Jewish organization hopes to bring a Holocaust educational center to Phoenix – The Arizona Republic
admin | August 18, 2021
As Holocaust survivors grow older, time is of the essence in preserving their stories.
Pokin Around: What kind of world is it where vaccines and masks are likened to Holocaust? – News-Leader
admin | August 18, 2021
I wonder what Elie Wiesel would have thought about Monday night's City Council meeting? About 15 people wore yellow starsto liken the oppression they say they feel as they resist COVID-19 vaccination and masking to the oppression that Jews felt during the Holocaust.
Exhibition to show 50 contemporary portraits of Holocaust survivors – The Guardian
admin | August 3, 2021
When Kitty Hart-Moxon, 97, was recently asked to choose one object that symbolised the horrors she survived at the hands of the Nazis in Auschwitz, Belsen, and on death marches, she had no doubts. A glass container encasing the preserved tattooed numbers she had cut out of her own arm and also that of her mother, Rosa Lola, which she keeps in a cupboard at her home in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, is a shocking, tangible reminder.
Story of how one Virginia woman survived the Holocaust – ABC Action News
admin | August 3, 2021
HENRICO, Va. -- 72 years ago, Halina Zimms wish came true. I was born in Poland.
Roma Holocaust Memorial Day: Systematic marginalisation of Roma needs to be tackled, starting at the local level – Council of Europe
admin | August 3, 2021
More than seven decades after the Nazi extermination of thousands of Roma, 2 August needs to be a reminder that discrimination against Roma and Travellers is far from over and anti-Gypsyism must be fought at all levels, said John Warmisham, Congress Rapporteur on Roma, on the annual Roma Holocaust Memorial Day, on 2 August 2021. Local and regional governments, in coordination with other levels, need to acknowledge the grim realities of Roma and Travellers across the continent and tackle their systematic marginalisation.
The duchess and the Holocaust survivor – Telegraph.co.uk
admin | August 3, 2021
Steven Frank holds the plain aluminium cooking pot with reverence, undoing the side clips that fasten the lid. Battered, utilitarian, unremarkable, you wouldnt look at it twice in a junk shop. Yet its story and its survival are matters of wonder.
After Another COVID Spike, Israel Launches Third Vaccine Dose – Voice of America
admin | August 3, 2021
JERUSALEM - Israel has become the first country to distribute a third dose of COVID vaccine, offering the extra jab to anyone over 60. Israeli health experts say the effectiveness of the current vaccine declines with time and the third shot will serve as a booster. The move comes as virus rates in Israel are on the increase.
US ramps up pressure on Poland over Holocaust restitution – Associated Press
admin | August 1, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) The United States is ramping up pressure on Poland in hopes of stopping legislation that would prevent families from receiving restitution for property seized during the Holocaust and communist era. The U.S. said Wednesday that Poland is the only country in Europe to have regressed over the past year in meeting commitments to return seized property or provide compensation for Holocaust victims and their families.
She survived the Holocaust by running, hiding and changing her identity – wtvr.com
admin | August 1, 2021
HENRICO, Va. -- 72 years ago Halina Zimms wish came true. I was born in Poland
Anger as Poland plans law that will stop Jews reclaiming wartime homes – The Guardian
admin | August 1, 2021
A few years ago, Shoshana Greenberg stood outside a building in Lodz, Poland, once owned by her family, with an old photograph in her hands and tears running down her face. Greenberg, now 74 and living in Tel Aviv, was on a quest to reclaim property lost during the Holocaust.
