JERUSALEM -- Two Israeli journalists apologized to the Claims Conference over a film they made about the organization as part of the settlement of a libel lawsuit. Orly Vilnai and Guy Meroz, and their Shamayim Productions Ltd. company, issued the written...
An annual march of remembrance was held to mark the 69th anniversary of the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto. The march retraces the steps of one that took place on March 13 and 14, 1944, when some 6,000 Jews living in the Krakow ghetto in the Podgorze...
NEW YORK -- Michael Rosenzweig still step down this summer as president and CEO of the National Museum of Jewish History. Rosenzweig, who has led the Philadelphia museum since April 2009, will be succeeded by Ivy Barsky, according to a news release....
WASHINGTON -- A group of Palestinian activists, including some who reject the notion of Jewish statehood, have disavowed associating with Gilad Atzmon, an Israeli musician who is seen as anti-Semitic. "We reaffirm that there is no room in this historic...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published March 14, 2012
The best stories are often true ones, and such is the case with “In Darkness,” from Polish director Agnieszka Holland. The film tells the story of an unexpected partnership between Polish-Jewish families hiding in sewers under a Nazi-occupied town...
A group of Holocaust-themed tapestries, one painting and one seriograph print, by the late St. Louisan Muriel Nezhnie, is currently on exhibit at the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center in the Jewish Federation Kopolow building, 12 Millstone...
SAN FRANCISCO -- When I learned of the murder of dozens of members of my family in the Holocaust and then met my Israeli relatives whose Auschwitz numbers could hardly be missed on their arms, I decided to dedicate my life to challenging war, the denial...
BERLIN -- Madame Tussauds in Berlin has unveiled a wax figure of young diarist Anne Frank, depicted sitting at her desk, pen in hand, smiling dreamily. Frank died at age 15 at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp about a month before the camp's liberation...
Poland is issuing commemorative coins this month to honor three Catholic-Polish families who were killed by the Nazis for having rescued Jews during the Holocaust. The two coins, in denominations of two zlotys, worth about 65 cents, and 20 zlotys, worth...
The Mormon Church is restricting access to its genealogical records relating to Holocaust victims in a move to protect their names for posthumous baptisms. "The church is committed to preventing the misguided practice of submitting the names of Holocaust...
PRAGUE -- A Hungarian government official rejected charges of anti-Semitism in the asylum case of Hungarian-Jewish writer Akos Kertesz. Following Kertesz's political asylum request last week to Canada, the head of the ruling Fidesz-Christian Democrat...
Tina Strobos, a medical student in Amsterdam during World War II who helped save more than 100 Jews from the Nazis, has died. Strobos, who had joined the Dutch resistance and later was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations, died Feb. 27 at the...
