On October 21-23, Minsk hosts funeral events, international scientific conferences and screenings of documentaries dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the destruction of the Minsk ghetto. Before World War II, about 900 thousand Jews lived in Belarus. During the years of occupation, the Nazis destroyed about 800 thousand Belarusian ...
In Israel, 93-year-old Tova Ringer received the title of Miss Holocaust Survivor. The annual beauty pageant for women Holocaust survivors was held in Haifa on Sunday 14 October. The organizers of the event consider it to be the main goal of making women who have gone through the horrors of Nazi persecution smile and giving ...
A 90-year-old Holocaust survivor died while walking in Brooklyn after being hit by a car. The incident took place on January 20 on Ralph Avenue at about 19:24, writes Brooklyn.news12. Nissen Krakinowski, 90, was hit by a car as he crossed the street on his way back from a synagogue. The man received ...
On June 28, during a visit to Israel, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, visited the grave of his great-grandmother buried in Jerusalem, Princess Alice, who was honored by Israel for sheltering Jews in her palace in Nazi-occupied Greece during the Holocaust. ForumDaily tells a story ...
American journalist Sylvia Foti criticized Lithuania for honoring her grandfather, who participated in the extermination of Jews during World War II. She wrote an article about this in Salon. As Lenta.ru writes, the journalist was going to write a book about her grandfather, whom she...
The family of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who died in the Holocaust, tried to emigrate to the United States and then Cuba, but was unable to do so due to America's restrictive immigration policies and the outbreak of World War II. This is evidenced by new research, writes NBC ...
The lower house of the Polish parliament (Seim) has abolished criminal punishment for publicly accusing the Polish nation of involvement in the Holocaust, writes TASS. The changes were supported by 288 deputies, 25 opposed, 5 abstained. Polish President Andrzej Dud approved amendments to the law, said the head of his ...
At the age of 95, Jena Tergel died, who spent 6 years of her life in four concentration camps, came out alive from the gas chamber and consoled Anne Frank in the Bergen-Belsen camp, writes Fox News. Tergel saw the horrors of the camps of Plaszow, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Belsen. After…
Researchers have uncovered hidden pages in Anne Frank's diary, which contained risky jokes and her personal reflections on sex and prostitution. Researchers say the girl disguised them with brown paper, apparently fearing that other residents of her military hideout would find ...
Every Sunday Sofia Fikhman visits her friend, whom she lovingly calls Rose. Women who now live in Los Angeles are united by more than just friendship: Sofia and Rosa Nemirovskaya were children in the same ghetto. And they both survived, according to the plot of the publication ...