Holocaust Remembrance: By the Numbers
January 27 is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and was designated as the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. The day remembers the killing of six million Jews, two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population, and millions of others by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
This Christmas, Jewish nonprofit doles out its largest disbursement to ‘righteous gentiles’
Nearly 100 people, who saved Jews during the Holocaust, will receive $325,500 from the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous this holiday season.
Calling on Christians: Be a modern day Bonhoeffer; Fight Hamas
The antisemitism spreading across the world seems eerily similar to the hatred of the Nazi rallies of pre-war Germany. In this context, the October 7 massacre became the Kristallnacht of our era.
How Never Again Failed Us
Never Again is hard to implement if we are not focusing on how it happened in the first place. (Even if it was not the first time.)
Pope Pius XII knew from Jesuit priest about Nazi death camp – sources
It was also revealed that the pope had a Nazi dagger adorned with a swastika in his personal chambers.
A Bavarian scandal shines a light on Germany’s ‘Holocaust guilt’
“Anyone who thinks, writes down and spreads such thoughts must not bear any political responsibility in Germany,” declared Saskia Esken, chair of the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD). But not everyone would agree.
Memories in a Living Room – How Yitzhak survived the Holocaust without losing faith
For one day each year, the entire Israel focuses its attention on the six million Jews who were brutally murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators.
Holocaust Memorial Day sees thousands of Portuguese children visit Oporto Holocaust Museum
The event was opened by the Israeli Ambassador to Portugal Dor Shapira who spoke with the children.
Where Holocaust commemoration succeeded and where it failed
Museums, archives of testimonies and educational efforts preserved the survivors’ legacy. Still, that won’t counter contemporary antisemitic hatred and disinformation.
Have Holocaust Survivors from the Former Soviet Union been forgotten?
After the war, the events of the Holocaust were downplayed by the Soviet authorities and survivors were silenced.