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Police are trying to determine the cause—whether it was vandalism or a weather-related incident.
“This trip showed us the harsh reality unfiltered,” said 16-year-old Jesse Goldberg of Chicago.
The city saw a series of far-right antisemitic demonstrations in July.
The 44th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy in Philadelphia also offered opportunities that looked to the future.
Patrick Delany, of Foxtel, said he is “very sorry for my actions and sincerely apologize to people who have been hurt or offended, especially members of the Jewish community.”
Irmgard Furchner, 99, was given a two-year suspended sentence in 2022 for her role as a secretary to the commander of the Stutthof concentration camp.
“There was an attempt to disrupt our community by an outside hate group,” said Rob Rue, the mayor of Springfield.
The Germans scuttled the vessel in 1944 to prevent capture by the Red Army.
Mary Ellen Richichi told JNS that her course on Holocaust history is her school’s second-most popular elective after gym.
The city’s mayor said he doesn’t want the event disturbed by pro-Hamas protests.
Holocaust survivor and Warsaw Uprising fighter Stanislaw (Shlomo) Aronson is back in Poland for the 80th anniversary commemoration of the revolt.
Mark Schonwetter, who founded the foundation with his daughters, survived the Holocaust with his mother and sister by hiding in the Polish countryside during World War II.