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Jewish War Vets Represented at July Fourth Celebration in Baltimore
2+ hour, 51+ min ago (510+ words) Sail250 Maryland and Airshow Baltimore was a thrilling time last weekend. As the Fourth of July nears, a number of organizations, vendors, musicians and more, as well as plenty of tourists, flocked to the Inner Harbor and the Baltimore Peninsula to…...
Opinion: War Crimes and the Death of Due Process
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (616+ words) By David J. Butler The phrase "war crimes" is losing its meaning. Increasingly, even some friends of Israel concede the point, arguing only about the scale of the crimes or noting that other democracies have faced similar accusations. But that misses…...
Opinion: Elie Wiesel at 10 Years: The Defiance of Hope
1+ week, 6+ day ago (709+ words) On July 2, 2016, the world lost Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel. In the decade since, his absence has left a profound silence in the global conversation on human rights. As the 10th anniversary of his passing approaches, it…...
The Wanderers" Tells the Story of Poland"s Holocaust Survivors Who Fled to the Soviet Union
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (893+ words) Daniela Gerson was surprised to learn that most survivors, like her grandparents, survived not in concentration camps, ghettos or forests, but in the mountains of Siberia. By Shira Li Bartov Like many Holocaust survivors, Daniela Gerson's grandparents lived by the…...
AI Holocaust Content Is Booming. Is It All "Slop" " or a Solution for Fading Firsthand Memory?
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1383+ words) Toby Axelrod | JTA Seated at a desk, the girl smiles, then looks down and begins to write in a notebook. It's unmistakably Anne Frank. But wait " there is only one known film of Anne and her sister Margot. And this…...
Opinion: Flowers for a Nazi: Latvia's Shameful Victory Day Contradiction
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (678+ words) By Eugene J. Levin Every May 8, Europe commemorates the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of one of history's greatest evils. Political leaders deliver solemn speeches about freedom, democracy and the obligation to remember the victims of fascism. But in…...
In Baltimore, Jewish World War II Vet Turns 100
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (537+ words) On May 13, Leon Levy turned 100 years old. He's seen a lot. He's done a lot, too. In a world where people walk down the street staring at their phones and interacting with each other with one earbud in or a…...
Frederick Synagogues to Hold Joint Yom Ha Shoah Event With Deaf Survivor
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (621+ words) On Sunday, April 19, two synagogues in Frederick will come together to memorialize the Holocaust and hear from keynote speaker Eugene Bergman, a survivor who has been deaf since he was 7 years old but still managed to help the Polish resistance…...
In Howard County, Holocaust Stories Are Being Passed Down and Preserved
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (657+ words) David Halpern was born in France, but raised mostly in the United States. While he didn't know much about his parents' background, he knew that their native language was Polish and not French. He knew that World War II was…...
At this Jerusalem museum, everyday objects tell the story of the Holocaust in a unique way
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (817+ words) JERUSALEM " A guitar played by Jewish teenager Nina Simon of Skopje, Yugoslavia. A shortwave radio that once belonged to Raphael Ahav of Lyon, France. An embroidered prayer shawl, or tallit, used by 7-year-old Yosef Valdman of Borsczc'w, Poland. These everyday…...