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May 22, 2024 by J-Wire News Service
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The centrepiece of the new National Library of Israel’s building is The Hugo and Ilona Lowy Main Reading Halls, dedicated on May 16 at a private ceremony attended by Sir Frank Lowy, the Lowy family and invited guests in the presence of the President of the State of Israel, Isaac Herzog. Read more
Nov-21 7:30pm SBS World Movies: The Last Vermeer
While Joseph Piller, a Dutch Jew, was fighting in the Resistance during the Second World War, the debonair art connoisseur Han van Meegeren was selling Dutch art to Hermann Goring and other Nazis. Read more
Dec-29 11:20pm SBS-TV: Uri Geller’s Secret Treasures
Uri Geller, the man who bends spoons, reads minds, and can stop your watch. Read more
Apr-25 11:45pm SBS-TV: Auschwitz – One Day
This documentary tells the story of a typical day in 1944 in the ‘death factory’ at Auschwitz from the viewpoint of victims – but it also allows insights into the mindset of the perpetrators. Read more
