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On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, New Partnership Will Preserve Legacies

By Heidi Gantwerk SAN DIEGO — On Friday, as we marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jewish Federation of San Diego County has an eye toward the future. We are proud and excited to announce a new partnership with San Diego’s local group of Holocaust Survivors, the New Life Club, on several important care and legacy […]

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Holocaust Survivors Use Artificial Intelligence to Keep Stories Alive

Published by Reuters UK By Rami Amichay BEIT SHEMESH, Israel (Reuters) – Ehudith Bracha Serchook narrowly escaped death when her family fled Nazi-allied forces storming the Crimean city of Odesa in 1941, saved only by a lost sandal which made her miss her place on a passenger ship shortly before it was bombed. A lifetime

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Local Group of Holocaust Survivors and Federation Look to Build Community’s First Public Holocaust Monument and Memorial

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — As Jewish Federation of San Diego County marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, it does so with an eye toward the future: The Federation is now partnering with San Diego’s local group of Holocaust Survivors, the New Life Club, on several exciting care and legacy initiatives. The New

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County Supervisors Approve & Help Finance Holocaust Remembrance Exhibit

SAN DIEGO – The San Diego County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, Jan. 24, declared that day to be Holocaust Remembrance Day in San Diego County – three days before this coming Friday’s commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, coinciding with the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in 1945. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Holocaust Refuge at Fort Ontario, New York, Recalled

President Franklin D. Roosevelt was too concerned about negative public opinion to take the leadership on finding refuge in the United States for European Jewry during the early years of the Holocaust, scholar Lawrence Baron told a bruncheon audience at Tifereth Israel Synagogue on Sunday. [Donald H. Harrison]

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County Supervisors to Vote Jan. 24 on Funding Holocaust Exhibit

“The exhibit … aims to combat bigotry and hate by investing in greater education and understanding of the history of hate and racism towards the Jewish community and other victims of the Holocaust,” Fletcher continued.  “The United States Institute of Peace emphasizes the role that memorialization plays in reconstructing social fabric and relations following conflict.  It is important that the initiative is led by those with personal connections to the Holocaust, as well as with the San Diego community, to encourage authentic representation and meaningful engagement.” [Donald H. Harrison]

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Six Remaining Holocaust Presentations in UCSD Library Series

Beginning at 5 p.m. tonight, there will be six presentations in UCSD Library’s Holocaust Living History Workshop series, an education and outreach program cosponsored by the Jewish Studies program that aims to preserve the memories of the victims and survivors of the Holocaust.   [Press Release]

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Where’s the Outrage Over Biden Comparing Illegal Immigrants to Holocaust Victims?

(JNS) After two years of pointedly ignoring a problem largely of his own making, President Joe Biden finally made a brief visit to the U.S. southern border in El Paso, Texas. While there, however, he saw little of the human cost of the catastrophe, as he didn’t meet or see any of the illegal immigrants

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Beth Israel Lecture to Cover ‘Antisemitism in Visual Art Since the Middle Ages’

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — On Wednesday, January 18, from 7-8 p.m., the Congregation Beth Israel Men’s Club Speaker Forum presents, “Antisemitism in Visual Art Since the Middle Ages,” a lecture by Claudia Hercman. Hercman was born and raised in Buenos Aires, within the Argentinian Jewish community. She is a tour guide and translator. She

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Postwar Encounters with the Holocaust

My friend Susan Ferraro, who lives in a rural part of Northern California. tells me that since about the age of 7, she had fantasized about becoming a Jew. It started, she said, when she read Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl. As children often do, she imagined herself invulnerable; death being something that unfortunately happened to other people. If she had been born Jewish, and living at that time, she could have prevented those Nazis from hurting Anne and her family and those hidden with them in the secret annex. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Israel Greenlights Project to Document Holocaust Survivors’ Testimonies

(JNS) Israel on Sunday approved a proposal to allocate 3.5 million shekels ($1 million) toward documenting the testimony of Holocaust survivors worldwide. Addressing the final weekly Cabinet meeting of his government, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said, “Ten years ago, when I was finance minister, I was the driving force behind the decision to increase

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