Honouring Phil Lamason: a New Zealand memorial with a Jewish resonance

The small New Zealand town of Dannevirke is preparing to honour one of its most remarkable sons, Squadron Leader Phil Lamason, whose forgotten wartime heroism saved the lives of 167 Allied airmen in 1944. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish past

Max Zilberman – a Buchenwald Boy and grateful to The Joint

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Neo-Nazi performed Hitler salute at Buchenwald: on trial

A neo-Nazi in the United Kingdom is on trial for allegedly being part of a banned extremist group that performed a Hitler salute in the Buchenwald concentration camp, reported The Jewish Chronicle. Read more

Jimmy Weldon, a liberator of Buchenwald, has a lot to say on life

Jimmy Weldon, 97, is an American voice actor and ventriloquist known for portraying Yakky Doodle and other Hanna-Barbera characters on “The Yogi Bear Show.” Read more

The Buchenwald Ball released on line

To commemorate the 70^th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald, the makers of The Buchenwald Ball is being re-released on demand with all proceeds from downloads going towards a new documentary about Holocaust survivor…set in Melbourne’s Holocaust Museum. Read more