(JTA) – Conditions didn’t seem favorable in early May as Stuart Eizenstat entered annual negotiations with the German government over reparations for the estimated 240,000 remaining Holocaust survivors around the world.
Eizenstat had served as...
(JTA) – Among the many books that conservative parents have recently asked their children’s schools to remove is a lushly illustrated version of the most famous Holocaust diary.
The graphic adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary, published in English...
(JTA) — Toronto is home to one of the world’s largest Jewish communities, nearly half of the 335,000 Jews in Canada. But until last week, the city did not have a dedicated Holocaust museum.
The Toronto Holocaust Museum opened its doors on Friday,...
Today is the 94th birthday of Anne Frank, as well as the anniversary of the first post in her diary in which she famously wrote, “I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will...
From “Poker Face” to “The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning,” Peacock TV has been bringing us a lot of excellent TV, and in 2024, it is taking on a newly popular TV trend: the limited Holocaust series.
Next year, along with Sky TV, Peacock...
By Arno Rosenfeld, The Forward
• Published May 15, 2023
A New York City auction house plans to sell a number of Holocaust-related items Saturday. A can of Zyklon B, the poison gas used to kills Jews and other concentration camp inmates, is among the items listed for sale. The lot also includes a patch...
A recent New York Times feature about a troubled World War II veteran has inadvertently shed fresh light on the Roosevelt administration’s refusal to bomb the railways leading to Auschwitz. The story also implicitly undermines one of the major themes...
Miriam Friedman Morris, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published April 26, 2023
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on “The Librarians”, the official online publication of the National Library of Israel. Check it out for more stories on Jewish, Israeli, and Middle Eastern history, heritage and culture. It is reprinted...
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Holocaust deniers use a range of myths to “prove” the validity of their claims. They share these lies in the texts of pseudo-academic journals, antisemitic...
The Anti-Defamation League, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published April 24, 2023
This content first appeared on ADL.org and is republished here with permission.
Trope: Details of the Holocaust Have Been Exaggerated
Some so-called Holocaust “revisionists” claim they don’t deny the Holocaust happened,...
The Anti-Defamation League, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published April 23, 2023
This content first appeared on ADL.org and is republished here with permission.
The movement to deny that the Nazis murdered approximately six million Jews during World War II — the historical event known as the Holocaust — emerged...
Dr. Rafael Medoff, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published April 18, 2023
The name “Bermuda” conjures up a variety of images. Tourists think of it as a tropical vacation site. Scientists ponder the disappearance of ships in the Bermuda Triangle. But for those concerned with the history of the Holocaust, Bermuda is remembered...
