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In glitzy interwar Warsaw, truth meets fiction as 2 young women hunt for missing mentor
3+ hour, 6+ min ago (803+ words) Renee Ghert-Zand is the health reporter and a feature writer for The Times of Israel. Five years ago, it was clear to author Judy Batalion that she was not done with the determined, resilient young Jewish women she had come…...
In Albania, teens at German school discover tribal code of honor that saved Jews in WWII
7+ hour, 21+ min ago (1291+ words) TIRANA, Albania (JTA) " Sixteen-year-old Melisa Malo, a 10th-grader at Tirana's Gjimnazi Sami Frash'ri, first learned about the Holocaust four years ago when she attended an Albanian-language stage performance of "The Diary of Anne Frank." That evening, her parents told her…...
The elderly were among the most vulnerable in the Holocaust – and the most overlooked
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (762+ words) Robert Philpot is a writer and journalist. He is the former editor of Progress magazine and the author of "Margaret Thatcher: The Honorary Jew." In Britain, the stories of Jewish child refugees who escaped the Nazis on the famous "Kindertransport…...
Certain death, small chance of success: The pre-state parachuters who jumped into Nazi Europe
2+ week, 5+ hour ago (724+ words) Renee Ghert-Zand is the health reporter and a feature writer for The Times of Israel. Travel around Israel, and you will find streets, squares, and kibbutzim named for Hannah Senesh, Enzo Sereni, and Haviva Reik. While the names are familiar,…...
WWII vet who shielded Jews at Nazi POW camp at gunpoint gets medal of honor
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (580+ words) US Master Sgt. Roderick W. Edmonds, who protected his Jewish comrades in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, was one of three people to be awarded the Medal of Honor by US President Donald Trump on Monday. Edmonds died…...
US soldier who saved Jews in POW camp during WWII to be awarded Medal of Honor
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (371+ words) JTA " An American soldier who is credited with saving the lives of 200 Jewish comrades in a prisoner of war camp in Germany during World War II will receive the US military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor. The award to…...
‘Deep joy and strength’: 96-year-old Holocaust survivor is Israel’s newest immigrant
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (568+ words) Eight decades after surviving the Auschwitz death camp during the Holocaust, 96-year-old Charlotte Roth officially became an Israeli citizen this week. After building her life in Cleveland, Ohio, ever since she arrived in the United States as a refugee shortly…...
‘Anne Frank was in Amsterdam legally’: Trump antisemitism envoy refutes Walz ICE comparison
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (611+ words) JTA " In the lead-up to International Holocaust Remembrance Day, both the US State Department's antisemitism envoy and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum criticized Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for invoking Anne Frank in discussions of federal immigration raids. The remarks by…...
82 years after death in China, Jewish WWII pilot returned to US for burial
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (426+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 811 A Jewish American fighter pilot shot down over China in World War II finally received a proper burial in South Carolina recently, after his remains were identified more than eighty years later, according to the US…...
German painting of Anne Frank in keffiyeh sparks outrage
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (527+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 811 A painting depicting Anne Frank as wearing a keffiyeh has drawn sharp criticism from German and Israeli officials, with some saying the work crosses the line between legitimate art and antisemitic propaganda. The Israeli Embassy in…...