays tribute to the Heroes who were putting their lives in danger in order to Continue Reading »
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 in postcommunist Poland from 2002, the year when the public debate about the Jedwabne massacre Continue Reading »
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 Baltic region of what he calls “Holocaust Obfuscation”, the attempt to potentially write the Holocaust Continue Reading »
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 a noose in the home of a hanged man. But Toomas Hendrik Ilves, the president Continue Reading »
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 propagated the unprecedented horror of the Holocaust, the attempt to eradicate an entire people on Continue Reading »
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 over the issue of Holocaust revisionism, and it erupted last week at a conference in Continue Reading »
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