A holocaust after Auschwitz
- Jan T. Gross’ new book is a searing indictment of Poland’s murder of its Jewish residents in the years after World War II.
Admissions against interest about ‘the Holocaust’
A holocaust after Auschwitz
(JTA) — Germany published a new list of its citizens who were killed in the Holocaust.
The new register, published May 7, updates the first edition, from 1986, which listed only victims from the former West Germany. The new version includes all of Germany and parts of modern Poland and contains 150,000 names. Up to 600,000 Jews lived in Germany before the rise of the Nazis in the 1930s.
Continue readingHolocaust Survivor Challenges Students to End Prejudice
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Now a resident of Pomona, Gabrielle Silten was arrested by the Nazis in June 1943 along with her parents and grandmother, and transported to a Nazi concentration camp in Westbork, Holland. Silten was 10 years old at the time.
Continue readingDays after Oprah Winfrey’s last Book Club selection was unmasked as fraud, triggering a national conversation among literati and lay readers alike about the definition and significance of memoir, the talk show host and cultural arbiter announced her next choice: “Night,” Elie Wiesel’s seminal autobiographical account of his experience during the Holocaust.
Continue readingHolocaust ‘avengers’ recount deadly deeds
A group of elderly Holocaust survivors came forward yesterday with accounts of a death squad they formed after World War II to take revenge on their Nazi persecutors, recounting a brazen operation in which they poisoned hundreds of SS officers.
Continue readingHitler’s Pope Story a Myth, Rabbi Finds
“The Myth of Hitler’s Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews From the Nazis” by Rabbi David G. Dalin (Regnery, $27.95).
Continue readingNSA report calls Holocaust deniers, scholars
A National Security Agency report labels Holocaust deniers as “scholars and researchers” — causing some to demand the report be recalled
Continue readingHolocaust survivor speaks at WHS
The last time Sonia Weitz spoke to her mother, she promised the older woman she would tell of the horrors of the Holocaust.
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Simon Wiesenthal: ‘The Conscience of the Holocaust, Dies in Vienna’ at 96
Simon Wiesenthal, the famous Nazi Hunter has died in Vienna at the age of 96, the Simon Wiesenthal Center announced […]
Continue readingHolocaust survivor tells
Woman wrote children’s book, to speak at schools
When Holocaust survivor Marion Blumenthal Lazan was 11 years old, she had already endured six years of starvation, cold, disease and other horrors of being Jewish in Nazi Germany.
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