Jonathan Glazer gets another serve

March 18, 2024 by  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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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

December 11, 2023 by  
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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

December 7, 2023 by  
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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  
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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

September 18, 2023 by  
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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  
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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’

June 1, 2023 by  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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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

January 27, 2023 by  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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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

December 27, 2022 by  
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“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  
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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  
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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’

August 19, 2022 by  
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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

August 19, 2022 by  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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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

June 19, 2022 by  
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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

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

April 7, 2022 by  
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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

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