Museum ready to illuminate millennium-long Jewish history of Poland…write Michele Algerian/JNS.org

Given that half of the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust came from Poland, many descendants of Polish Jews may be surprised to learn about the current hospitable environment for the Jewish population of their ancestors’ country. Read more

Age is no bar to excellence

Following 10 years’ work and 200,000 words, a Holocaust survivor’s unfinished PhD thesis has been recognised by an Adelaide university. Read more

New award for Holocaust stories

The inaugural Rosalind Sharbanee Meyer Writers Award was won by Dr Ross Halpin for his book The Essence of Survival, How Jewish Doctors Survived Auschwitz. Read more

Another obscene Israel analogy…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org

For several decades now, Israel’s enemies have actively and willfully defamed the Jewish state by comparing its actions to the atrocities committed by the worst villains in recent history. Read more

Coming to terms with 6,000,000

The Australasian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS) has launched ‘6 Million Friends’, an innovative social media campaign designed to help people conceptualise the number of Jewish people who died in the Holocaust. Read more

More help for Holocaust survivors

Changes to Claims Conference eligibility guidelines will allow Sydney’s JewishCare to substantially increase the number of home support packages that enables Survivors to remain living in their own homes. Read more

International Holocaust Remembrance Day – UNESCO

Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day,  Yad Vashem has been presented with a Certificate of Recognition by UNESCO marking the inclusion of the Pages of Testimony Memorial Collection in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. Read more

One Button, One Child

Following on the heels of its namesake school in Wellington, New Zealand, Sydney’s Moriah College is collecting 1.5 million buttons in memory of the 1.5 million children who perished in the Holocaust. Read more

Man who sexually assaulted Holocaust survivor sentenced

A Sydney court has sentenced a 39-yr-old man to three to five years’ imprisonment for sexually assaulting a Holocaust survivor. Read more

Video report: Transportable Holocaust exhibition

Sheree and Perry Trotter are evangelical Christians who have created a unique transportable Holocaust exhibition. Read more

Raoul Wallenberg – an honorary Australian

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced that Raoul Wallenberg has been made an honorary Australian citizen. Read more

Bye Bye Joan?

Internationally-renowned Jewish comedienne Joan Rivers may have distanced herself permanently from her Jewish fan base after using a line referring to Germans “pushing Jews into the ovens”. Read more

John Key, the Holocaust and his mother

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has told an Auckland meeting commemorating United Nations Holocaust Memorial Day about his mother’s escape from Nazi Europe. Read more

NZ Prime Minister launches Holocaust project

New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key today will launch a unique, New Zealand-produced artistic educational project, ‘Shadows of Shoah’ at the official Auckland commemoration of the United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Day (UNIHRD)…a move appreciated by Israel’s ambassador to new Zealand. Read more

Jewish History for Years 11 and 12

Masada and the Holocaust will take their place as compulsory subjects for students electing to study Ancient and/or Modern History in Years 11 and 12 in Australian schools. Read more

Award for Wellington Holocaust Centre

The Wellington Holocaust Research and Education Centre has received a a New Zealand Diversity Awards from the Maori King. Read more

Home Support for Survivors

New funding for home services for Holocaust survivors has become available for Sydney’s JewishCare. Read more

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