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The Holocaust

Adolf Eichmann's audio confessions to the orchestration of the Final Solution can be heard for the first time in "The Devil's Confession."(Courtesy of Amazon Prime Video)

Docuseries with never-before-heard confessions from Adolf Eichmann comes to Amazon Prime Video

Jackie Hajdenberg, JTAPublished February 1, 2023

(JTA) — Americans subscribed to Amazon Prime Video can now listen to never-before-heard recordings of Adolf Eichmann confessing to his crimes, in his own voice. “The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes” is a three-part documentary series...

Doug Emhoff will visit Oskar Schindler’s factory during Poland and Germany visit

Gabe Friedman, JTAPublished January 26, 2023

(JTA) — Doug Emhoff’s itinerary on an upcoming trip to Poland and Germany includes a stop at the factory where Oskar Schindler saved over 1,000 Jews, a Shabbat dinner with local Jewish leaders and a visit to a United Nations center housing refugees...

Jewish twins were kept alive to be used in Dr. Josef Mengele's medical experiments. These children from Auschwitz were liberated by the Red Army in January 1945. Credit: USHMM/Belarusian State Archive of Documentary Film and Photography.

Survey: Half of Americans don’t know how many Jews died in the Holocaust

Published January 24, 2023

(JNS) Only 53% of Americans over the age of 18 answered correctly that approximately six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, according to an American Jewish Committee public opinion survey released ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day...

The Book of Names, at U.N. Headquarters in New York. Credit: Yad Vashem.

Yad Vashem to unveil ‘The Book of Names’ at the United Nations

By Mike Wagenheim, JNSPublished January 23, 2023

(JNS) In recognition of this year’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yad Vashem is set to unveil on Thursday an installation at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. It’s a book filled with the names of 4.8 million murder victims....

"Pay as you wish" weekend offers great opportunity to see new Holocaust Museum

“Pay as you wish” weekend offers great opportunity to see new Holocaust Museum

Published January 23, 2023

Each year on January 27, the world commemorates International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the anniversary of the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by Soviet soldiers. This year, the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum is planning a weekend-long...

Adolf Eichmann’s trial was missing a crucial piece of evidence: a tape of his confession. Photo by Wikimedia Commons

In ‘The Devil’s Confession,’ Adolf Eichmann hangs himself with his own words

By PJ Grisar, The ForwardPublished January 19, 2023

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. When you call your film The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes, you’re announcing a judgment less measured...

From Germany to Shanghai, how Rudolf Oppenheim found his way to St. Louis

From Germany to Shanghai, how Rudolf Oppenheim found his way to St. Louis

St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum, Special To The Jewish LightPublished January 10, 2023

Today, we tell the remarkable story of Rudolf Oppenheim a St. Louisan whose family in 1938, in the aftermath of Kristallnacht and his father’s release from a concentration camp, fled Germany. Because there were few countries that permitted Jews...

How strangers gave a Holocaust survivor a Jewish funeral

How strangers gave a Holocaust survivor a Jewish funeral

By Baila Brackman, Chabad.org/newsPublished January 5, 2023

Time is vitally important, especially when it comes to helping someone in a critical situation. Living on the rough-and-tumble South Side of Chicago, it had been decades since Jakob had been in contact with organized Jewish community life, which is...

St. Louis Holocaust Museum certified sensory inclusive 

St. Louis Holocaust Museum certified sensory inclusive 

Published December 8, 2022

KultureCity has partnered with the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum to make the Museum and all of the programs and events that the venue hosts to be sensory inclusive. This new initiative will promote an accommodating and positive experience...

Can you help us identify the Jews depicted in these Holocaust-era portraits drawn by a St. Louis artist?

Can you help us identify the Jews depicted in these Holocaust-era portraits drawn by a St. Louis artist?

Miriam Friedman Morris, Special To The Jewish LightPublished December 1, 2022

This story is being published in partnership with the National Library of Israel. All photos courtesy of Yad Vashem Art Museum, Beit Theresienstadt, and the  Jewish Museum in Prague. I was born in Israel in 1950, and named after my father’s first...

This Portuguese diplomat saved more Jews than Schindler

BY CALEB GUEDES-REED, JTAPublished November 30, 2022

(JTA) — A plaza in Jerusalem’s Kiryat Hayovel neighborhood has been named after Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese diplomat who saved thousands of lives during the Holocaust but spent the rest of his life as a social pariah. “This small...

A Black writer explores how U.S. and Germany differ in remembering their pasts

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTAPublished November 29, 2022

(JTA) — For his 2021 book “How the Word Is Passed,” winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, poet and journalist Clint Smith explored the landscape of American memory — specifically how the history of slavery is explained,...

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