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Remembering Mel Mermelstein, who took on Holocaust deniers and crushed them

Remembering Mel Mermelstein, who took on Holocaust deniers and crushed them

Mark I. Pinsky, The ForwardPublished February 6, 2022

This story was originally published on by the Forward. Sign up here to get the latest stories from the Forward delivered to you each morning. Auschwitz survivor Mel Mermelstein, who died Jan. 28, at 95, was a modest, unprepossessing man. Whatever...

Jewish group urges pulling of book naming Jewish suspect who betrayed Anne Frank

Published February 3, 2022

(JNS) The European Jewish Congress is asking the U.S-based publishing house HarperCollins to pull a book they said contains an “incendiary claim” that a Jewish notary told the Nazis where Anne Frank and her family were hiding during the Holocaust. “In...

The Jewish roots of Groundhog Punxsutawney Phil

The Jewish roots of Groundhog Punxsutawney Phil

Stewart Ain, The ForwardPublished February 1, 2022

This story was originally published on Jan. 28, 2022 by the Forward. Sign up here to get the latest stories from the Forward delivered to you each morning. In anticipation of Thursday’s observance of Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, Pa., it should...

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Academy Museum of Motion Pictures course corrects on Jewish founders

Sharon Rosen Leib, The ForwardPublished January 30, 2022

This story was originally published on January 28 by the Forward. Sign up here to get the latest stories from the Forward delivered to you each morning. The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures’ recent decision to create a permanent exhibition...

A Tennessee school board’s ban of ‘Maus’ speaks to a much larger problem

A Tennessee school board’s ban of ‘Maus’ speaks to a much larger problem

Jordana Horn, KvellerPublished January 28, 2022

Two weeks ago, a school board met in Tennessee and unanimously decided that Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer-winning graphic novel “Maus” should be banned from the eighth grade curriculum due to “profanity” and “nudity.” Spiegelman, a cartoonist,...

Magnificent Chagall windows mark 60 years in Jerusalem

Magnificent Chagall windows mark 60 years in Jerusalem

Lisa Klug, Israel21cPublished January 27, 2022
Each of the 12 stained-glass panels that Chagall donated to Hadassah Medical Center is filled with a dance of intricate images and stunning colors.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon meets with the father of abducted soldier Benny Avraham during a military memorial service in September 2001. In January 2004, Sharon approved an exchange that brought Avraham’s body, along with those of two other soldiers captured and killed by Hezbollah, back to Israel. Photo: Moshe Milner, Israeli Government Press Office

This week in Israeli history: Jan. 27 – Feb. 2

CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATIONPublished January 27, 2022

Jan. 27, 2006 — First U.N. Holocaust Remembrance Day The first U.N.-recognized International Holocaust Remembrance Day is held on the 61st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The president of the U.N. General Assembly, Jan Eliasson, says...

Investigation: Some 1,500 statues and streets honor Nazis around the world — including in Germany and the U.S.

Investigation: Some 1,500 statues and streets honor Nazis around the world — including in Germany and the U.S.

Lev Golinkin, The ForwardPublished January 27, 2022

This story was originally published on January 27, by The Forward. Sign up here to get the latest stories from The Forward delivered to you each morning. Germany, long seen as an international model for appropriately reckoning with its Holocaust...

What is International Holocaust Remembrance Day?

Published January 27, 2022

In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this day, nations around the world honor the six million Jewish victims of the...

Illinois Holocaust Museum's new virtual-reality experience keeps survivors ‘alive,’ builds empathy

Illinois Holocaust Museum’s new virtual-reality experience keeps survivors ‘alive,’ builds empathy

Deborah FineblumPublished January 26, 2022
Organizers at the Illinois Holocaust Museum chose International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27 for the official rollout of their new cutting-edge virtual-reality Holocaust experience, titled “The Journey Back.”
A detailed view of the United Nations Holocaust Memorial Ceremony ""75 years after Auschwitz - Holocaust Education and Remembrance for Global Justice"" on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the ending of the Second World War, and the ending of the Holocaust.

The Holocaust Remembrance Day rule that proves everyone loves dead Jews

Jonathan S. TobinPublished January 26, 2022
The growing volume of lip service paid by the world to the memory of the Six Million is neatly matched by the complacence about or support for contemporary Jew-hatred.
St. Louis' Holocaust museum asking for your photos, videos for new film

St. Louis’ Holocaust museum asking for your photos, videos for new film

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished January 25, 2022

As we move closer to the re-opening of the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum this summer, work continues on the museum's permanent exhibit. The permanent exhibit The new permanent exhibit at the museum will educate visitors on the history of...

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