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2017 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Events
Holocaust Remembrance Day The International Holocaust Remembrance Day is annually observed on the 27th of January. It’s a solemn commemoration of the Holocaust which is considered…
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Charm From Nazi Death Camp Believed to be Linked to Anne Frank
Experts are now on the lookout for the families of the two girls to uncover more information; pendant is one of only two pendants in the…
Issues
Google Updates Algorithm to Eliminate Holocaust Denial and Neo-Nazi Hate Sites
White supremacist website that claims the Holocaust is a hoax has caused the search engine giant to come under fire. Google recently made changes to its…
Judaism
Marion Pritchard, Woman Who Saved 150 Jews During the Holocaust, Dies at 96
Marion Pritchard risked her own life to rescue Jews from the Nazis. Marion Pritchard died on December 11 from cerebral arteriosclerosis. She was 96. A heroic…
Judaism
Rent a Jew, Hopes to Dispel Myths About Jews
New ‘Rent a Jew’ program hopes to bring Germans and Jews together. A Munich-headquartered educational organization, European Janucz Korczak Academy, wants to oppose the rising wave…
Ethics
UK Becomes First Country to Institute Holocaust Group’s Definition of Anti-Semitism
The UK is the first to institute the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s anti-Semitism definition. The United Kingdom will be the first country to accept the anti-Semitic…
Christianity
Holocaust Museum Responds to White Nationalist Conference Hate Speech
Museum warns that the Holocaust began with words, not with killings. For members of the National Policy Institute (NPI), it was an event celebrating the restoration…
Judaism
Yaffa Eliach, Historian Who Captured Faces of the Holocaust, Dies at 79
Professor, historian, and scholar Yaffa Eliach will be most remembered for trying to showcase pictures of the victims of the Holocaust before it happened. Holocaust historian…
Judaism
A Surge of British Jews Affected by Holocaust are Trying to Move to Germany
Descendants of Jews who suffered the Holocaust are seeking German citizenship after Brexit. British Jews, descendants of Jews who fled Germany during the Nazi Era, are…
Issues
Philippines’ President Apologizes For Insensitive Comments About Hitler and Holocaust
Philippines’ President under fire for comparing his attack on drug abusers to Hitler’s massacre of Jews. Rodrigo Duterte, president of Philippines, is under critic’s fire. This…
Christianity
Archbishop Welby Blames Church of Spreading Anti-Semitism in the UK
Archbishop Justin Welby holds the Church responsible for anti-semitism being “entrenched” in UK Culture. The problem of rising anti-Semitism has now been recognized in the UK.…
Judaism
World’s Oldest Man Finally Set to Celebrate Bar Mitzvah Ceremony
Holocaust survivor will finally celebrate his bar mitzvah after missing the opportunity in 1916. Yisrael Kristal had to wait for exactly 100 years for his bar…