Holocaust Memory and History

5+ hour, 25+ min ago   (854+ words) JERUSALEM, Israel | Israeli President Isaac Herzog is making Jewish peoplehood and the relationship between Israel and Diaspora Jewry central priorities for the final years of his presidency. Herzog, who has roughly two years remaining in his seven-year term, identified three…...

8+ hour, 27+ min ago   (130+ words) Yehuda Aharon Widawski, believed to be Israel’s oldest Holocaust survivor, has passed away at the age of 107. Born in 1919 in Turek, Poland, Widawski endured the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Nazi forced-labor camps. After immigrating to Israel in 1950, he eventually returned…...

14+ hour, 51+ min ago   (636+ words) Yehuda Aharon Widawski, Israel's oldest living Holocaust survivor, passed away on Friday night at the age of 107. Widawski, who survived the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and forced labor during the Holocaust, later devoted decades of his life to preserving Jewish cemeteries…...

15+ hour ago   (191+ words) The Times of Israel Yehuda Widawski, the oldest Holocaust survivor living in Israel, has died. He was 107 years old. In an interview with Yad Vashem, Widawski described conditions in the ghetto and being sent with his family to Auschwitz, as…...

19+ hour, 40+ 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…...

23+ hour, 29+ min ago   (317+ words) That night, they all slept outside. Even though it was July, prisoners remembered that they were cold and shivering under the stars. By September 1944, Decker’s family finally received news from him. According to an article in the Barnesville, Ohio, newspaper,…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (212+ words) Ynetnews Charlotte Knobloch, 93, leader of the Jewish community in Munich and Upper Bavaria, received threats against her life after calling for a boycott of the AfD, Germany’s far-right party The threats against the Holocaust survivor came as the party…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (547+ words) This paid post is sponsored by Project Kesher, which supports Jewish women and communities in Ukraine and Israel and works to strengthen Jewish life during wartime and beyond. Because this trip coincides with the High Holidays, I will seek out…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (601+ words) Stockton University will establish a new annual lecture series featuring world-renowned experts on antisemitism thanks to a $100,000 gift. Jack and Bethanie Gorny donated the money to the university’s Foundation to create The Gorny Family Fund for Understanding and Confronting Antisemitism....

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (262+ words) Editor’s note: We are proud to print our former intern Nava Lacher’s final piece from the summer in this special Erev Rosh Hashanah edition. Night after night, we waited for Klaus to tell us the story of why a non-Jewish, Austrian-born,…...