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Silence is complicity. That is a lesson that has been deeply ingrained in me as far back as I can remember. When my mother was five years old as a little Jewish girl growing up in France during the Holocaust, her parents were forced to Read More …
A woman who spent much of her childhood in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during World War II described her horrific experiences at the hands of the Nazis to students at Stimson Middle School on Wednesday. Marion Blumenthal Lazan, who authored a memoir, Four Perfect Pebbles: Read More …
Residents at Gurwin Jewish-Fay J. Lindner Residences assisted living community honored victims of the Nazi Holocaust with a candle lighting vigil and ceremony on Friday. “International Holocaust Remembrance Day is a time to honor the 6 million Jews who were killed during the Holocaust and Read More …
Michael Weinstock has a packed resume–he was a firefighter who served at Ground Zero, a sex-crimes prosecutor in New York City, and a volunteer who connected an elected official with the descendants of a Jewish Italian family that the assemblyman,had, as a child, helped protect Read More …
There has recently been criticism of the comparison between detention facilities holding immigrant children and concentration camps. I not only agree with the Holocaust analogy but feel it is vitally important to make such analogies as we confront the human rights violations being committed by Read More …
Jud Newborn, a Huntington-based Cinema Arts Centre curator and Holocaust expert, was “deeply moved” to learn he is this year’s Spirit of Anne Frank Human Writes Award honoree. The Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect wants to not “simply promote the story of Anne Frank Read More …