Posts tagged Holocaust remembrance
Recognizing The Extraordinary Courage Of Victims And Survivors Of The Holocaust

(ANALYSIS) This past Jan. 27 marked the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. The day designated for this remembrance day is no coincidence. On Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated the biggest Nazi concentration and death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, in then-occupied Poland.

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Defying The Holocaust Didn’t Just Mean Uprising And Revolt: Remembering Jews’ Everyday Resistance

(ANALYSIS) Richard Glazar insisted that no one survived the Holocaust without help. To this Prague-born Jewish survivor, who endured Nazi imprisonment at Treblinka and Theresienstadt, plus years in hiding, it was impossible to persevere without others’ support.

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Decades After War, Bosnian Jews Who Lost Homes, Synagogues Still Await Restitution

Today, more than 70 years after World War II and as the world marks the 18th annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day — 30 years after both the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the end of the Bosnian War — Bosnian Jews are still awaiting restitution for long-gone homes, commercial buildings, places of worship and burial sites.

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