Majority of Americans Polled Believe Something Like the Holocaust Could Happen Again Julius Berman, President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), announces the release of a comprehensive national survey of Holocaust awareness and knowledge among adults in the United States on the occasion of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). The […]
At 11:55 pm on November 9, 1938, Heinrich Müller, chief of the Gestapo, issued an order to all Gestapo offices that began with the following sentence: “Actions against Jews, especially against their synagogues, will take place throughout the Reich shortly.” This understated language, of course, belies the savagery that befell the Jewish communities of Germany […]
As a young child forced to hide from the Nazis in France, Ora Ninio of Jerusalem – then a little girl called Clair-Clara Ridnik – was told to keep quiet. Now, 70 years later, Ora still does not speak very much, even when she is with friends. But, Ora says, the bright spot in her […]
In May 1943, a young Jewish boy and his parents were taken into hiding on a farm in Poland, after escaping the Siemiatycze Ghetto, ending up in a forest and having no other place to hide. The family that owned the farm eventually hid a total of seven Jews in a succession of bunkers for […]