admin | June 7, 2024
A selection of short feel-good stories from Slovakia. Every week The Slovak Spectator brings you a selection of three short stories from across Slovakia from which pessimism and negativity are absent. Otto imko, World War II veteran and former underground resistance fighter, recently celebrated his 100th birthday
admin | June 7, 2024
System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian recently scored a new Netflix documentary series about the rise of a white-supremacist, fascist regime with the subtitle Evil on Trial. No, its not about Donald Trumps recent hush money trial, but rather about the rise of Hitlers Nazi party. According to Metal Injection, the documentary series, which has the full title of Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial, was directed by Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost, The Ted Bundy Tapes, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) and based on the 1960 book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by journalist William Shirer.
admin | June 7, 2024
The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) announced on Wednesday the outcomes of their negotiations with the German Federal Ministry of Finance on behalf of Holocaust survivors globally. The results include a 105 million ($114 million) increase in funding for social welfare services, involving acute assistance for survivors for each of the next two years. This brings the total budget for social welfare services to 893.9 million ($972.5 million), nearly $2 billion in funding from 2025 through 2026
admin | May 21, 2024
I am a retired social worker. I spent most of my career working with Holocaust survivors at a Jewish social service agency.
admin | May 21, 2024
A memorial to commemorate those who rescued Jews in France during the Holocaust was defaced with red hands in an act of vandalism described as unspeakable by the Paris mayor. The Wall of the Righteous was vandalized overnight between Monday and Tuesday, along with around 10 other locations in the Marais, Paris's historically Jewish neighbourhood.
admin | May 21, 2024
A University of Delaware undergraduate student has been charged with a hate crime after witnesses reported her for vandalizing a Holocaust memorial on the universitys campus last Wednesday. The Delaware Department of Justice has charged Jenna Kandeel, 23, with a hate crime, criminal mischief, and disorderly conduct all misdemeanors for damaging several flags, which were put up by the University of Delaware Hillel for Holocaust Remembrance Week.
admin | May 21, 2024
After months of tumult on the campus of Harvard University following the Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel and the university's reaction, a holocaust survivor visited a Jewish organization at the prestigious school on Thursday. Karmela Waldman visited Harvard Chabad for a fireside chat comparing the history of the Holocaust to present-day antisemitism and recent incidents
admin | May 21, 2024
Assemblywoman AmyPaulin, HHREC Executive Director Millie Jasper, and New Rochelle residents and Holocaust survivorsMr. and Mrs. Jerry and Ellen Kaidanow Assemblywoman AmyPaulinpartnered with Assembly Members Chris Burdick, Dana Levenberg, Steve Otis, Gary Pretlow, Nader Sayegh, and MaryJane Shimsky to successfully secure$100,000from New York State for theHolocaust & Human Rights Education Center (HHREC)
admin | May 21, 2024
SAN FRANCISCO -- Communities across the U.S. are remembering the atrocities of one of the worst acts of genocide in modern history for Holocaust Remembrance Day. But for the Jewish Family and Children's Services Holocaust Center in San Francisco, teaching the history of those events is what they do everyday
admin | May 11, 2024
When you think about the Holocaust, as we all do in a 21st century shaped by the cataclysms of the 20th, what images appear in your minds eye? I see Nazis marching into city squares.
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