Tag: Holocaust
Huron-Perth educators bring home lessons on hate from Holocaust education tour in Poland
News Local News Two Avon Maitland District School Board educators are using their experiences from a recent Holocaust education tour in Poland offered through the Friends of Simons Wiesenthal Center…
Killed because they were Jewish. Baarn commemorates victims of the Holocaust
Commemorating, that is and remains incredibly important, says Marjolein van Dijk, chairman of the Committee 4 and 5 May. “We notice that children here in Baarn are well informed. “In…
Holocaust memorial vandalized in Helsingborg
Last Friday, the memory of the Holocaust was commemorated all over the world. On Sunday, five quotes carved in stone will be inaugurated at Raul Wallenberg’s memorial site. The stones…
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Germany: the last trial in the history of the Holocaust is about to deliver its verdict
The trial of the “secretary of Stutthof” will undoubtedly be one of the last in the history of the concentration camps, if not the last. At the central office of…
Swedish Dolly searched for her roots – found a Holocaust hero
During the Second World War, up to 500,000 Roma were murdered in the Nazi concentration camps – about a third of the Roma people. Like Jews, Roma were registered in…
Berlin announces new Holocaust compensation deal
Seventy years after the first agreement between West Germany and Israel on the compensation of survivors of the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews of Europe, new support from Berlin was…
C215 facing the ghosts of the Rafle du Vel d’Hiv’
La Rafle du Vel d’Hiv’ is one of the darkest pages in the history of the collaboration. So as not to forget, the Shoah Memorial in Paris asked the famous…
Rachel Jedinak, tireless witness to the Holocaust
Rachel Jedinak was eight years old on July 16, 1942, when the French police arrested her, her older sister and their mother during the great Vel d’Hiv roundup. For twenty-six…
Facial recognition at the service of families of Holocaust victims
An American engineer has voluntarily developed a powerful facial recognition system to identify anonymous victims of the death camps during the Second World War. Free, it is accessible to the…