In July 1943, Renia Kukielka boarded a train from Warsaw to Bedzin with 22 false visas sewn into her skirt. During the inspection, she “bravely opened her packs,” maintaining eye …
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By Lori Weintrob
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8/5/21
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As I sit down to write this week’s column, I’m thinking about what I will eat before and after the fast (I’d rather not think about the …
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By Judy Joszef
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7/16/21
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Anyone teaching the past by skipping over the unpleasant parts isn’t teaching history. …
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By Henry Abramson
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7/16/21
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Armani, known for being sleek and polished, recently stumbled. Big time.
It all started in early April when a private citizen named Janet Rosenblatt spotted a striped jacket in the window of …
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By Melissa Langsam Braunstein
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4/28/21
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As the world marks Yom Hashoah — Holocaust Memorial Day — this week, the enduring strength of the Jewish family is on full view in a new online exhibition …
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By Deborah Fineblum, JNS
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4/7/21
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Volkswagen chief executive Herbert Diess issued a public apology after using the line Ebit macht frei at a company event. The phrase echoed the words arbeit macht frei, meaning “work sets you …
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By Gabriel Eichler, JNS
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4/7/21
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UJA-Federation of New York is campaigning to insert into New York State’s estimated $103.4 billion budget an allocation of $2.5 million in aid for poverty-stricken Holocaust survivors.
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By Jeffrey Bessen
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3/22/21
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Twenty years ago this week, my book, “IBM and the Holocaust,” exposed with crystal clarity — backed up with a literal tower of physical documentation — that IBM knowingly …
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By Edwin Black
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2/10/21
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Elie Wiesel penned his first memoir about being a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps while traveling on a ship from Europe to Brazil in 1954. Later, reworking …
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By Fiamma Nirenstein
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2/3/21
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The normalization of relations between Israel and Morocco and the US recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara have stirred interest in the history of Morocco’s …
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By Rafael Medoff
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12/30/20
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