Holocaust
“This is only one part of the story,” said Debra Brunner. “This memorial will honor a community that had lived and died, and who never saw the atrocities that took place in 1941-44.”
Perhaps the two most moving items in the collection are a pair of notes found in Senesh’s dress following her execution in 1944: the last poem she wrote and a personal letter to her mother.
The Deputy Commander of the Paratroopers Brigade, Col. (Res.) Oran Bersano, tells about the deeply moving experience of taking part in a commemorative paratrooper expedition in Slovenia.
The families of the 11 killed have been asking the International Olympic Committee for this gesture of respect for decades, but until now have been turned down.
Sports served as a bridge between the Jewish and non-Jewish worlds.
Directed by Israeli Ari Folman of “Waltz With Bashir” fame, it aims to draw a link between the Holocaust, discrimination and anti-Semitism.
Since opening in April, the museum has welcomed 22,000 visitors, 70 percent of them young, and the guestbooks testify to the great popular support for Israel in Portugal, according to the museum.
About one-third of survivors in the United States live in poverty, at risk for depression, social isolation and inadequate medical care.
Esther Bejarano said that music helped keep her alive during her time at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The Orăștie synagogue, which is more than a century old, was restored in the early 2000s and has housed several cultural events in recent years.
Eva Schloss received papers that granted her Austrian citizenship on June 18 at a ceremony at the Austrian Embassy in London.
The Polish ambassador was summoned by the Foreign Ministry over the draft legislation • Yair Lapid: “We will not allow any parliament to pass laws the purpose of which is to deny the Holocaust.”
