Holocaust history and the lost generation…writes Jerry Amernic
April 8, 2015 by Jerry Amernic
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Years ago, I got the idea for a novel about the last living survivor of the Holocaust. Read more
The Buchenwald Ball released on line
April 7, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
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To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald, the makers of The Buchenwald Ball is being re-released on demand with all proceeds from downloads going towards a new documentary about Holocaust survivor…set in Melbourne’s Holocaust Museum. Read more
It is a long way to the Archibald
March 6, 2015 by Roz Tarszisz
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A chance meeting at a Holocaust museum has resulted in a survivor being the subject of a portrait being entered for this year’s prestigious Archibald Prize.
Remembering Holocaust historian Sir Martin Gilbert and his ‘two Londons’
February 6, 2015 by Jerry Amernic
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As reported yesterday, distinguished Holocaust historian Martin Gilbert has passed away. Fellow author Jerry Armenic knew him and pens some thoughts… Read more
Distinguished author Martin Gilbert passes away
British-Jewish historian Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of United Kingdom prime minister Winston Churchill, has passed away from cancer at 78. Read more
Kiwi educators at Yad Vashem
January 30, 2015 by Michael Kuttner
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A group of twenty New Zealand high school teachers and educators have been attending a course on Holocaust studies at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Read more
Holocaust anniversary acknowledged by Aboriginal community
January 29, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
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The Aboriginal Medical Service in Sydney’s Redfern has acknowledged the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Jews from the Auschwitz death camp. Read more
President Rivlin addresses United Nations
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York…and tells its members “never again”. Read more
A personal account of the liberation of the Bergen concentration camp
January 28, 2015 by
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Lt-Col Leonard Berney RA TD tells J-Wire of his participation and the events surrounding the liberation of the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Read more
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Yad Vashem on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spoke at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem at yesterday’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration. Read more
Learn online about the Holocaust
January 28, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
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To mark the International Holocaust Memorial Day, FutureLearn, a social medialearning platform, has launched free online courses exploring the history and ongoing scholarship of the Holocaust…one created by Tel Aviv University and the other by Yad Vashem. Read more
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, victims and leaders mark 70 years since Auschwitz liberation
More than 300 Holocaust survivors along with world leaders gathered at the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on Tuesday to commemorate the 1.1 million people killed there, as well as the millions of other victims killed during the Holocaust, as part of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read more
Never Again?…writes Emily Gian
January 27, 2015 by Emily Gian
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All four of my grandparents were Holocaust survivors. I heard snippets of their stories my whole life but it was always difficult for me to truly imagine how it all began, how it continued, and how it became the greatest human tragedy of all time. Read more
Those left standing
January 26, 2015 by Roz Tarszisz
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Around 160 Holocaust survivors accompanied by family, friends and carers commemorated 70 years of survival…when survivors were asked to stand only about 80 made their presence felt. Read more
An Australia Day story – friendship triumphs over hate
January 25, 2015 by J-Wire Staff
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Each January 26, Czechoslovakian-born Holocaust survivors Eva Grinston and Ibi Wertheim have celebrated Australia Day as their national holiday and also as an anniversary with deep personal significance. Read more
Museum to Host Holocaust Remembrance Day
January 21, 2015 by Keren Cook
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For the second year Auckland will host the United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read more
Do we need Holocaust Remembrance Day?…asks Ben Cohen
December 23, 2014 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
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Do we need Holocaust Remembrance Day? Read more
Museum ready to illuminate millennium-long Jewish history of Poland…write Michele Algerian/JNS.org
October 29, 2014 by Michele Alperin-JNS.org
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Given that half of the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust came from Poland, many descendants of Polish Jews may be surprised to learn about the current hospitable environment for the Jewish population of their ancestors’ country. Read more
Age is no bar to excellence
October 22, 2014 by Roz Tarszisz
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Following 10 years’ work and 200,000 words, a Holocaust survivor’s unfinished PhD thesis has been recognised by an Adelaide university. Read more
New award for Holocaust stories
October 21, 2014 by Jessica Kostera
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The inaugural Rosalind Sharbanee Meyer Writers Award was won by Dr Ross Halpin for his book The Essence of Survival, How Jewish Doctors Survived Auschwitz. Read more
Another obscene Israel analogy…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org
October 3, 2014 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
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For several decades now, Israel’s enemies have actively and willfully defamed the Jewish state by comparing its actions to the atrocities committed by the worst villains in recent history. Read more
Coming to terms with 6,000,000
July 21, 2014 by
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The Australasian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS) has launched ‘6 Million Friends’, an innovative social media campaign designed to help people conceptualise the number of Jewish people who died in the Holocaust. Read more
More help for Holocaust survivors
February 16, 2014 by Warren Hurst
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Changes to Claims Conference eligibility guidelines will allow Sydney’s JewishCare to substantially increase the number of home support packages that enables Survivors to remain living in their own homes. Read more
International Holocaust Remembrance Day – UNESCO
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yad Vashem has been presented with a Certificate of Recognition by UNESCO marking the inclusion of the Pages of Testimony Memorial Collection in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. Read more
One Button, One Child
July 26, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
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Following on the heels of its namesake school in Wellington, New Zealand, Sydney’s Moriah College is collecting 1.5 million buttons in memory of the 1.5 million children who perished in the Holocaust. Read more
Man who sexually assaulted Holocaust survivor sentenced
May 17, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
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A Sydney court has sentenced a 39-yr-old man to three to five years’ imprisonment for sexually assaulting a Holocaust survivor. Read more
Video report: Transportable Holocaust exhibition
April 28, 2013 by Henry Benjamin
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Sheree and Perry Trotter are evangelical Christians who have created a unique transportable Holocaust exhibition. Read more
Raoul Wallenberg – an honorary Australian
April 15, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced that Raoul Wallenberg has been made an honorary Australian citizen. Read more
Bye Bye Joan?
March 2, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
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Internationally-renowned Jewish comedienne Joan Rivers may have distanced herself permanently from her Jewish fan base after using a line referring to Germans “pushing Jews into the ovens”. Read more
John Key, the Holocaust and his mother
January 28, 2013 by J-Wire Staff
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New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has told an Auckland meeting commemorating United Nations Holocaust Memorial Day about his mother’s escape from Nazi Europe. Read more