Kristallnacht Community Commemoration Focuses on Nazi Book Burnings
The increasing frequency of book bans in American public schools may remind some of the book burnings in Germany that served as a precursor...
Bolton Street Synagogue Religious School Students Host Yad Vashem Exhibit
Students at Bolton Street Synagogue’s religious school are getting an education about the Holocaust straight from the source, thanks to a new initiative from...
Swiss historical drama ‘Labyrinth of Peace’ shatters the myth of Switzerland’s neutrality in WWII
It’s Switzerland in 1945 and the war has just ended. A group of deeply traumatized, ragged-looking Jewish teenagers recently liberated from Buchenwald have been...
A Civil War Seder Memorialized in Fayetteville, West Virginia
Private Joseph A. Joel noticed on his calendar that Passover was coming. He and 20 fellow Jewish soldiers requested relief from duty to celebrate...
Howard County Celebrates its Jewish History and Future
The Howard County Jewish community added another chapter to its rich Jewish history Sunday night, Feb. 19. The Howard County Jewish History Project, titled...
Holocaust Book of Names to Be Inaugurated at U.N. Underscores Individual Identities of the...
Renee Ghert-Zand | JTA
When Yad Vashem was created in 1953 on the slopes of Jerusalem’s Mount of Remembrance to commemorate the Holocaust, its founders...
Three Sisters Travel to Germany to Lay Stones for Family Members Who Fled World...
Three sisters who grew up in Baltimore knew little about their mother fleeing Nazi Germany as a toddler. But an unexpected call from a...
In the Netherlands, a Majority Do Not Know the Holocaust Affected Their Country
A recent study of the Dutch population conducted by the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany showed an alarming lack of education around...
AJC Survey on Holocaust Knowledge Among Americans Shows Few Know Numbers, Details
Most U.S. adults know when the Holocaust happened and are familiar with Auschwitz, but fewer are cognizant about the number of Jews murdered and...
‘Jews Out!’ German Board Game on Exhibit at Tel Aviv University Library
On the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, a new exhibition at the Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi...
