The Holocaust

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Everyone Has Benefitted from This Holocaust Survivor’s Inventions

Professor Abraham Lempel arrived in Israel as a 12-year-old orphan escaping WWII Europe and became one of the greatest minds of our century.

https://aish.com/everyone-has-benefitted-from-this-holocaust-survivors-inventions/?

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Novel about Chinese rescuer of Jews raises questions about facts vs. fiction in Holocaust stories

TAIPEI (JTA) — Ho Feng-Shan, the Chinese diplomat stationed in Vienna who helped thousands of Jews escape from Europe during World War II, never met Adolf Eichmann.

https://www.jta.org/2023/02/14/global/novel-about-chinese-rescuer-of-jews-raises-questions-about-facts-vs-fiction-in-holocaust-stories?

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Victimized Twice: Holocaust Survivors in Ukraine

As the Nazis rounded up and killed thousands of Jews in Mariupol during the Holocaust, Vanda Vasil’eva was just a child who survived by hiding until liberation.

Last year, Vanda died at 91, cowering in a basement in Mariupol, hiding from Russia’s deadly siege. Join us one year after Russia’s invasion into Ukraine to discuss its devastating impact on Ukraine’s Holocaust survivors.

https://www.facebook.com/holocaustmuseum/videos/872974603801098/

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Wikipedia’s ‘Supreme Court’ tackles alleged conspiracy to distort articles on Holocaust

(JTA) — When a pair of professors earlier this month published a paper accusing a group of Wikipedia editors from Poland of revising articles to distort the history of the Holocaust, their research went viral.

https://www.jta.org/2023/02/28/global/wikipedias-supreme-court-tackles-alleged-conspiracy-to-distort-articles-on-holocaust?

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As European nations celebrate their past, a US Holocaust envoy reminds them of its darker corners

WASHINGTON (JTA) — At a time when some European nations are seeking to revise their Holocaust histories to emphasize victimhood, a senior Biden administration official says the United States should keep reminding them of the dark corners of their past. 

https://www.jta.org/2023/03/02/politics/as-european-nations-celebrate-their-past-a-us-holocaust-envoy-reminds-them-of-its-darker-corners?

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Albania to build museum to citizens who saved Jews during Holocaust

(JTA) — Albania’s prime minister announced plans to open a museum in Tirana dedicated to the stories of its citizens who saved Jews during the Holocaust. 

https://www.jta.org/2023/03/03/global/albania-to-build-museum-to-citizens-who-saved-jews-during-holocaust?

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Vienna’s UK embassy honours diplomats and clergy who saved Jews from Nazis

The UK ambassador recently discovered her own grandmother escaped on the Kindertransport

https://www.thejc.com/news/world/vienna's-uk-embassy-honours-diplomats-and-clergy-who-saved-jews-from-nazis-2E8QigJItRYMCp5TAz7UiV

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Flashes of Memory: Photography during the Holocaust

Photographs from the Holocaust are critical tools for research - and for preserving memory. They were created by Jews imprisoned in ghettos, by liberating armies, and by the Nazis themselves. Today, they are a testimony. These images, found in the archives of Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem, will be on display at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin starting in March 2023.

https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/videos/holocaust-legacy/flashes-of-memory-photography-during-the-holocaust

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An Heiress Turned Rescuer

She was a multimillionaire at age 11, but as she got older wanted no part of life as a socialite. Living in Vienna as the Nazis seized control, American Muriel Gardiner used her money, connections, and quick thinking to save lives. She lied to border agents, smuggled fake papers in her corset, provided safe haven for Jewish friends and strangers, and had her own close call with the Gestapo. Later, from America, Muriel poured her heart and resources into helping Austrian refugees—though her husband got most of the credit. As we commemorate Women’s History Month, learn about Muriel's secret life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

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These Holocaust survivors were once classmates in a DP camp. They just reunited after 76 years.

The last time Michael Epstein, 87, and Abe Rosenberg, 82, were in the same room, they were in Germany, studying in a classroom in a displaced person’s camp in Bavaria after the Holocaust.

https://www.jta.org/2023/03/20/ny/these-holocaust-survivors-were-once-classmates-in-a-dp-camp-they-just-reunited-after-76-years?

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Holocaust Survivor Turns 101

Nat Ross was forced to dig his own grave in Auschwitz. A Death March almost killed him. He just turned 101.

https://aish.com/holocaust-survivor-turns-101/?

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Holocaust survivors offered DNA tests to help find family

NEW YORK (AP) — For decades, Jackie Young had been searching.

https://apnews.com/article/science-religion-new-york-jackie-young-72fa155592403e01958cbcff1de9f1cf?

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Women during the Holocaust

The Nazi regime targeted all Jews, both men and women, for persecution and eventually death. The regime frequently subjected women, however, both Jewish and non-Jewish, to brutal persecution that was sometimes unique to the gender of the victims. Nazi ideology also targeted Roma View This Term in the Glossary (Gypsy) women, Polish women, and women with disabilities living in institutions.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/women-during-the-holocaust?

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Defining an Unimaginable Crime: The Story of Raphael Lemkin

Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jewish lawyer, escaped the Nazis but lost 49 members of his family in the Holocaust. He coined the word genocide in 1944 to describe the deliberate attempt to wipe out a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. Lemkin devoted the last 15 years of his life to lobbying governments to recognize genocide as an international crime and changed the legal landscape. Despite his impact, he died alone and penniless in 1959.

https://medium.com/memory-action/defining-an-unimaginable-crime-the-story-of-raphael-lemkin-b6c843353773

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Ben Ferencz: Last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor dies, aged 103

Ben Ferencz was just 27 when he secured the convictions of Nazi officers for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-65223756?

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Rep. Dan Goldman: Holocaust education should celebrate Jewish life, too

(New York Jewish Week) — Nearly three months ago, Rep. Dan Goldman was one of dozens of cosponsors of a bipartisan bill to monitor Holocaust education across the country. Now, ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day — and in the wake of a report showing antisemitism rising in the United States — Goldman says Holocaust education needs to celebrate Jewish life in addition to combating hate.

https://www.jta.org/2023/04/14/ny/rep-dan-goldman-holocaust-education-should-celebrate-jewish-life-too?

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‘How Saba Kept Singing,’ Holocaust doc produced by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, to air on PBS for Yom Hashoah

(JTA) — Hillary and Chelsea Clinton have produced a documentary about a Holocaust survivor that will debut on PBS on Tuesday, timed to Yom Hashoah, or Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day.

https://www.jta.org/2023/04/14/culture/how-saba-kept-singing-holocaust-doc-produced-by-hillary-and-chelsea-clinton-to-air-on-pbs-for-yom-hashoah?

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These Holocaust survivors were once classmates in a DP camp. They just reunited after 76 years.

(New York Jewish Week) — The last time Michael Epstein, 87, and Abe Rosenberg, 82, were in the same room, they were in Germany, studying in a classroom in a displaced person’s camp in Bavaria after the Holocaust.

https://www.jta.org/2023/03/20/ny/these-holocaust-survivors-were-once-classmates-in-a-dp-camp-they-just-reunited-after-76-years?

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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising’s 80th anniversary marked with daffodils, 3 presidents and an 11th commandment against ‘indifference’

WARSAW (JTA) — Exactly 80 years ago, a few hundred ragtag, half-starved Jews emerged from sewers in Warsaw to battle Nazis – and held them off for nearly a month rather than surrender themselves and their Jewish brethren to the Treblinka and Majdanek death camps. 

https://www.jta.org/2023/04/19/global/warsaw-ghetto-uprisings-80th-anniversary-remembered-with-daffodils-3-presidents-and-an-11th-commandment-against-indifference?

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A Holocaust cattle car in Times Square makes a moving, if jarring, statement

(New York Jewish Week) — Times Square may be best known for its flashy billboards, roving bands of knock-off Elmos and hordes of gawking tourists. But on Tuesday, Holocaust Remembrance Day, visitors to the “crossroads of the world” could also see a replica of the kind of cattle car that transported millions of Jews to their deaths in Nazi-run concentration camps. 

https://www.jta.org/2023/04/18/ny/a-holocaust-cattle-car-in-times-square-makes-a-moving-if-jarring-statement?

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2023 Days of Remembrance Commemoration

The US Congress established the Days of Remembrance as the nation’s annual commemoration of the Holocaust, during which we remember the six million Jews who were murdered. Since 1982, the Museum has organized and led the national Days of Remembrance ceremony with Holocaust survivors, Members of Congress, White House officials, the diplomatic corps, and community leaders. As we lead the nation in honoring the survivors, paying tribute to the rescuers, and celebrating the liberators, we are reminded of the power of their history to inspire all of us to confront antisemitism, all forms of group-targeted hate, and genocide.

https://www.ushmm.org/watch/2023-days-of-remembrance-commemoration?

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The Dominican Republic was a haven for Jews fleeing the Nazis. A museum project could tell that story.

SOSUA, Dominican Republic (JTA) — Sitting inside a small wood-frame shul just around the corner from Playa Alicia, where tourists sip rum punch while watching catamarans glide by, Joe Benjamin recounted one of the most uplifting but often forgotten stories of Jewish survival during the Holocaust.

https://www.jta.org/2023/04/26/global/the-dominican-republic-was-a-haven-for-jews-fleeing-the-nazis-a-museum-project-could-tell-that-story?

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An Interview with Ambassador Michèle Taylor

As part of Genocide Prevention and Awareness Month, we spoke with Ambassador Michèle Taylor, US Permanent Representative to the United Nations Human Rights Council. Ambassador Taylor is a lifelong human rights activist and a daughter and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. She was a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Council and served on the Museum’s Committee on State Sponsored Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial, as well as the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide’s advisory body, the Committee on Conscience.

https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/blog/an-interview-with-ambassador-michele-taylor?

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What a Secret Archive Taught the World

Most of what we know about the Holocaust comes from Nazi perpetrator documents. One striking exception is the Ringelblum Archive: a massive collection of artifacts and writings from Jews trapped in the Warsaw ghetto during the German occupation of Poland. Under the leadership of historian Emanuel Ringelblum, these oppressed people secretly wrote and preserved their own history.

https://www.ushmm.org/learn/podcasts-and-audio/12-years-that-shook-the-world/what-a-secret-archive-taught-the-world?

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The Lodz Ghetto

Lodz had the second largest Jewish population in prewar Poland, after Warsaw. German troops occupied Lodz in September 1939. In early February 1940, the Germans established a ghetto in Lodz and crowded more than 150,000 Jews into an area of about one and a half square miles. In 1941 and 1942 almost 40,000 Central European Jews and 5,000 Roma (Gypsies) were also forced into the ghetto. Between January and September 1942, over 75,000 ghetto residents were deported from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center. By the spring of 1944, the Lodz ghetto was the last remaining in German-occupied Poland. During that summer, the Germans deported the remaining Jews, most of them to Auschwitz.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/animated-map/the-lodz-ghetto

ps:From listening to this video, I'm surprised my Father ever survived, because all his family except him and one brother, who escaped to Russia, died in his home town of Lodz!!