Schindler’s List Producer Presents Oscar to Yad Vashem

July 27, 2015 On Wednesday, some Holocaust survivors who were on Schindler’s list—the real list—witnessed the movie’s co-producer, Croatian Auschwitz survivor Branko Lustig, honor his 111 countrymen named as Righteous among the Nations by donating his 1994 Oscar to Yad Vashem.

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Syrian Christians Rescued by Jewish Holocaust Survivor

July 20, 2015 Lord George Weidenfeld is repaying a debt of gratitude to Christians who helped him escape the Nazis by facilitating the first of many rescues, bringing 42 Christian families out of Syria. "We have been deeply moved by the plight of Christians in conflict-torn Middle East countries, and we are supporting the transfer of Christian families to safe havens where they can lead normal lives," Weidenfeld told The Times of Israel, after the first transfer of 150 people.

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Polish Jewish Holocaust Hideout Becomes National Monument

July 13, 2015 As anti-Semitism is experiencing an upsurge in Europe, and memories of the horror of the Holocaust fades from people’s mind, Polish officials have registered as a national monument a hideout used by Jewish people during the Holocaust.

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Queen of England Makes First Visit to a Nazi Death Camp

June 29, 2015 The Queen of England completed her state visit of England’s former World War II adversary, Germany, by visiting for the first time the Bergen-Belsen death camp. Prince Philip, 94, also joined her. The Queen was only 19-years- age when the British liberated the camp.

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“Must-See” Film about Holocaust Hero Jan Karski Opens in Jerusalem

June 21, 2015 The Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem presented the first screening outside of Poland of Karski and the Lords of Humanity, a film about the Polish Holocaust hero Jan Karski. As a courier for the Polish underground during World War II, he was assigned to personally deliver his first-hand Holocaust accounts to the leaders of Britain and US, including US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which he did.

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Anonymous Threatens Israel with Cyber Holocaust

April 5, 2015 The hacker-activist group Anonymous has threatened to launch an "electronic holocaust" against Israel on April 7, just nine days before Yom HaShoah (Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day).

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UN General Assembly Holds First Conference on the Global Rise of Anti-Semitism

January 26, 2015 On Thursday, in response to growing global anti-Semitism, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) held its first conference on the rising global tide of anti-Semitism. Included among the speakers was French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy who traced the history of anti-Semitism back to its roots, including the blood libels against the Jews, and the claim of responsibility for the killing of the Messiah (Yeshua–Jesus). He also spoke of the present attacks on Israel in the form of boycotts and how such vindictiveness can affect an entire society.

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The 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz‏: Time to Find a Wise Vision of the Future

January 26, 2015 Tomorrow is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and even now Holocaust survivors and heads of state are gathering in Poland to remember this important day. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous concentration and extermination camp where more than a million Jews, Gypsies, Soviets and Poles were murdered. In fact, in 2010, the Federal Security Service of Russia declassified information that revealed more than four million inmates were killed here. (CNN)

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English Poll Reveals Half of Britons Hold Anti-Semitic Views

January 21, 2015 A poll of 2,230 British Jews by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism (CAA) found that more than half believe that current anti-Semitism echoes that of the 1930s with 45% feeling personally threatened by extreme Islamism, and 58% seeing no future for Jews in Europe.

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The Wannsee Conference: When Mass Murder Turned to Systematic Genocide

January 19, 2015 Tuesday marks the 73rd anniversary of Germany’s infamous Wannsee Conference. January 20, 1942, signaled a turning point from the mass murder of Jews to a systematic genocide of European Jews in the gas chambers of Auschwitz and other death camps. On this day, a group of Germany's political elite met at the Villa Minous, the Nazi SS guest house on the Greater Wannsee lake located in a Berlin suburb, to decide on "the Final Solution to the Jewish question."

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