“”Jud Süss — Rise and Fall” tells the story of one man’s Faustian pact with the Hitler regime. The film shows Ferdinand Marian as a tragic figure who gained and then lost everything after starring in Goebbels’ pet project. But his biographer has berated the filmmakers for deviating from history and many critics have been […]
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“Alexander Chassidim represented the second largest Chassidishe group in pre-WWII Poland; exceeded in number only by Gerer Chassidim. As his following grew, Rabbi Yechiel Danziger, in 1878, established his Chassidishe court in Aleksandrow/Lodzki, called Alexander by the Chassidim. It is a township near Lodz in Poland. It was established on March 22, 1822 and named […]
” A detail of a toy-sized diamond-studded train by Danish artist Marco Evaristti, part of a sculpture commemorating the horrors of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp, in Copenhagen, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. Evaristti, a Chilean-born Buddhist convert with Jewish parents, said parts of the 5.1-pound (2.3-kilogram) sculpture were built with enamel and gold fillings from […]
“Naturally the commemorative publication makes no mention of what happened in Garmisch-Partenkirchen after the Olympics. The anti-Jewish signs were put up again. Beginning in 1937, the resort administration inserted notes that read “Jews not wanted” into all brochures sent to addresses within Germany. On Nov. 10, 1938, the last group of roughly 50 Jews living […]
“Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives at Rome’s main synagogue January 17, 2010. “ DayLife.com
Golda Meir proposed limiting aliyah of handicapped Polish Jews
By Lily Galili, Haaretz Correspondent
“In 1958, then-foreign minister Golda Meir raised the possibility of preventing handicapped and sick Polish Jews from immigrating to Israel, a recently discovered Foreign Ministry document has revealed.”A proposal was raised in the coordination committee to inform the Polish government that we want […]
“NAPLES, Fla. — Ten students at a Naples middle school were suspended after district officials say they participated in “kick a Jew day.” District spokesman Joe Landon says a Jewish student at North Naples Middle School student reported being kicked on Thursday. The school’s principal addressed the entire student body the next morning and asked […]
“Earlier today the BBC reported that easyJet.com was taking immediate steps to respond to the criticism. In a statement, easyJet said it ‘profusely apologises’ to anyone who was offended by the ‘inappropriate’ shoot and said it would withdraw this month’s issue from all flights. The statement continues, “Easyjet prides itself on bringing together […]
“Then, amid terrible violence unleashed against Jewish Viennese, King Zog messengered to Fritzi’s father the papers that would grant all members of the Weitzman family safe passage to Albania. In all, Fritzi and twelve relatives immigrated to Albania. The day after Kristallnacht, Fritzi and her immediately family left Vienna and arrived in the port city […]
Bishop Richard Williamson, who plunged the Vatican into crisis earlier this year by denying the Holocaust in a television interview, may face a €12,000 fine. But he told SPIEGEL that he never intended his interview to be broadcast in Germany. Denying the Holocaust can be expensive. That, at least, could be the lesson facing […]
Experience the amazing true story of Dina Gottliebova Babbitt, an artist who survived two years at Auschwitz by painting portraits for the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele. This faithful adaptation of the six-page comic created by the David S. Wyman Institute For Holocaust Studies combines illustrations by Neal Adams, motion graphics, and music to bring the […]
