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
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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
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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
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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...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 17, 2023
United Hebrew Congregation hosted the 2023 Yom HaShoah Holocaust remembrance ceremony on April 16. It marked the first in-person gathering since the pre-Covid 2019 Yom HaShoah.
During the ceremony, survivors and descendants lit candles in memory of...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published April 16, 2023
April 19, 2023, marks the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. On that day in 1943, on the eve of Passover, 50,000 people were still imprisoned in the area of the Warsaw ghetto—among them 20-year old Mietek Pachter, 21-year...
Chad Gibbs, College of Charleston, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published April 14, 2023
Richard Glazar insisted that no one survived the Holocaust without help. To this Prague-born Jewish survivor, who endured Nazi imprisonment at Treblinka and Theresienstadt, plus years in hiding, it was impossible to persevere without others’ support....
