Following a legal fight, the family of Irma Klein last year finally got Dutch restitution officials to recognize that the Nazi occupation forced Klein to sell her Wassily Kandinsky …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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7/24/19
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After decades of relative obscurity, the tale of the Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara has become one of the best-known Holocaust rescue stories, rivaling those of Oskar Schindler and Irena …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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5/22/19
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It’s not an unfamiliar frame for describing the rise of the new nationalism: There’s a bad wind blowing through the West, and nothing less than democracy is at …
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA
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5/15/19
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Max Merten had been a loyal employee of Hitler’s Third Reich. Yet a few years later, he became an esteemed official in the new German Democracy’s Justice Ministry. …
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By Celia Weintrob
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5/15/19
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Students from the HAFTR high school in Cedarhurst hung Holocaust-related art in the lobby of Congregation Beth Sh0lom …
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5/8/19
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A packed audience at the Five Towns Holocaust Commemoration was told that “however many times we proclaim ‘never again,’ it is happening again and again and …
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By Ed Weintrob
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5/8/19
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Hundreds of people in West Hempstead …
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By Jennifer S. Zwiebel
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5/8/19
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A child’s shoe with a sock neatly tucked inside by its owner. Battered suitcases in a glass case. Letters addressed to loved ones, thrown out of cattle car windows by victims headed for …
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By Lisa Schiffman
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5/8/19
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Eva Heyman is an energetic 13-year-old Jewish girl with a bright smile. Go to her Instagram page and you’ll see selfies of the brown-haired teen with her best friends, videos she filmed while …
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By Josefin Dolsten, JTA
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5/8/19
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On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, a public high school in the Austrian capital corrected its own historical record.
Along with a memorial to World War II soldiers, the Gymnasium …
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By Toby Axelrod, JTA
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5/8/19
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