Posts Tagged: yad vashem
Historic First: US Soldier Receives ‘Righteous Among Nations’ Honor From Yad Vashem
JNS.org - Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust museum on Tuesday announced the first-ever “Righteous Among the Nations” honor for a US soldier. The late Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds...
If You Only Have 24 Hours in Jerusalem
JNS.org - A city with as much history and culture as Jerusalem compels visitors to spend quite a bit of time exploring the many sites and...
World Must Understand That Anti-Semitism is a Universal Problem, Israeli Envoy Tells The Algemeiner (INTERVIEW)
"Anti-Semitism is not a Jewish problem. It concerns Jews, but it's a global and universal problem." So says Ambassador Gideon Behar, the Israeli diplomat who...
Honoring Liberators and Mahalniks Before It’s Too Late
It is no secret that the eyewitnesses to the Nazi death camps, the liberators from the U.S. and Allied Armies, are themselves quickly dying off. They...
With Light, Moshe Safdie Builds a Global Architectural Legacy
JNS.org - LOS ANGELES—"Global Citizen: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie," on display at Los Angeles's Skirball Cultural Center through March 2, lets the light...
Polish Righteous Among the Nations Honored at Yad Vashem
JERUSALEM - Yad Vashem held an event on January 16 to posthumously honor a Polish woman, Maria Zurawska, as Righteous Among the Nations. The medal...
Doctor Becomes First Arab Gentile to Receive Yad Vashem Honor
JNS.org - The Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum has named Dr. Mohamed Helmy, an Egyptian physician who lived in Berlin during WWII, as "Righteous Among...
Portuguese Diplomat Finally Celebrated for Saving Jews During WW II
When Aristides de Sousa Mendes died in 1954 he was broke and shamed, this despite his heroic activities during the Second World War to save...
On 75th Anniversary, New Book Recounts a Father-Son Kindertransport Correspondence
A series of events are being hosted by, among others, former British Secretary of State David Milliband and the Prince of Wales, over the next...
New Study Concludes that ‘Italian Schindler’ Actually Helped Murder Jews During the Holocaust
A man considered the Italian Schindler may not have been so saintly, officials at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum have learned, casting doubt on...
England Soccer Coach Roy Hodgson Finds Perspective After Yad Vashem Visit
Reporters inquiring as to the state of English soccer found themselves on the receiving end of a few disarmingly self-reflective responses from national soccer team...
German Book Tells Stories of Child Holocaust Refugees
Daily Mail - They were the children of the damned - Jews who had no place in the New World Order of Adolf Hitler and...
Polish Couple Posthumously Named ‘Righteous Among the Nations’
Jerusalem Post - Ludwika and Zygmunt Szostak, an elderly Polish couple who hid and protected a Jewish mother and her young daughter from the...
Exhibit in England to Honor Muslims Who Saved Jews During WWII
A new exhibition in England celebrating Muslims who saved Jews during the Holocaust is set to open at the Board of Deputies of British Jews...
