Holocaust
The Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act makes the prevention of genocide and other crimes a matter of national security, and aims to improve and increase the U.S. response to potential and emerging genocides.
In October 1944, thousands of Budapest Jews were murdered along the large river when the Arrow Cross party took power in Hungary.
In 2001, Jakiw Palij confessed to U.S. Department of Justice officials that he was a guard at Trawniki.
Not only does Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies host 7,000 teachers annually in its Jerusalem center, but its programs train thousands more in 50 countries. And it provides a full menu of online teacher resources, including survivor testimonies, photos, rare film footage and lesson plans in 20 languages, destined for classrooms around the globe.
U.K. Muslim website commends Golders Green mosque “for responding to community concerns” • Holocaust Educational Trust calls cancellation of the initiative to highlight the role of Albanian Muslims who saved more than 1,000 Jews in World War II “a great shame.”
The estimated average of 15,000 deaths daily during the “extreme phase of hyper-intense killing” is nearly three times greater than previous approximations.
European sports teams have long used anti-Semitic and Holocaust themes as a way to degrade rival teams.
The comparison was “unconscionable and uncalled for,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Born in Leipzig in 1926, Hilsenrath moved to Romania in 1938 to flee the Nazis, but lived there in a ghetto. His inaugural novel was published in 1954 and describes the horrors of surviving that ghetto.
Loinger was awarded the Resistance Medal, the Military Cross and the Legion d’Honneur, among other awards, for his heroism.
In remembering 94-year-old Simcha Rotem, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said, “Thank you for everything, Kazik. We promise to try every day to be deserving of the description ‘Human.’ ”
It was created by the famed sculptor Nandor Glid and finished in 1997 after his death by his son, Daniel. It was the elder Gild’s last piece.
