Holocaust
A years-long effort identified and digitized the names of 9,100 Jews buried in Krakow’s historic Plaszów cemetery before it was destroyed by the Nazis.
The accord will grant €5M annual support from Berlin to the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem.
The American actor, writer and director said he pursued citizenship to reconnect with his family’s heritage and to spend more of his career working in Central Europe.
A change in Austrian law could allow survivors who remained in the country after World War II while searching for relatives or awaiting visas to receive long-denied benefits.
The Israeli president and his wife flew to Iași, where Fascists murdered 13,000 Jews in 1941.
Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal has asked New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to issue a posthumous pardon for Adams, a Polish-Jewish immigrant who was convicted and deported back to Europe, where she was later murdered by the Nazis.
Marc Bloch, who was also a veteran and resistance fighter whom the Nazis tortured and killed in 1944, is now interred alongside Voltaire, Alexandre Dumas, Émile Zola and other national French heroes.
The Israeli president is scheduled to deliver an address before the parliament in Bucharest.
Yishay Ishi Ron’s book, “The Girl Who Rode the White Lion,” is based on a true story of a family that hid Jews in a circus during the Holocaust.
The delegation stood in silence beneath the Anne Frank Tree, planted in the garden at United Nation’s Headquarters in New York in 2019.
The mayor of Arnhem invited the rapper without consultation, prompting management to say he was not welcome.
They went through the worst of humanity, the most evil power that can exist,” the New York City Council speaker told JNS, of survivors. “We need to retell those stories because we can honestly never forget.”
