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Library of Virginia remembers Berlin native who survived German concentration camps and lived in Richmond
For International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Library of Virginia is remembering Gerda Nothmann Luner, a Berlin native who ...
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'Salvation': How Bulgaria's Jews Were Saved From Nazi Extermination
In Varna, tourists strolling past the seaside city's Archaeological Museum might notice a monument of a shofar, a Jewish horn ...
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Full-scale replica of Anne Frank's hidden annex opens in NYC
The exhibit at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan represents the first time the annex has been completely recreated ...
Auschwitz memorial holds observances on the 80th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation
The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being marked on Monday at the site of the former ...
Oświęcim’s sole Jewish resident reflects on modern antisemitism on 80th anniversary of Auschwitz camp’s liberation
Among 34,000 people in the town of Oświęcim is just one Jew – a young Israeli named Hila Weisz-Gut. It’s an interesting choice of residence, given the most famous feature of the town is its proximity ...
'It was an escape into excellence': How music saved the life of a teenage Jewish cellist in Auschwitz
After being sent to the Nazi death camp in 1943, Anita Lasker survived by playing in its women's orchestra. In 1996, she spoke to the BBC about her ordeal.
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Anne Frank didn’t live here — she never had the chance
For my bat mitzvah, my parents surprised me with a stop in Amsterdam — en route home from Israel to New Jersey — to visi. It ...
World commemorates the Holocaust as Jewish community groups warn of rising antisemitism
- A star of David behind a sculpture by German artist Will Lammert is pictured at a Jewish cemetery and memorial in Berlin, ...