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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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