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Baruch Dayan Emet – Elie Wiesel has passed away
Elie Wiesel, a giant of the Jewish nation passed away yesterday, Shabbat, aged 87. There is surely hardly anyone who hasn’t heard of the Holocaust survivor who became “the conscience of the world”, standing up for Holocaust survivors, the Jewish … Continue reading
Posted in Antisemitism, History, Judaism, Terrorism
Tagged Elie Wiesel, Holocaust, Judaism, Michael Mark, Nobel Prize, Otniel, Shoah
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Yom Hashoah 5776 – 2016: the resurgence of antisemitism
Yom Hashoah began at sundown this evening with the annual ceremony at Yad Vashem. This year’s torch-lighters were all survivors who reflected “the struggle to retain the human spirit” under terrible torture and deprivation. You can read the life-story of … Continue reading
Posted in Antisemitism, History, Israel news
Tagged antisemitism, Holocaust, Holocaust Memorial Day, Israel, Jews, Shoah, Yom Hashoah
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Bibi and the Mufti
A mini-storm of exaggerated hysteria has erupted over Binyamin Netanyahu’s faux pas – or maybe it was a deliberate overstatement – that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini, influenced Hitler to exterminate the Jews as opposed to “just” … Continue reading
Posted in Antisemitism, History, Incitement
Tagged anti-semitism, Binyamin Netanyahu, Grand Mufti, Haj Amin el-Husseini, Hitler, Holocaust, incitement, Jew hatred, Mahmoud Abbas, Muslims, Palestinians, Shoah, Yasser Arafat
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RIP. Britain’s “Schindler”, Sir Nicholas Winton, passes away at 106
With all the evil that surrounds us and that abounds in the world today, it is of utmost importance to make note of the Tzaddikim, the righteous people, who also live amongst us. One such tzaddik is Sir Nicholas Winton … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged Czechoslovakia, Jews, kindertransport, Prague, Shoah, Sir Nicholas Winton, WWII
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Remembering the Farhud pogrom in Baghdad in 1941
The Shoah, or the Holocaust, was such a huge crime with such incomprehensible numbers of victims, that it is impossible to ignore or forget. Indeed it has become almost fashionable for it to be commemorated all over the world, not … Continue reading
Posted in Antisemitism, History, Mideast news
Tagged Baghdad, Farhud, Grand Mufti, Holocaust, International Farhud Day, Iraq, Middle Eastern Jewish refugees, Nazis, pogrom, Shoah
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Guest Post: Our Roots trip to Germany – How the Stolpersteine project was born
This is a guest post by Heinz-Otto Haag, who together with his wife Heidi was our host in the town of Michelstadt during our recent roots trip to Germany. The Haags also did extensive research on our behalf to help … Continue reading
Posted in Family, History
Tagged Family history, Germany, Guest Post, Heinz-Otto Haag, Michelstadt, roots trip, Shoah, Stolpersteine
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