Yad Vashem’s Children Memorial
It’s hard to imagine the magnitude of the Holocaust. The Children’s Memorial at Yad Vashem helps make it real. The tour guide ends with optimism, explaining that “for the first time, the population of Jews in Israel [8 million], is greater than the number of those who perished in the Holocaust.” Click here to save […]
“Holocaust Victims” Challenge Elie Wiesel
On August 23, 2014 a paid ad/open letter appeared in the New York Times taking Elie Wiesel to task for playing the “Holocaust trump” card and for trying to “justify the unjustifiable.
Tour of Remembrance: Auschwitz, Krakow
Day 3 Today we descended to ‘the depths’ and called upon God from the hell on earth known as Auschwitz. Before entering the notorious Concentration Camp, our small group of Jews and Christians prayed together the words of Psalm 121 and then lined up arm-in-arm under the infamous and cruel sign “Arbet Macht Frei – […]
Tour of Remembrance: Lublin, Majdenek and Tarnow
We stayed the night at not only a beautiful hotel, but a site of great significance in the history of Polish Jewry: the famous Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin.
Tour of Remembrance: Warsaw
Yesterday, I arrived in Warsaw, Poland for the “Tour of Remembrance” sponsored by Israel365.
Knesset OKs NIS 1 Billion Aid Plan for Holocaust Survivors
The Israeli Knesset received praise for the swift passing last week of a bill to increase spending on Holocaust survivors.
D-Day and the Bombing of Auschwitz
Seventy years ago this week, the Allies staged the D-Day invasion, landing some 24,000 troops on the beaches along France’s Normandy Coast in one of the major turning points of World War II.
IsraelGives Back to Those in Need in the Holy Land
With Ben’s passing not so long ago, Esther decided it was time to make good on their pact. She wanted to donate over 1 million NIS to a worthy cause in Israel, but was unsure of how to proceed in America in order to be able to do so.
First Romanian Public Holocaust Memorial Center Opens in Elie Wiesel’s Childhood Home
Romania’s first Holocaust education center has opened on Sunday in the childhood home of Nobel Laureate, human rights activist, and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.
The Under-the-Radar Story of Far East Jewry
It was a long trek: 6,000 miles by boat from Central Europe to the Far East. But the towns of East Asia opened their gates for the waves of Jewish emigrants who had to find shelter from the tragic problems they faced first in Russia, and later in Central Europe.