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·Jun 1

Saved from the Nazis by a Dying Man

By the time Sheila Bernard was six years old, she had taken cover from bombs at the start of World War II and hidden for short periods in a closet, the roof of a stable, bushes in a field, and the attic of the building where her mother was forced…

Holocaust

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Saved from the Nazis by a Dying Man
Saved from the Nazis by a Dying Man
Holocaust

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Memory & Action

·May 10

James McDonald Warned the World about the Nazi Threat to Jews

He Later Supported Israel as a Permanent Safe Haven — On a television news program in May 1952, James G. McDonald faced tough questions about a nascent country: the State of Israel. “As a supporter of this human experiment, you, yourself, are still confident it is going to work out satisfactorily?” asked journalist William Bradford Huie on Longines Chronoscope. Four…

Holocaust

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James McDonald Warned the World about the Nazi Threat to Jews
James McDonald Warned the World about the Nazi Threat to Jews
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·May 8

The Exodus Flag: A Symbol of the Plight of Jewish Displaced Persons

Before being forced to disembark the SS Exodus 1947, Mike Weiss removed the Zionist flag that had flown from the ship’s mast as it approached the shores of Mandatory Palestine, which was under British rule.

Holocaust

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The Exodus Flag: A Symbol of the Plight of Jewish Displaced Persons
The Exodus Flag: A Symbol of the Plight of Jewish Displaced Persons
Holocaust

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·Mar 31

From Ghetto to Concentration Camp, this Artist Never Stopped Drawing

From a young age, Jewish artist Halina Olomucki was constantly drawing the world around her. So when she and her family were forced into the Warsaw ghetto in 1940, Halina began to record daily life there through her art. “My job was simply to … draw what was happening,” said…

Holocaust

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From Ghetto to Concentration Camp, this Artist Never Stopped Drawing
From Ghetto to Concentration Camp, this Artist Never Stopped Drawing
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·Mar 14

How the Earthquake Compounded Syrians’ Trauma, While the World Stood By

February’s massive earthquake brought already grievous suffering to a new level in northwest Syria, an area held by the opposition to Bashar al-Assad’s government and under constant attack. In that region of four to six million people, the majority of whom have fled the Assad regime, rescuers could do little…

Genocide Prevention

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How the Earthquake Compounded Syrians’ Trauma, While the World Stood By
How the Earthquake Compounded Syrians’ Trauma, While the World Stood By
Genocide Prevention

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Memory & Action

·Mar 3

How Jewish Holocaust Survivors Celebrated Purim

Purim, a Jewish holiday observed for centuries, is a day for joyful celebrations and fun traditions such as sharing sweets, performing skits in costume, and reenacting the biblical story that Purim is based on. The villain of that story, Haman, had persuaded the king to wipe out the Jews of…

Purim

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How Jewish Holocaust Survivors Celebrated Purim
How Jewish Holocaust Survivors Celebrated Purim
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·Feb 22

Putin and a Tale of Two Photos

Everyone’s favorite analogy is back (as if it ever went away). To cast yourself as an innocent victim, just label your enemies Nazis. …

Russia Ukraine War

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Putin and a Tale of Two Photos
Putin and a Tale of Two Photos
Russia Ukraine War

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·Feb 17

Indelible Insights from American Presidents, Carved in Stone

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, is at once a stirring work of art and a powerful call to conscience. Words are central to this experience and many of them are integrated into the architectural design of the building. Among the many notable figures whose quotes are…

Holocaust

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Indelible Insights from American Presidents, Carved in Stone
Indelible Insights from American Presidents, Carved in Stone
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·Feb 1

Through Lithuania, Russia, Japan, and China, a Family Stayed Together and Survived the Holocaust

Abraham and Masza Swislocki, a writer and an industrial chemist, had a son, Norbert, in 1936. Family photographs from his early years show smiling faces during a trip to the beach. But the charred edge of those photos belie a change in their fates. When Nazi Germany invaded Poland in…

Holocaust

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Through Lithuania, Russia, Japan, and China, a Family Stayed Together and Survived the Holocaust
Through Lithuania, Russia, Japan, and China, a Family Stayed Together and Survived the Holocaust
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·Jan 30

Desperate to Flee the Nazis, Jewish Refugees Escape Europe on a Rickety Steamboat, Survive a Shipwreck

In May 1940, the Pentcho, a paddlewheel steamboat, departed from the Danube River in Bratislava, present-day Slovakia. One of the passengers was 18-year-old Karl Schwarz. Originally from Vienna, he fled Austria after Nazi Germany annexed the country in 1938. He found work in a machine shop in Bratislava and became…

Evidence

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Desperate to Flee the Nazis, Jewish Refugees Escape Europe on a Rickety Steamboat, Survive a…
Desperate to Flee the Nazis, Jewish Refugees Escape Europe on a Rickety Steamboat, Survive a…
Evidence

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