Holocaust survivor calls for tolerance as ‘we all come from the same family’
Janine Webber BEM, 92, hid under a wardrobe with her family to avoid Nazi persecution during the Second World War.
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Bravery and hope: my grandmother’s Holocaust story.
Mama’s life was a testament to resilience. Despite her hardships, she exuded warmth, dignity, and kindness. She taught me to see the humanity in everyone, to give generously, and to be grateful. Even in the hospital, she thanked every doctor, nurse, and cleaner with genuine appreciation.
80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, amid rising antisemitism, the memory of the Holocaust remains contentious
The liberation of Auschwitz is being commemorated in the shadow of rising antisemitism in Australia and globally.
Musk mocks Nazi salute accusations with puns
Elon Musk referenced Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders in a social media post filled with puns early Thursday taunting those who accused him of doing a Nazi salute at an event after President
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Tim Walz wrote a master’s thesis on Holocaust education, just as his own school’s approach drew criticism
“The Holocaust is taught too often purely as a ... For a week, freshmen wore the yellow stars, and seniors playing the Gestapo were given permission to torment them. Such lessons had been ...
The Holocaust: how ‘rescue archaeology’ is tackling the impending loss of surviving witnesses
Belatedly, the survivors were rescued from obscurity and the human element of the tragedy came to the fore. Local and then international testimony projects emerged, the largest being the ongoing Visual History Archive which has interviewed close to 60,000 survivors, including of more recent genocides such as that in Rwanda.
Holocaust memorial chair: Musk’s call for Germany to ‘move beyond’ Nazi guilt is dangerous
The chair of Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial, said Sunday tech billionaire Elon Musk’s call for Germans to “move beyond” the crimes of Nazi Germany is dangerous for the country’s
Whittier resident lived a hidden history of Jewish survival
Brookfield, 98, and a longtime resident of Whittier, was born in Chemnitz, Germany, the only child of Willy and Dora Fleischmann. On Saturday, she shared her memories in advance of International Holocaust Memorial Day, marked this year on Monday. She was 11 in 1936 when she remembers other children in her school learning to be cruel.
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The liberation of Auschwitz, 80 years on: Ginette Kolinka, using humour to survive horror
The Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland was liberated by Soviet forces on January 27, 1945. Eighty years later, only a few of its survivors remain. At nearly 100 years old, Ginette
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Remembering two brave Cork women who saved hundreds from Nazi terror
Ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on Monday, it is fitting to recalls two Cork women who saved hundreds of people from Nazi terror
'My mother sacrificed herself for me': Escape from the train of death
As the Nazis entered their small flat, his mother, Chana, and older sister, Ita, turned pale and started trembling. After examining Chana's ID card and passport, he confirmed her fears. It was March 1943,
‘Resistance: They Fought Back’ a different take on Holocaust
A passion project, Paula Apsell’s “Resistance” is also a corrective to the long-held assumption that as Hitler’s Nazis swore to erase the entire Jewish race, “Jews went to their deaths like