People who search for information about the Holocaust on Facebook will now be prompted to visit a website on curated by the World Jewish Congress and UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Starting today, which is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, users will see a box labeled “Learning About the Holocaust” when they…
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Local Voice
Why we need to commemorate the Shoah twice every year
World Jewry continues to ask “How can we best memorialize the Shoah?” The challenge is fivefold: To honor the Six Million (and many millions of gentile…
Bay Area
Families of Holocaust survivors see historical parallels in the news
For Bay Area residents whose family members survived the Holocaust, the violence staged in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was personal, evoking…
History
Remembering the foreign diplomats who saved Jews during the Holocaust
It was my first assignment as an Israeli diplomat. I had been posted as the deputy consul general at the Israeli Consulate in Shanghai, China. I had known…
Theater
One-man Holocaust play goes online to teach a new generation
Roger Grunwald was on a roll. For years, he had been touring the globe with his Holocaust-themed, one-man, multiple-character play, performing it at…
World
Shadows of the Inquisition at Portugal's first Holocaust museum
Portugal is set to open its first Holocaust museum, built in the northern city of Porto by members of a Jewish community that was founded by descendants…
Politics
AOC and Cruz fight over Holocaust analogies, reflecting wider rift
Ted Cruz and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez engaged in a Twitter beef about the use and misuse of Holocaust analogies. The weekend’s exchange between the…
Honoring the Survivors
Holocaust survivor, 93, recalls horrors — and a new life in Oakland
Part of an ongoing series on Holocaust survivors and partisans in Northern California For historians, Sept. 1, 1939, marks the start of World War II, when…
Books
A harrowing tale of survival wrapped around a love story
Fela Kuvent, born in 1919 in the Polish town of Gostynin, was a smart, vivacious, dark-eyed girl who loved to sing, dance and enjoy life in her Jewish…