(JTA) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of committing “Holocausts” at a press conference after meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin, and Scholz’s muted initial response is spurring criticism.
Abbas...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published August 16, 2022
"Memory is what shapes us. Memory is what teaches us. We must understand that’s where our redemption is," said Holocaust survivor Estelle Laughlin.
Preserving memories of Holocaust survivors, liberators and others is the everyday function at the...
(JTA) – Former President Donald Trump wanted his military advisors to be more like “the German generals in World War II,” according to a new book about the Trump presidency that quotes from his administration’s top personnel.
Trump reportedly...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF EMERITUS
• Published June 22, 2022
Every Holocaust survivor story is both a miracle and a curse. The miracle for any Jew in Nazi-occupied Europe between 1939 and 1945 is the fact that they managed to escape the merciless, ruthless and efficient Germans at all. The curse is survivors’...
The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum will reopen on Nov. 2.
The new 36,000 square foot structure will be four times larger than the previous facility, which was located on the lower level of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis building. It...
By Mira Fox, The Forward
• Published June 10, 2022
When you think of numbers tattooed on wrists, you probably think of Auschwitz and Holocaust survivors with numbers inked on their forearms. But for some fans of “Stranger Things,” Netflix’s cult favorite horror show, they think of Hawkins, Indiana,...
One day in late October 1941, Pope Pius XII received chilling news. A bishop in Slovakia wrote to say that the country’s Jews “are simply being shot … systematically murdered, without distinction of sex or age.”
We can get a sense of how Pius...
Jordan Palmer and Harley Hammerman
• Published June 5, 2022
Erich Dahl, Age 102, of Creve Coeur, Missouri was born on February 29, 1920 in Geilenkerchen, Germany and passed away on June 1, 2022.
Growing up in Germany
Dahl and his two sisters lived in Germany near the Belgium border. Their father was a cattle...
On May 7, 2022, Holocaust survivor Gerda Cole attended her 98th birthday party. The recreation room at Revera Kennedy Lodge Long Term Care Home in Toronto, where Gerda lives, was decorated in blue — her favorite color — and she wore a crown and...
Today, the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum announced a $1 million dollar pledge from the Tilles Foundation to support the Museum’s new Impact Lab. The Tilles Foundation is a private foundation “dedicated to finding the most effective...
Bill Motchan, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published May 11, 2022
As a boy growing up in Mainz, Germany, Luigi Toscano was fascinated by World War II. But he was frustrated by a lack of detail about a dark period in the country’s history: the Holocaust. His history teacher offered little information, and his textbook...
(JTA) – Jewish and antiracism groups in Mexico are raising alarm after a couple married in a Nazi-themed wedding there last week.
The wedding of the couple, who have been identified only by their first names, Fernando and Josefina, took place in...
