Holocaust survivors
Jewish group launches Holocaust survivor speakers bureau to fight increasing antisemitism worldwide
By Kirsten Grieshaber — April 4, 2024
BERLIN (AP) — The Survivor Speakers Bureau was launched Thursday by the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, also referred to as the Claims Conference.
Nazi death camp survivors mark 79th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day
By Czarek Sokolowski — January 29, 2024
OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — About 20 survivors from various camps set up by Nazi Germany around Europe laid wreaths and flowers and lit candles at the Death Wall in Auschwitz.
Almost 80 years after the Holocaust, 245,000 Jewish survivors are still alive
By Kirsten Grieshaber — January 23, 2024
BERLIN (AP) — Their numbers are quickly dwindling, as most are very old and often of frail health, with a median age of 86.
Holocaust survivors will mark Hanukkah amid worries over war in Israel, global rise of antisemitism
By Kirsten Grieshaber — December 11, 2023
BERLIN (AP) — Survivors can join an online ceremony of a menorah lighting on Monday night to pay tribute to the 6 million European Jews killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust.
Germany to give $1.4 billion to Holocaust survivors globally in 2024
By Kirsten Grieshaber — June 15, 2023
BERLIN (AP) — The compensation was negotiated with Germany's finance ministry and includes $888.9 million to provide home care and supportive services for frail and vulnerable Holocaust survivors.
Unknown Holocaust photos – found in attics and archives – are helping researchers recover lost stories and providing a tool against denial
By Wolf Gruner — September 23, 2022
(The Conversation) — Holocaust scholars long relied on documents and survivor testimonies to help reconstruct the history of that tragic event. Now, they’re turning to wordless witnesses to learn more: pictures.
New book ‘Interpreting Religion’ dares to ask ‘how’
By Kathryn Post — June 13, 2022
(RNS) — How do religious people make meaning? And how are those meanings transmitted, contested and remade?
Holocaust survivors mark Hanukkah at Jerusalem Western Wall
By Associated Press — November 30, 2021
The candle-lighting was organized by the Jewish Claims Conference at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, the holiest place where Jews can pray.
A moving ‘reunion’ for descendants of Holocaust survivors
By Bobby Ross Jr. — October 27, 2021
As a result of Anna Salton Eisen’s research, family members of eight Holocaust survivors met for the first time recently.
At Yiddish Week, a beloved language is as vital as ever
By David I. Klein — August 25, 2021
(RNS) — Attendees include everyone from non-Jews to secular Jews, as well as Reform, Conservative and Orthodox Jews ranging in age from infants to nearly 90.
Poland keeps ambassador at home amid dispute with Israel
By Vanessa Gera — August 17, 2021
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Israel downgraded diplomatic ties with Warsaw and strongly criticized a new Polish law that restricts the rights of Holocaust survivors to reclaim property.
NY Holocaust survivors celebrated at concert after isolation
By Luis Andres Henao — June 15, 2021
NEW YORK (AP) — 'To be out once again is like reviving ourselves. To sit among our children and grandchildren is heartwarming,' said Dolly Rabinowitz, who lived through Auschwitz and the Death March.
Holocaust survivors use social media to fight anti-Semitism
By David Rising — April 8, 2021
(AP) — The #ItStartedWithWords campaign educates people about how the Nazis dehumanized Jews years before death camps were established.
Israel hopes to vaccinate Holocaust survivors to save and repay ‘treasured’ population
By Michele Chabin — January 14, 2021
(RNS) — An Israeli government initiative to help vaccinate Holocaust survivors around the world against COVID-19 is drawing praise for its intentions, but also skepticism.
Yom Kippur Zoom reunites Holocaust survivors 71 years later
By Luis Andres Henao and Jessie Wardarski — October 20, 2020
NEW YORK (AP) — More than 70 years had passed since last seeing her friend at an Austrian displaced persons camp. Then Ruth Brandspiegel heard a familiar name being called out in a Yom Kippur service held in late September via Zoom.
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