Holocaust
Those in the Israel Defense Forces who educate soldiers and officers about one of the darkest times experienced by the Jewish people talk about their work, which continues in full force during the coronavirus pandemic.
Participants from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Saudi Arabia joined viewers from North America, Europe and Israel in more personal kind of diplomacy.
“The hardest thing is to hear that one of the kids whose tag you’re holding in your hand arrived ... on a train full of children ... sent to die alone,” says Yoram Haimi of the Israel Antiquities Authority.
Having remained one of the only European countries that has not offered restitution to its survivors, Luxembourg pledges to pay reparations and return Jewish property to its rightful owners.
In a tribute initiative, Germany shared with Israel a photographic exhibition from the Willy-Brandt-Haus of portraits of Holocaust survivors around the world.
Chiune Sugihara defied his own government’s orders by issuing handwritten transit visas in 1940 to more than 6,000 Lithuanian Jews, enabling them to escape Nazi-occupied Europe.
Ten sets of tefillin were found in the bunker, dug ahead of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, pointing to prayer quorums “underground and under the Nazis’ noses,” says Holocaust institute director.
A new online exhibit released by Yad Vashem in time for International Holocaust Remembrance Day reveals the story of how group homes across Europe provided children with a place to heal and reconnect with the Jewish people.
Jack Dorsey has been quick to edit “misinformation” when it comes to politics, the coronavirus pandemic or other issues of consequence, but not when it comes to anti-Semitism, says End Jew Hatred.
“This is the digital ghetto,” the conservative pundit said on Fox News.
“It is our collective obligation to safeguard this treasured yet vulnerable population in the spirit of mutual responsibility,” says Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevich.
The brainchild of the local Jewish community, it portrays life before the Holocaust.
