Jewish History

Among the thousands of people buried in a centuries-old Jewish cemetery in the Caribbean are men and women whose relatives would go on to establish some of the first synagogues in the US — in Rhode Island, New York and the US Virgin Islands. But their names may soon be lost to history. Just over

Berlin (dpa) – A 16th century tapestry taken by a US soldier at the end of the Second World War from Adolf Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest mountain retreat has been returned to the southern German state of Bavaria. US Army Lieutenant Colonel Paul Danahy’s daughter Cathy Hinz handed the wool-knitted tapestry to the Bavarian National Museum

Amsterdam (dpa) – The wartime arrest of Anne Frank, the Jewish teenager who wrote one of the world’s best known diaries, may not have been as a result of betrayal as previously thought, a new study has suggested. Researchers at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam say the annex where she was hiding with her

Author Elizabeth Bettina wrote her book, I t Happened in Italy, to highlight “the goodness” of the Italian people in protecting Jews during the Holocaust. Photo courtesy Elizabeth Bettina Hadassah members serving on the program committee included, from left, Judy Tabak, Judi Harrison, Aimee Braverman, Judy Slutzky, and Rena Kallman. Photo by Debra Rubin On

Rome (dpa) – Giulia Spizzichino, one of Rome’s last Holocaust survivors and the woman who helped bring Nazi criminal Erich Priebke to justice, died overnight aged 90, the Jewish Community of Rome said Tuesday. Spizzichino is credited for convincing the Argentine government to allow the extradition of Priebke to Italy, where he was tried and

‘Not one’ expert she interviewed knew of Caribbean Jewish victims, says Jamaican author, but that didn’t stop community from raising international funds for monument By Julie Masis More than 70 years after the end of World War II, a small South American country erected its first Holocaust memorial. Over 100 Jewish names were engraved on