Survivors of Auschwitz marked 80 years since the liberation of the death camp. They warned of rising antisemitism in a ceremony Monday at the site where Nazis murdered more than a million people, mostly Jews. CBS News' Leah Mishkin has the latest. ...
in unanimity today expressed heartfelt congratulations to Yad Vashem director Dani Dayan who broke dramatically, and publicly, with decades of what the last Lithuanian Holocaust survivors considered to be tragic betrayal and appeasement, often under presumed political pressure (see ourreportfrom earlier t...
and his efforts to make countries such as Lithuania, Latvia and Croatia admit to their own nation’s very substantial collaboration with the Nazi genocide. As the last survivors die out where does Holocaust education and memory go from here?
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Bulgin imagines the returning visitor being stuck by something familiar but also new, ‘you would end with a sense that ‘this is what was lost’’. I am left wondering if visitors, having listened to testimonies of both survivors and their families, and then viewed the installation could ...
Even though Israel is celebrating its 70th birthday this year, the sentiment is bittersweet. Speaking to survivors last night at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial ceremony, Israeli president Reuven Rivlen said, “You know better than anyone that the state of Israel is no compensation for the Hol...
"As New Yorkers, we are united in our solemn commitment to Holocaust survivors: We will never forget," Hochul said. "These are individuals who have endured unspeakable tragedy but nonetheless have persevered to build lives of meaning and purpose right here in New York. We owe it to them,...
In New York, theMuseum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocausthosted its annual Gathering of Remembrance at Temple Emanu-El of New York City which included remarks from Holocaust survivors as well as members of the third generation of survivors. Among the attendees and participa...
Inspired by Betsie’s example of selfless love and forgiveness amid extreme cruelty and persecution, Corrie established a post-war home for other camp survivors trying to recover from the horrors they had escaped. She went on to travel widely as a missionary, preaching God’s forgiveness and ...
VILNIUS—For the tiny and dwindling group of Holocaust survivors in this part of the world, the indelibly cursed day the genocide began was June 23rd 1941, when hordes of young local “nationalists,” some affiliated with the fascist Lithuanian Activist Front (LAF) — which hadput in writing...