Jewish Federations of North America have awarded dozens of grants to help Holocaust survivors and seniors

The Holocaust Care Center and the Institute on Aging and Trauma at the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) have awarded grants to support more than three dozen Jewish and non-Jewish agencies providing social services to Holocaust survivors, older adults with trauma, and...

From the Holocaust to the war: how a San Francisco educator created an online theater with the participation of children from Ukraine

Elena Bilyak created her first theater in her native Lviv in the late 80s. As a student of philology, she came to practice at the school where she studied herself. The reporting of that time required not only lessons, but also the so-called “test events”, in ...

Florida woman swindles Holocaust survivor out of $2,8 million

Florida resident Peaches Stergo has been sentenced to 51 months in prison by the Southern District of New York for her years-long scheme to deceive an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor. The scammer defrauded the victim of $ 2,8 million. At least from May 2017 until about October ...

The Holocaust is long over, but anti-Semitism continues: how it happens and how to deal with it

“You are not obligated to complete the work, but you must not stop trying,” says Jewish wisdom from the Mishnah. On April 19, 1943, an uprising broke out in the Warsaw ghetto. Its residents tried to stop the German army and police who entered the ghetto to...

Biden announces US Holocaust Remembrance Week

Joe Biden declared the week from April 16 to 23 Holocaust Remembrance Days and called on people to remember the dead and survivors of the tragic events of history, Voice of America reports. This week, US President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken delivered...

A resident of Florida defrauded an elderly man of $ 2,8 million: he wrote her more than 60 checks

A 36-year-old Florida woman was arrested after federal authorities said she swindled $2,8 million from a Holocaust survivor in a "multi-year scheme" that began on a dating app. USA Today writes about it. U.S. Attorney's Office said Peaches...

Risk yourself for others: how representatives of different countries and religions saved Jews during the Holocaust

On January 27, the whole world honors the memory of the victims of one of the greatest tragedies of humanity - the Holocaust. And although at that time most Europeans reacted to the genocide with indifference, and some countries even took part in the extermination of Jews, there were people everywhere...

Jewish Federations of North America donate $5,4 million to aid Holocaust survivors

Many Holocaust survivors say that the war in Ukraine reminded them of the horrors they went through. On the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, the Center for Survivors of the Jewish Federations of North America announced grants for…

Vatican releases thousands of Holocaust-era files, including requests for help from Jews

Pope Francis has ordered 170 volumes of Jewish files from the recently opened archives of Pope Pius XII to be published online. The Vatican made the announcement amid renewed debate over the Pope's World War II legacy. The Times Of…

Apologies Didn't Help: Whoopi Goldberg Was Suspended For Inappropriate Holocaust Speech

The management of the American television channel ABC suspended actress Whoopi Goldberg from participating in a talk show after her statements that “two groups of white people” participated in the Holocaust, the BBC reports. ABC News reported that Goldberg will not appear on air for two weeks.…

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