Posts Tagged: Holocaust Museum
Dem House Leader Hakeem Jeffries Urges Mamdani to ‘Aggressively Address’ Antisemitism in NYC if Elected Mayor
US House Democratic leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (NY) urged Democratic nominee for mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani to “aggressively address the rise in antisemitism”...
New Program Offers NYC 8th Graders Free School Trips to Holocaust Museum to Learn About Antisemitism
All eight graders from public and charter schools in New York City will be offered free field trips to visit the Museum of Jewish Heritage...
Pro-Hamas Activists Protest Outside Opening of Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam Attended by Israeli President
Israeli President Isaac Herzog, attending an opening of a Holocaust museum in Amsterdam on Sunday, called for prayers for peace and the immediate release of...
Holocaust Memorials Are Monuments Against Civilization’s Enemies
The American Jewish community is a leader in Holocaust commemoration. Why? To teach the lesson -- “Never Again” -- of course. Yet skeptics still scoff: why...
The US Holocaust Museum Vs. Elie Wiesel
A staff historian at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum is suggesting, incredibly, that the Roosevelt administration was right to refuse to bomb Auschwitz. The late...
Israeli PM Netanyahu Visits Future Site of New Holocaust Museum in Greece
JNS.org - Israeli Prime Minister Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, attended a ceremony on Thursday unveiling the construction of a new Holocaust museum...
Israel’s Deputy FM Adds Western Wall to Official State Visit Requirements
JNS.org - Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely has instructed Israel’s Foreign Ministry to require that foreign dignitaries coming to the country include a visit to...
Holocaust Victims’ Shoes Stolen From Majdanek Death Camp Museum
JNS.org - Eight shoes that belonged to Holocaust victims of the Poland-based Nazi death camp Majdanek, which had been on display in the museum at the camp's former site, have...
From Major Speakers to Exhibitors, Federation GA in Israel a ‘Global Jewish Shuk’
JNS.org - JERUSALEM—Several halls of Jerusalem's International Congress Center were filled with booths representing the best of Israeli innovations as the Jewish Federations...
Daughter of Auschwitz Kommandant, Modeled for Balenciaga, Then Worked at Jewish Owned Shop for 35 Years
One of the daughter's of Auschwitz Kommandant Rudolf Höss once capitalized on her beauty to walk the runway as a model for dress maker Balenciaga,...
New Holocaust Museum Honors Couple that Hid Jews in Latvia
JNS.org - Israeli President Shimon Peres attended a ceremony marking the opening of a museum honoring a couple that saved 50 Jews during the...
Crying Over Dead Jews: Lithuania’s Jewless Jewish Institutions
Lithuania's Jewish community isn't immune from the broader issues facing Jewish existence in Eastern Europe and the same problems of Jewish identity that...
A Call to Remember From the Depths of Our Souls
Yom HaShoah, the day set aside in the Jewish calendar for Holocaust remembrance. During the nightmare years of the Shoah one moment stands out for what...
Politicizing the Holocaust in Modern Israeli Politics
The somber rituals of Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel are traditionally apolitical. When the nation's notables gather at Yad va-Shem and the first...
