Jonathan Glazer gets another serve
March 18, 2024 by George Foster
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Australian Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors & Descendants could not let Jonathan Glazer’s prepared Oscar speech pass by without its comment. Read more
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
January 28, 2024 by J-Wire Newsdesk
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A message from the Leader of the Opposition, Peter Dutton. Read more
Red Cross finds little sympathy among Israelis amid accusations of ineptitude, bias
December 28, 2023 by David Isaac
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“Humanitarianism,” “compassion,” “neutrality”—these are the words the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) would like linked to its name. Read more
Holocaust, Hollywood, homeless: The incredible life – and bizarre death – of an Aussie rolling stone
December 25, 2023 by Dan Goldberg
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Burying a complete stranger – let alone a child survivor of the Holocaust – was not on the itinerary for a group of Jewish Sydneysiders holidaying this week on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. Read more
Indigenous Friends of Israel slams The Greens
Indigenous Friends of Israel founders Norman and Barbara Miller condemn the ignorance, racism, and antisemitism of the Greens MPs in the Australian Senate in recent weeks and of the Greens’ mayoral candidate for Brisbane, Jonathan Sriranganathan. Read more
Neighbours ‘stunned’ after ex-SS soldier found living in sleepy English suburb
A British newspaper has revealed the hidden past of a 97-year-old gardening enthusiast living in a quiet Nottingham suburb, once a member of Hitler’s notorious Waffen SS Galizien. Read more
A letter from survivors
November 9, 2023 by J-Wire Newsdesk
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We, the undersigned Holocaust survivors, are the last witnesses to the unspeakable horrors of the Nazi regime. Read more
Letter shows Pope Pius XII likely knew of Nazi crimes
Newly discovered correspondence suggests that World War II-era Pope Pius XII had detailed information from a trusted German Jesuit that up to 6,000 Jews and Poles were being gassed each day in German-occupied Poland. Read more
Jemima Montag wins world silver medal
August 21, 2023 by AAP
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Drawing strength and inspiration from her late grandmother, who was a Holocaust survivor, Melbourne walker Jemima Montag has dug deep to claim the 20km silver medal at the world championships in Budapest. Read more
Yad Vashem: Polish parliamentarian’s effort to silence historian ‘a new low’
A member of the Polish parliament allegedly assaulted a Polish-Canadian historian on May 31 who suggested that Poland was complicit in Nazi atrocities. Read more
The Holocaust and the Australian Aboriginal response
April 13, 2023 by J-Wire News Service
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Biographer Barbara Miller has published a handbook online focusing on Australia’s response to the events leading up to and during the Holocaust. Read more
Labor to tackle antisemitism and to improve Holocaust education in NSW schools
March 15, 2023 by J-Wire Newsdesk
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If Labor wins next week’s NSW Government election, it will instigate new measures to tackle the concerning rise in religious bullying across NSW schools, including a proposed landmark partnership agreement with faith communities. Read more
Yad Vashem-sponsored symphony celebrates Japanese diplomat who saved Jews during the Holocaust
March 10, 2023 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
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Samurai warriors live by the moral code bushido, or “way of the warrior.” Read more
Shabbat Tetzaveh & Zachor: Amelek
March 2, 2023 by Jeremy Rosen
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The Shabbat before Purim is always called Shabbat Zachor, the Shabbat when we remember. Read more
Majority of Dutch adults don’t know the Holocaust occurred in the Netherlands, study finds
The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) on Wednesday released a new study which exposed a disturbing lack of awareness of key historical facts about the Holocaust and the Netherlands’ own connection to Holocaust history. Read more
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
January 27, 2023 by J-Wire Newsdesk
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese send a video message on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read more
South African documentary on Holocaust survivor
January 27, 2023 by J-Wire Newsdesk
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The Ritz Cinemas, Sydney and Classic Cinemas, Melbourne, will present a Q&A screening of the deeply moving documentary I AM HERE. Read more
Holocaust documentary asks why Lithuania honours villains as heroes
January 15, 2023 by Alan Zeitlin
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Grant Gochin had seen documentation of Jonas Noreika’s signature ordering the construction of a ghetto to confine Lithuanian Jews who would be brutally shot to death. Read more
Whoopi Goldberg revisits controversial Shoah remarks
“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg appeared to double down on her controversial Holocaust comments that earned her a suspension from the show in February. Read more
Concert featuring Holocaust songs to perform at Carnegie Hall
December 27, 2022 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
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The day Elie Wiesel died, composer and music producer, Ira Antelis, said something came over him. Read more
Australia: The Unpromised Land
November 23, 2022 by Eli Rabinowitz
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Earlier this month, the story of a plan to settle 125,000 victims of the Holocaust in Australia was told during Holocaust Education Week in Toronto, Canada. Read more
Abbas takes back comments accusing Israel of committing ‘50 Holocausts’
Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas has taken back comments made in Germany on Tuesday accusing Israel of committing “50 Holocausts” against the Palestinians. Read more
Milan honoured for helping to save Jews from Nazi concentration camps
The city of Milan, Italy, has been named an honorary member of the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation (IRWF) in recognition of its residents’ efforts to help rescue Jews from Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. Read more
TPS exclusive: PA source states Mahmoud Abbas’ time as its leader may be numbered after his Holocaust comments
August 18, 2022 by Baruch Yedid - TPS
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A source in the Palestinian Authority (PA) told TPS on Wednesday that the “unfortunate” words of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (also known as Abu Mazen) accusing Israel of committing “50 holocausts” against Palestinians were a self-inflicted wound for international public opinion toward the Palestinian cause. Read more
Why the world won’t care about Abbas’s ‘Holocaust’ lie
August 18, 2022 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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There’s something almost pathetic about the outrage generated after the latest comments by Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. Read more
Grandmother with Jemima on Gold medal-winning walk
August 7, 2022 by AAP
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When Jemima Montag’s bracelet clinked against her wrist as she claimed 10,000m race walk gold, she could feel her late grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, there with her. Read more
Bob Katter invokes the Holocaust in defending the Manly 7
July 29, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
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Independent Queensland MP Bob Katter has defended the seven Manly rugby league players who refused to play in a strip displaying colours od the LGBT rainbow flag on religious and personal grounds. Read more
Renovation work in Poland finds 60 Jewish tombstones near old Gestapo building
Dozens of Jewish tombstones were discovered this week in the Polish town of Radzyń Podlaski (also known as Radin), about 35 miles from Lublin, near a building that had been used as headquarters for the Gestapo during the years of World War II and the Holocaust. Read more
A talk with God about the Holocaust
May 1, 2022 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
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For some, the issue never fades from memory. Menachem Rosensaft was born in 1948 in Bergen-Belsen, a Nazi concentration camp turned into a displaced persons camp after the war. Read more
March of the Living resumes in person with only eight Holocaust survivors
The International March of the Living will resume in person for the first time in two years but with a reduced capacity, due to Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, and only eight Holocaust survivors participating. Read more