Shoah (Holocaust)

Holocaust Glossary

The following is intended to provide a frame of reference for discussion. Anti-Semitism Anti-Semitism is a prejudice and/or discrimination against Jews. Anti-Semitism can be based on hatred against…

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Rev Chris Edmonds/Jewish Leader Summit 2016

Pastor Chris Edmonds of Piney Grove Baptist Church on Maryville, Tennessee, is the son of the World War II hero, Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds, who saved nearly 200 Jewish prisoners of war from a…

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Beit Shalom Congregation in Kiev Honors the Memory of Holocaust…

This year on January 27, the world commemorated not only the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, but also the 75th anniversary of the liberation of…

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No Tears Left: Mengele Victim Returns to Auschwitz

Alina Dabrowska, a survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in the occupied Polish town of Oswiecim spent the next five decades unable to set foot…

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Raoul Wallenberg

Today marks the 75th anniversary of the capture of Raoul Wallenberg by the Russians.

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Oprah Interviews Elie Wiesel at Auschwitz

Back in 2006, the Oprah Winfrey Network honored the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust by interviewing and featuring Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize…

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Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds: Faith, Family, Friends, Freedom

This short video encapsulates the incredibly extraordinary actions of a non-Jewish American prisoner of war in defending fellow Jewish soldiers from an almost…

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Auschwitz Survivor Searches for Family

Menachem Bodner was a twin survivor of the infamous Mengele twin experiments.

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Krystyna’s Story

On February 6, 1947, 11 1/2-year-old Krystyna Chiger was interviewed by Magistrate Maria Holender. During the war, she had been hidden with her family in the…

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Why the Holocaust Was Possible

Contrary to the views of some authors, anti-Semitism alone was not responsible for the Holocaust.

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Koolulam - Hai - Ofra Haza - Holocaust Remembrance Day March 21, 2018

Koolulam, a self-proclaimed “social-musical initiative” based in Tel Aviv, partnered with Zikaron Basalon, another “social initiative,” to honor Shoah…

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It's the Right Thing to Do

Abhorred by the actions of the Nazis, one leader in a distant southwestern Asian archipelago opened the doors of his country to Jews needing to flee their…

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A Survivor's Story, in Another Dimension

Pinchas Gutter sat in an armchair surrounded by hundreds of LED lights.

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Beyond Secret Tears

I was 4 years old and my brother was 5-1/2 years old when we were first separated from our parents and placed in a Protestant orphanage in Belgium. I was a…

The Lack of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust

Many factors made Jewish resistance to the Nazis during the Holocaust both difficult and dangerous. At first, most Jews believed they would be re-settled to a productive life. Many Jewish leaders…

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The Codebreaker who Hacked Hitler

Meet Gordon Welchman, a key member of the British team that took on the Nazis, decoded the Enigma machine, and changed the course of World War II.

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A Cherished Sweater: Kristine Keren's Green Sweater

For Kristine Chiger (later Kristine Keren post-war), then a 7-year old Jewish girl whose family was relocated to the Lvov ghetto, one piece of material comfort she clung to over the years was a minty…

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I Survived the Holocaust Twin Experiments

Eva was one of a pair of twins who survived the horrific experiments done on twins by Dr. Mengele during the holocaust.

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Beyond Secret Tears

I was 4 years old and my brother was 5-1/2 years old when we were first separated from our parents and placed in a Protestant orphanage in Belgium. I was a depressed and confused child, but with the…

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I Found the Place My Grandfather was Murdered in the Holocaust

The Babi Yar (translating from Ukranian as the “Old Woman’s Ravine”) massacre resulted in the machine-gunned deaths of nearly 34,000 Jews and other “undesirables” a few metro stops outside downtown…

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Syndrome K

In the fall of 1943, German soldiers in Italy began rounding up Italian Jews and deporting them—10,000 people were sent to concentration camps during the nearly two-year Nazi occupation. Most never…

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Nearly 70 Years on, Holocaust Survivor Reunites with "Righteous" Rescuer

67 years had passed since they last saw each other, Wladyslawa Dudziak was flown to New York last week from Poland to meet with Rozia Beiman whom she had saved from the Nazis more than a half-century…

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Oprah Interviews Elie Wiesel at Auschwitz

Back in 2006, the Oprah Winfrey Network honored the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust by interviewing and featuring Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, and New York Times bestselling…

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Rescued by and Egyptian in Berlin

Dr. Mohamed Helmy was born in Khartoum in 1901 to Egyptian parents. In 1922 Helmy went to Germany to study medicine and settled in Berlin. After he completed his studies, he went to work at the…

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Rudolf Hoess, former Auschwitz Commandant, Testifying at Nuremberg Trial, April 15, 1946)

Rudolf Hoess, former Auschwitz Commandant, Testifying at Nuremberg Trial, April 15, 1946

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The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking

THIRTEEN years ago, researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum began the grim task of documenting all the ghettos, slave labor sites, concentration camps and killing factories that…

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France to Return Art Stolen by Nazis

The French government has launched a new bid to return paintings stolen by the Nazis to their rightful owners - or, given the seven decades that has passed - their descendants. Depicting the Normandy…

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