22+ hour, 59+ min ago   (84+ words) An oral history project organized by former schoolteacher Matthew Rozell to interview World War II veterans uncovered little-known stories from the conflict, including the liberation by American troops of 2,500 Holocaust survivors from a so-called "death train" in April 1945. Correspondent Seth…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (526+ words) Tammy Borden hold her book Waltraud, which tells the tale of her mother growing up in Nazi Germany. Borden was a featured speaker during a Society for Learning Unlimited program at the Beloit Public Library on Wednesday. BELOIT – Wisconsin author…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (376+ words) The Alternative for Germany party won nearly 44% of the vote in the state election in Saxony-Anhalt, a result that has horrified 83-year-old Eva Umlauf — a survivor of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz who now heads the International Auschwitz Committee. In…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (227+ words) Southerly to westerly winds upwards of 25 mph create 4-foot waves and dangerous rip currents through this evening. Stay off all piers. PAW PAW, Mich. — A group of middle school students will act as peer guides for a touring Anne Frank…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (856+ words) Jewish pop star Pink weighs in after Macklemore’s ‘Free Palestine’ speech at Ed Sheeran concert This isn’t a Jewish restaurant. So why is it making challah, knishes and matzo balls? She found a coral reef that shouldn’t exist. Now she’s…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (845+ words) Throughout her childhood Marisa Fox heard stories about her mother’s escapades as a spy and freedom fighter. Tamar Fromer Fox had told her daughter that in 1939 she managed to escape from Poland to Palestine, where she joined a Jewish paramilitary…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (394+ words) Berl and Raja Ilman Kagan in Lithuania before the war. Credit: Miriam Kagan Lieber People who have known Miriam Lieber as a neighbor in the town of Oceanside, or through her longtime directorship of the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County,…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (452+ words) A plaque commemorating the life and sacrifice of Scottish Christian woman, Jane Haining, has been unveiled at Auschwitz. Haining was born in Dumfriesshire in 1897. In 1932 she moved to Hungary to serve as matron of the Scottish Mission School in Budapest....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (671+ words) The name of a Scottish missionary who was murdered by the Nazis after caring for Jewish schoolgirls in Budapest has been added to a special memorial wall at Auschwitz. Miss Haining, who grew up near Dunscore in Dumfries and Galloway,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (836+ words) JERUSALEM, ISRAEL | I recently watched a documentary about the campaign to oppose the German American Bund rally held at Madison Square Garden on Feb. 20, 1939. The film brought back memories of my grandfather, Abraham Levy, and the price he paid for…...