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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On his first visit to the Auschwitz memorial museum, 17-year-old Armando Broja already knew a fair amount about the Holocaust.
The Jewish genocide is taught in schools in …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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5/8/19
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has come under fire for saying that the crimes of the Holocaust can be forgiven.
“We can forgive, but we cannot forget,” Bolsonaro …
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JTA/JNS
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4/18/19
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Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” These words, from George Orwell’s famous novel 1984 were often called upon during the Cold War as a …
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By Ben Cohen
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3/13/19
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