The streaming platform Netflix will show the documentary series “The Devil Next Door.” This is the story of an ordinary American citizen, Ivan Demjanjuk, originally from Ukraine, who hid his dark past from everyone. BURO writes about this. For his loved ones and family, he was an ordinary retired auto mechanic,...
Each of these men had been convinced for decades that his cousin and childhood best friend was long dead. Both of them survived to this day and were able to hug each other again - after 75 years. During the Holocaust in 1944...
The Holocaust survivor celebrated her 104th birthday at the Western Wall in Jerusalem last week - and was photographed surrounded by some 400 of her descendants, including her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. 104-year-old Shoshana Ovitz survived a concentration camp...
The principal of a school in Boca Raton, Florida was heavily criticized and fired for denying the historical truth of the Holocaust. Writes about this Daily Beast. William Lutson, director of Spanish River Community High School, was fired after he wrote in an email ...
In Los Angeles, Gennady Bolotsky, 91, a Holocaust survivor, was hit by a car. The man was walking the dog and crossing the pedestrian crossing when the accident happened, writes Fox News. “If you had a soul, you would not leave him lying ...
A Belarusian family, a nurse from Ukraine, emigrant priests in Paris. Present Tense and the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow tell the stories of the Righteous Among the Nations - people who saved Jews during the Holocaust, risking their own lives. “Dear Grisha! I am writing this to you...
Do the winners write history? Not always. The history of life in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw was written by those who lost - at least in the struggle for life. Of the 60 people who collected the so-called "Ringelblum's secret archive", only three survived, but ...
On May 13, 1939, the ship St. Louis with 937 passengers on board sailed from Hamburg, Germany, to Havana. Most of its passengers were Jews who had fled Germany - pogroms, violence, discrimination and camps. But neither in Cuba nor in the USA...
In Chicago on Saturday, May 4, a monument to Adolfas Ramanauskas, an active participant in the anti-Soviet resistance in Lithuania after World War II, was unveiled. The opening ceremony was attended by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevicius along with the daughter and granddaughter of Ramanauskas, writes BBC. Monument…
A two-minute memorial siren sounded on Thursday in Israel in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. At 10:00, all transport stopped in the country, a minute of silence was announced. Immediately after the siren, memorial events dedicated to the memory of 6 million Jews began throughout the country ...