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      Ukrainian refugees arrive at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland. (Photo/Eyal Warsavsky for Jewish Federations of North America)

      Local Voice

      Our recent mission to Poland is a Passover story and call to action

      If you had 30 minutes to decide whether to leave your whole life behind, what would you do? What items would you take? So many of the refugees from…
      By Joy Sisisky, Arthur Slepian Apr 7, 2022
      Chinese diplomat Feng Shan Ho, seen here in China in 1947, is one of many foreign diplomats who helped Jews escape the Holocaust.

      Bay Area

      Righteous diplomats of the Holocaust honored in San Jose exhibit

      Visitors to San Jose’s Martin Luther King Jr. library in April will be greeted by more than stacks of books. The library is hosting a traveling exhibit…
      By Maya Mirsky Mar 31, 2022
      Dutch Reformed Church pastor Leendert Overduin is recognized by Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous Among the Nations.

      Education

      Palo Alto teen essay contest honors Dutch pastor who saved Jews

      A Palo Alto nonprofit is shining a light on a forgotten hero of the Holocaust: Dutch Reformed Church pastor Leendert Overduin. And in honor of Yom…
      By Larry Sokoloff Mar 30, 2022
      A view of the memorial, on the site of a mass killing of Jews by Nazis during WWII, a day after it was damaged in a Russian shelling, at the entrance of the Drobitsky Yar Holocaust memorial complex on the eastern outskirts of Kharkiv, Mar. 27, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Sergey Bobok-AFP via Getty Images)

      World

      Ukrainian Holocaust memorial damaged by Russian spelling

      A memorial to Jews murdered during the Holocaust near Kharkiv was damaged by Russian shelling Saturday, according to Ukraine’s government. Photos from the…
      By Shira Hanau, JTA Mar 29, 2022
      Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shared his family's history during a wide-ranging interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria, March 21, 2022. (Screenshot)

      World

      Zelensky offers new details about his family’s Holocaust history

      Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky‘s great-grandparents died when the Nazis burned their village, he said in an interview on CNN Monday. Speaking…
      By Philissa Cramer, JTA Mar 23, 2022
      Borys Romanchenko at the former Buchenwald concentration camp. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation)

      World

      Ukrainian Holocaust survivor, 96, killed by Russian strike

      Borys Romanchenko, a 96-year-old non-Jewish Holocaust survivor who lived through four different Nazi concentration camps, was killed Friday in a Russian…
      By Gabe Friedman, JTA Mar 22, 2022
      Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses Israel through the Knesset's dedicated channel, March 20, 2022. (Screenshot)

      Israel

      In appeal to Israel, Zelensky invokes Holocaust and the ‘final solution’

      In a searing 12-minute speech addressing the “people of Israel,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky likened the “final solution” the Nazis sought to…
      By Ron Kampeas, JTA Mar 21, 2022
      Irish author John Boyne's "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" has been heavily criticized by Holocaust historians and educators in the years since its release. (Paul Faith - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images)

      Books

      Children's Holocaust novel decried for inaccuracies is getting a sequel

      “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,” a best-selling children’s novel that the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum has said “should be avoided by anyone who studies…
      By Andrew Lapin, JTA Mar 16, 2022
      Story Project member Peter Krohn speaks to Wheatland students about his family's experience in the Holocaust. (Photo/Gabe Stutman)

      Northern California

      Teens from viral swastika photo face Holocaust survivor families

      “It was a long walk from the car.” That’s how the mom of a Wheatland High School student described returning to campus on March 8 with her son for the…
      By Gabe Stutman Mar 14, 2022
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