On the 75th Anniversary of Kristallnacht, a Resurgence of Polish “Phantom Limb” Jewry
75 Years ago across Nazi occupied Germany and Austria, Nazi paramilitary forces and non-Jewish civilians carried out a pogrom that would signal the beginning of the end of Jewish life under German rule across Europe.
Report: US Recruited 1,000 Nazis as Cold War Spies
Morality took a back seat to perceived security concerns during the Cold War as US intelligence agencies employed at least 1,000 Nazis as spies, a new book published this week says.
The Last Simhat Torah in the Warsaw Ghetto
Any illusions that some may have once had about the intentions of the Germans, or even their presumed humanity, had been upended by their tormentors’ brutishness and savagery.
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.