SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– On Sunday, April 19, at 1:30 p.m., the Jewish Federation of San Diego County will present a special Holocaust commemoration (Yom HaShoah) program. The theme of this year’s annual commemoration is: From Auschwitz to Activism – 70 Years on From the Holocaust. The event will be held at the Lawrence Family […]
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NEW YORK (Press Release)- The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) mourns the loss of Dr. Leon Bass, a true American hero who turned his personal and life-altering experience as a soldier during World War II into an opportunity to educate and inspire action in others. Dr. Bass, who lived outside Philadelphia, died on March 28 at the age
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International, Jewish History, Obituaries & memorials, USAAMSTERDAM (WJC)–According to new research Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who kept a diary about her life in Amsterdam hiding from the Nazis, died earlier in the Nazi camp Bergen-Belsen than previously believed. The conclusion was published on 31 March, the 70th anniversary of the official date of the deaths of Anne and her sister Margot that was set
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Jewish HistoryNEW YORK (Press Release) — The total number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States increased by 21 percent in 2014 in a year marked by a violent anti-Semitic shooting attack targeting Jewish community buildings in Kansas and anti-Jewish expressions linked to the war in Gaza. The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, issued today,
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MADRID (WJC) –Spain’s Congress adopted a bill granting Spanish citizenship to the descendants of Jewish families expelled from the country in 1492, in a gesture of reconciliation. Legislators approved the new law in a session on Wednesday, ahead of a vote in the Senate, the upper house of parliament. the law is expected to come
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EDIRNE, Turkey (WJC)–The deputy CEO of the World Jewish Congress, Maram Stern, was in Turkey this week to take part in the re-opening ceremony of the Great Synagogue of Edirne, which was restored for $2.5 million and is the first synagogue to open in Turkey in two generations. Guest of honor at the ceremony was
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Jewish History, Middle EastBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — After this website published a news article headlined “A Tale of Two Holocaust Survivors” on March 17, Tomi Reichental, who was one of the two men mentioned in the story and who is 80, contacted me by email from his home in Ireland and said he would like
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International, Jewish History, USA
An Improbable Journey: A True Story of Courage and Survival During World War II by Susan Schenkel, Ph.D; ISBN 978-0-9894377-2-1, 183 pages, $12.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – After her mother’s death, author Susan Schenkel decided to research the lives that her parents, by then both deceased, had led during World War II
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish HistoryBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Peter Kubicek is an email friend of mine who I have known for about ten years now. He lives in New York and I live in Taiwan but we meet often online to chat about current events and Jewish history, especially the Holocaust. Kubicek is a Holocaust survivor,
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– On April 13, 2015 various theaters, cultural organizations and memorial institutions across the country will unite to honor victims of the Holocaust by joining in Remembrance Readings for Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah). This inaugural event is led by theaters from San Diego, including the La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, North Coast
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Jewish History, San Diego CalendarTHESSALONIKI, Greece (WJC)– This city remembered its nearly 50,000 Jews sent to Nazi death camps during World War II. A memorial marking the 72nd anniversary of the roundup and deportation of Thessaloniki Jews was held Saturday, ahead of March 15th, the day when the first Jewish convoy left the city. Participants placed flowers on train tracks where
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Some 20 years ago, Brian Schottlaender was serving as an associate librarian for collection services at UCLA, when Doug Greenberg invited him to visit a movie studio lot in Burbank. Greenberg took him to the trailers which then were housing the interviews that volunteers had videotaped with survivors of the
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationEditor, San Diego Jewish World As we prepare for the annual Holocaust commemoration on April 19th, we are reaching out to ask for your help. We are searching for names of local Holocaust Survivors as well as those who have passed away in this last year. Although we work closely with the New Life Club,
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Jewish History, San Diego Calendar, San Diego CountyBy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO –– Esther’s Children: A Portrait of Iranian Jews edited by Houman Sarshar, published by the Center for Iranian Oral Jewish History, 2005, is a large book which opens with a three page foldout of the timeline of significant events in Iranian-Jewish History. It is a history which begins in 539 BCE
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