By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published July 18, 2012
Ask Leo Wolf how many relatives he lost and the 91-year-old Creve Coeur man returns an answer simple enough to sum up what everybody should know about the Holocaust. “Enough,” he said. But thanks to Wolf, whose entire family vanished in the camps...
NEW YORK—Bernhard Storch grew up in a Jewish family in Silesia, near Poland’s border with Germany. Like many Polish Jews, he moved quickly from town to town as the Nazis advanced in 1939, trying to avoid capture. Before long he was caught and sent...
By Michael Stein, JTA
• Published January 31, 2012
PRAGUE -- A Czech Holocaust survivor published a diary of his Nazi concentration camp experiences. Michal Kraus, 81, published the diary, which he wrote shortly after World War II, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 27. The diary will be...
PRAGUE—Kazimierz Smolen, an Auschwitz survivor and postwar director of its memorial site, died in the Polish town of Oswiecim where the camp was located. Smolen died on the 67th anniversary of the Nazi camp's liberation, the Associated Press reported....
The Auschwitz Jewish Center received the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award for its work to educate youth about the Nazi genocide of European Jewry. The presentation on international Holocaust Memorial Day marked the 67th anniversary of the liberation...
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama pledged to combat Holocaust denial in a message marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In his message, Obama said the United States would "pledge to speak truth to those who deny the Holocaust." "As we celebrate...
A U.S.-based group of Holocaust survivors is commending Germany on its determination to fight "deep-rooted" anti-Semitism at home. The American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants in a statement issued Monday said they were deeply shaken...
Menachem Z. Rosensaft, JTA
• Published January 18, 2012
NEW YORK -- It is virtually impossible to imagine anything more reprehensible than the recent spectacle of haredi Orthodox Jewish boys wearing yellow stars of David and simulated striped black-and-white concentration camp uniforms at a demonstration...
As my sisters, and I were growing up, Auschwitz - which each of our parents had survived - was a phantom presence. Auschwitz breathed our air, sat with us at supper, and shared our slumber.In the earliest years, we were witnesses to our parents' deepest...
