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... preserving the past to protect the future ... Holocaust Remembrance Day: Remembering the Victims of the Nazi Holocaust The Holocaust is not merely a story of destruction and loss; it is a story of an apathetic world and a few rare individuals of extraordinary courage. It is a remarkable story of the human spirit and the life that flourished before the Holocaust, struggled during its darkest hours, and ultimately prevailed as survivors rebuilt their lives. April 11, 2010 May 1, 2011 April 19, 2012 April 7, 2013 April 27, 2014 April 16, 2015 .

Adopted by the United Nations on October 2005 January 27 of Each Year .

March of the Living: Jews, Write It Down The annual March of the Living between the notorious Auschwitz and Birkenau death camps in Poland.

... preserving the past to protect the future ... Romani Extermination Remembrance Day: Remembering the Romani Victims of the Nazi Holocaust August 2nd of Each Year

Poland, One Year After the Holocaust, Being Involved In the Worst Peacetime Pogrom in 20th-century Europe Jews being buried in Kielce, Poland, in 1946 --one year after the Nazi Holocaust ended, as a result of the Kielce massacre committed by ordinary Polish citizens against their own neighbouring Jews that were able to survive the Holocaust. To squash these revelations, the 2008 Public Prosecutor of Krakow, Poland announced that it will prosecute anyone under a 2006 law prohibiting anyone from asserting that "the Polish nation" was involved in crimes or atrocities committed by Nazis or communists. Yes, facing the truth is not easy for a nation where the Anti-semitism appeared to be part of its fabric. The Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz once said that Poland's Communist rulers fulfilled the dream of Polish nationalists by creating an ethnically pure state. That was in the end Hitler's ultimate dream --that of creating an ethnically "pure" Europe. From: Poland to Prosecute Historian? <mut-gegen-rechte-gewalt.de/eng/news/poland/>

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• March 26, 2013 Rabbi Who Cried to the Jews of Buchenwald: 'You Are Free' of blessed memory died at 95 HERSCHEL SCHACTER, 1917-2013

  
  
  
  

• October 23, 2011 Jerzy Bielecki Dies at 90;   Saved Jewish Woman and Fell in Love in the Auschwitz Camp

  
  
  

• 	May 13, 2011
  	John Demjanjuk Convicted for Role in Nazi Death Camp

  
  
  

• February 19, 2011   Auschwitz Shifts From Memorializing to Teaching For a New Generation .

  
  
  

• January 27, 2011: International Holocaust Remembrance Day Yad Vashem and Google Partner to Preserve and Share Holocaust Archives .

  
  
  

• November 10, 2010: A sickening and disgusting act using the Holocaust and its sacred grounds as a vehicle to commit fraud Part I: Workers at Holocaust Fund Face Fraud Charges Part II: In Brighton Beach, Clues to the Holocaust Fraud Case

  
  
  

• November 5, 2010: Scholars Reconsidering Italy's Treatment of Jews in the Nazi Era

  
  
  
• November 2, 2010:
  

  Holocaust-Era Mass Grave of Murdered Jews Found in Romania

  
  
  

• May 9, 2010   . Questioning the Line of Business, Ethics and Morality of the Adas Israel Congregation of Washington DC, USA In Conjunction With Its Existing Garden of the Righteous

  
  
  

• April 17, 2010    Questioning Dr. Robert Satloff's Drive in Reopening the Khaled Abdul-Wahab Case

  
  
  

• March 29, 2010 From: The United Nations Holocaust Outreach Programme and The Anne Frank Center USA: "The Anne Frank Twitter Campaign"

  
  
• March 13, 2010
  Plaszow Camp Holocaust Monument in Poland Vandalized
  Vandals spray 'Hitler Good' on the Polish Holocaust Monument
  
  
  

  January 11, 2010: Miep Gies of The Netherlands, who helped hide Anne Frank and her family, dies at 100   Of Blessed Memory...

  
  
  

• December 18, 2009 .A sickening Attack on the Memory of the Holocaust: Arbeit Macht Frei sign stolen from Auschwitz

  
  
  

• October 8, 2009 . . . Holocaust Memorial Unveiled in Bucharest, Romania Editor's Critical View on the Memorial Plaque Posted at the Romanian Holocaust Monument A Call for Removing Peter Jacobi's Plaque

  
  

• October 3, 2009 Marek Edelman, Commander in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Dies at 90

  
  

• June 19, 2009   The German Officer Wilhelm (Wilm) Hosenfeld, Who Saved 'The Pianist' Wladyslaw Szpilman from the Holocaust, Honored by Yad Vashem with the "Righteous Among the Nations" Title. From Yad Vashem: Wilhelm (Wilm) Hosenfeld

  
  
• June 4, 2009
  Extent of Nazi Camps Far Greater Than Realized
  Decade-Long Study by Holocaust Museum Scholars Could Alter Public Understanding
  
  

• April 20, 2009: New Findings from Yad Vashem focusing on the various killings of Jews across the former Soviet Union ... New Looks at the Fields of Death for Jews During the Holocaust Years

  
  
  

• February 16, 2009: .Rounding-up of Jews and Foreigners in 1941 Paris, France.    France's highest Court ruled that France bears responsibility for deporting Jews to their deaths in concentration camps during World War II. Northern France was directly occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II while the south of the country was ruled by the Vichy government that collaborated with Adolf Hitler. France's role in the deportation of its Jews was a taboo subject for decades after the war. Most of the deportees later perished at the concentration camp at Auschwitz in modern day Poland. Papon died in February 2007, aged 96, after serving part of his term and then being freed on health grounds. There were approximately 350,000 Jews in France at the time of the country's defeat by Germany in 1940. At least half of those were refugees who had already fled Germany or countries already under Nazi occupation. At least 77,000 Jews were deported to their deaths from French transit camps between 1942 and the end of German occupation in December 1944. Of these, around a third were French citizens and more than 8,000 were children under 13. Source: CNN ===> <cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/02/16/france.holocaust.court/index.html>

  
  
  

• February 5, 2009 Uncovering Lost Path of Dr. Aribert Heim, a Most Wanted Nazi Doctor in Egypt

  
  
  

• January 30, 2009 . . . The German Guest Conductor, Maestro Walter Hilgers (left) Conducted the premiere live-performance in Bucharest, Romania, (with the Romanian National Radio Orchestra) of The Holocaust Exquisite Music of the Romanian Composer Serban Nichifor "Cries from Earth to Heaven" (destined to become the Hymn of the Holocaust) Email for Maestro Hilgers Email for Maestro Nichifor

  
  
  

• Bishop Richard Williamson January 25, 2009 Pope Benedict Lifts Expulsion of Holocaust Denier, Bishop Richard Williamson Quotes from bishop Richard Williamson on the Holocaust: ... I believe there were no gas chambers; ... I believe only up to 300,000 Jews perished in the Nazi concentration camps, instead of 6 million; ... I believe that the historical evidence is hugely against 6 million having been deliberately gassed in gas chambers as a deliberate policy of Adolf Hitler. . Pope Removes Ban on British Holocaust Denier Bishop

  
  
  

• 	December 29, 2008
  	HERMAN ROSENBLAT, Making a Mockery of the Holocaust and its Tragic Legacy through his Fake Memoir "Angel at the Fence: The True Story of a Love That Survived" with the "Angel" being his partner in deceit -- his current wife Roma Radzicki Rosenblat.

  
  
  

• April 9, 2008 Facing the Burden of German History: Report Details Catholic Role in Nazi Abuses Cardinal Karl Lehmann .

  
  

• February 21, 2008 On Eric Saul's ISRAH Institute for the Study of Rescue and Altruism in the Holocaust

  
  

• February 12, 2008 In The News: Poland and its Krakow Church Service: "The Kikes Will Not Continue to Spit on Us."

  
  

• January 29, 2008

  Germany Confronts Holocaust Legacy Anew

  A nation pays more attention than ever to the consequences of its past, and lessons for the future.

  
  

• January 23, 2008

  In Orphans' Twilight, Memories of a Doomed Utopia    From Israel remembering Janusz Korczak

  
  
• January 7, 2008:
  Standing Corrected on the Solly Ganor Case
  
  

• December 31, 2007: .An Open Invitation to Yad Vashem --The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority for Revisiting the Sugihara Story in View of the New Detailed Documentation Coming From Japan

  
  

• September 18, 2007: New Stunning Photos From Auschwitz In the Shadow of Horror, SS Guardians Frolic

  Between savagery and killings, savouring the pleasures of life: Karl Höcker, adjutant to the commandant of Auschwitz, and SS auxiliaries relaxing at a recreation lodge near the camp

  
  
  
• August 8, 2007
  Theodor Criveanu of Romania
  Awarded Posthumously by Yad Vashem
  The "Righteous Among the Nations" Title
  
  
• August 7, 2007
  

  In Memoriam .Preeminent Holocaust Scholar

  
  
• June 25, 2007
  In Poland, a Museum to Show Poland's Jewish History
  
  

• 		June 18, 2007
  		Exquisite Holocaust Remembrance Music (destined to become the Hymn of the Holocaust ) by Serban Nichifor of Romania

  
  
• June 4, 2007
  
  .The 1943 Diary of 14-year-old Jewish girl, Rutka Laskier,
  Killed at Auschwitz, Unveiled at Yad Vashem
  
  
  

• Unidentified people desecrated the Holocaust monument in Odessa, Ukraine late Sunday, February 18, 2007 with red swastikas and with an inscription: "Congratulations on the Holocaust."

  
  
  

• January 31, 2007

  Khaled Abdelwahhab of Tunisia First Arab Nominated for the "Righteous Among the Nations" Holocaust Honor

  
  
• January 25, 2007
  Letters of Anne Frank's Father, Otto Frank, Discovered
  
  

• December 19, 2006
  	Dennis Prager, a Dogmatic Racist Religious Moralist, Has Joined The United States Holocaust Memorial Council

  
  
• December 6, 2006
  Unscrambling the History of a Nazi Camp in Croatia
  Who Was Killed and by Whom Still Unsettles Croats and Serbs
  
• November 7, 2006
  Eight People, Products of the Lebensborn Program to Propagate Aryan Traits, Met to Exchange Their Stories
  
  

• September 19, 2006 Simon Glasberg, 81, of Ottawa and Sister Hilda Shlick, 75, from Ashdod, Israel Born in Romania Separated by Holocaust Reunite after 65 years at Yad Vashem

  
  
• August 23, 2006:
  Norway Inaugurates Holocaust Museum in Villa of Wartime 'traitor' Quisling
  
  

  August 1, 2006 Responding to Jonathan Tilove's Public Attack on Our Critical Studies, in General, and on the Solly Ganor's Case of Credibility and Deceit, in Particular

  
  

• July 28, 2006 Former Chief Rabbi of Romania, Alexander Safran dies at 95 A Biographical sketch: Chief Rabbi of Romania from 1940 to 1947

  
  

  June 7, 2006 C.I.A. Knew Where Eichmann Was Hiding, Documents Show

• May 29, 2006
  German Pope Benedict XVI Confronts the Nazi Past at Auschwitz
  

  The Pope did not acknowledge a role of German people or the Church in the Nazi crimes.

• May 18, 2006
  New Nazi Files on Holocaust to Be Opened
  
  • From Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May. 14, 2006
    Holocaust Researchers Pressing for Opening of Vast Storehouse of Nazi Files
    

  May 8, 2006 Rebuking Dr. Lance Hill's Trivialization of the Holocaust and its Tragic Legacy

  April 20, 2006

  Germany Agrees to Open Archive of Holocaust Documents

  A vast trove of information will shed light on the fate of victims of the Nazis

  March 11, 2006

  Rare Archive Documenting Nazi Labor Camps on View at The New York Public Library (from March 7, 2006 through June 17, 2006) Bringing One Woman's Holocaust Experience to Life A time capsule from the Nazi Labor camps, carefully preserved

• February 3, 2006 Editor's Critical Assessment On the Current Mainstream Definitions and Usage of the Word 'Holocaust

  
  
• January 3, 2006:
  A New Hungarian movie "Fateless" on the Holocaust, with a Nobel Prize winner's screenplay,
  based on Imre Kertész's semiautobiographical novel "Fateless"
  
  

  December 12, 2005 Martha and Rev. Waitstill Sharp, of Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA   --new Americans awarded with the "Righteous Among Nations" title

• October 26, 2005:
  Spanish Police Say 40-Year Manhunt Is Zeroing In on Aribert Heim, Nazi Concentration Camp Doctor
  
• September 27, 2005:
  U.S. to Apologize for Gold Train Plunder
  The United States Government has agreed to publicly apologize to Hungarian Holocaust survivors
  whose possessions were plundered by the Nazis and later seized by American soldiers.
  
  • United States Settles Gold Train Case
    
• September 24, 2005:
  Nazi-hunter Wiesenthal laid to rest
  in Herzliya, Israel on Sept. 23, 2005l
  

  No members of the Israeli Cabinet attended the funeral -- a situation that did not go unnoticed...

  "There's a lot of people who should have been here," said Shevach Weiss, a Holocaust survivor who heads the board of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem Simon Wiesenthal (1908-2005) of Blessed Memory [Editor's Condolences to the Wiesenthal Family]

September 23, 2005 Mauthausen Holocaust Survivor Tibor Rubin, born in Hungary, Receives U.S. Medal of Honor    Tibor Rubin kept his promise to join the U.S. Army after American troops freed him from the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria during World War II. A Biographical sketch of Corporal Tibor Rubin, Korean War Veteran

+Enlarge Image September 20, 2005: Simon Wiesenthal, Who Helped Hunt Nazis After War, Dies at 96; Tirelessly Pursued Nazi Fugitives Holocaust Survivor Simon Wiesenthal Dies at 96 An Obituary of Simon Wiesenthal by Hella Pick

• August 24, 2005  . Sponsored by Romania to Open on September 11, 2005, its Frst, Fully Functional Holocaust Memorial Museum (with Oliver Lustig as one of its expected speakers)

August 12, 2005 Responding to Rabbi Abraham Cooper's Bizarre Stab-in-the-Back Attack On Us Under the Umbrella of Attacking an "Agenda of Hatred"and Opposing Rabbi Cooper's Drive in Censoring the Internet

• From Poland (BBC, June 30, 2005):
  Warsaw's Jewish Heritage Remembered
  
• From BBC: (May 12, 2005):
  Spanish Nazi camp 'survivor' Enric Marco --an Impostor and a Liar
  
  • Enric Marco, head of a Spanish association of Nazi concentration camp victims, exposed as a Holocaust survivor impostor and liar, and his 1978 book "Memories of Hell" as a fictional autobiographical account of suffering in Germany's Flossenburg concentration camp. [May 12, 2005]
    

	[May 9, 2005 ] Remembering the Unimaginable in Berlin A Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

May 1, 2005 Dachau Survivors Mark the 60th Anniversary of the Camp's Liberation   ( <----- Polish former inmates of the camp carry a wreath.)

• April 14, 2005
  For Betrayal by Swiss Bank and Nazis, $21.8 Million Award
  
• April 11, 2005
  Jewish-LDS Disagreement Over Baptism for the Dead Resolved
  
• April 11, 2005
  Dutch Prime Minister Condemns Officials' Holocaust Complicity
  
• April 11, 2005
  Israel Recognises German Maj Karl Plagge as 'New Schindler'
  
  • Major Karl Plagge Honored by Yad Vashem
    
• April 11, 2005
  Nazi Horrors at Buchenwald Recalled on Anniversary
  
  • Buchenwald Holocaust Survivors Gather at Nazi Camp
    
• April 8, 2005
  
  
  Baptisms for Dead Jews Continue Despite Agreement to the Contrary
  

  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints invited Jewish leaders to Salt Lake, after allegations the LDS Church continues to perform proxy baptisms for Jews and holocaust victims.    A 1995 agreement signed by Jewish leaders and the LDS Church called for a stop to the practice, most commonly known as "baptism for the dead." Members of the Jewish community claim the LDS Church has violated this agreement.    Church officials would not comment yet, but say, "We are looking forward to discussion with our Jewish guests." --Kim Farah, LDS Church spokesperson [ABC News, April 8, 2005

  
  
• April 8, 2005
  Liberation of Buchenwald to be marked on Sunday, April 10, 2005
  Germany to remember victims of Nazi camp freed by American troops in 1945
  
  • Buchenwald Survivors to Mark 60th Anniversary in Germany
    
• April 5, 2005
  FINAL  YAD VASHEM   DISPOSITION  POSTED  ON THE BINGHAM IV CASE
  
  
• April 4, 2005
  Half-Century Later, a New Look at Argentine-Nazi Ties
  
  
• March 28, 2005
  60 Years Later, Honoring the German Army Maj. Karl Plagge, an Unlikely Hero of the Holocaust
  
• March 21, 2005
  
  Shoah Testimonies to Reside at University of Michigan's Library (USA),
  Available to the Public
  
• March 20, 2005
  EU Seeks to Embrace Gypsies
  
• March 17, 2005
  Germany's Fischer calls Holocaust
  'ultimate crime against humanity'
  
• March 17, 2005
  Polish President Cites Holocaust Survivor at Knesset
  
• March 15, 2005
  C-SPAN's Balance of the Absurd
  
  
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  March 6, 2005
  Auschwitz 1st Soviet Liberator honored by Poland
  
• March 4, 2005
  Nazi hunt yields Romania war crimes suspects
  
• March 2, 2005
  Mossad Agent Who Nabbed Eichmann Dies
  
• February 28, 2005:
  Holocaust survivor's artwork exhibited
  
  

February 13, 2005: New Yad Vashem Museum Shows 'Human Story'

• February 11, 2005:
  Yad Vashem: Nazi soap stories 'invention'
  

  Editor's Note: See also from the Center of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Myths About the Holocaust: On the Question of Holocaust Victims being made into Soap

• February 9, 2005:
  Giovanni Palatucci, Unlikely Holocaust Italian Hero, Honored by Yad Vashem
  

January 28, 2005 Queen Elizabeth of England pays tribute to the Holocaust victims

• A new life for youth's wartime diaries: Czechs honor Petr Ginz who died at Auschwitz
  
  
• From The New York Times, January 28, 2005:
  

  A Factory of Death is Remembered, 60 Years Later

  Liberators and Survivors Recall the Auschwitz That Was

  See also the moving tribute entitled "Always, Darkness Visible" by AharonAppelfeld, a Romanian Holocaust survivor living in Isreal since 1946.

  January 27: 1945-2005

  
  
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  Keeping the Holocaust Relevant Educators in Germany are asking: What relationship will future generations have to the Holocaust?

  
  
• January 26, 2005 (from Reuters):
  Red Army Liberators Recall Shock of Auschwitz
  
• January 25, 2005:
  Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of Germany: Remember the Nazi Crimes
  

  "The memory of the Nazi genocide "is part of our national identity."

  • Germany's Shame Over Evil of the Holocaust
    

    "The vast majority of Germans alive today are not to blame for the Holocaust, but they do bear a special responsibility. The evil of Nazi ideology did not occur without preconditions. The brutalisation of thought and the loss of moral inhibitions had a history. Above all, Nazi ideology was desired by people and man-made."

    
    
• CNN Special Report (January 24, 2005):
  
  
  
• January 23, 2005 (via Associated Press):
  

  Auschwitz Remains Emblem of Evil Sixty years after the Nazi death camp's closure, it still has the power to shock "For me, this is a grave, not a museum" Soviet Infantryman Returns to Auschwitz "Sixty years have passed, you forget a lot --and for 30 years, no one showed interest or cared to ask"

  
  
• January 20, 2005 (via Reuters):
  Auschwitz Survivors Recall the Horror 60 Years On
  

  "Auschwitz is a place where we share the responsibility to remember the past with the goal of building a better society" Abver Shalev, Chairman of Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority

  
  

• January 20, 2005, from Boston Globe (via AP with photo): One by one, Paris Memorial pays tribute to Holocaust victims January 23, 2005 (from BBC); "Wall of Names" Holocaust Memorial opens in Paris, France

  
  

• January 19, 2005 From The New York Times: Hesitantly, Holocaust Survivors Revisit Past

January 7, 2005: Letter Reveals Vatican Policy on [Jewish] Children of Holocaust "[Jewish] Children who have been baptized must not be entrusted to institutions that cannot ensure their Christian education." January 9, 2005: Saving Jewish Children, but at What Cost?

 

December 25, 2004: Extraordinary Photos and Text Commentary Posted Oliver Lustig's Text Presentation and Photo Selection from the Auschwitz Album

• From United Press International (November 30, 2004):
  Report: Harvard University Coddled Nazis
  
• November 24, 2004:
  Germany Honours a British Spy that Saved 10,000 Jews
  
  • Berlin Embassy Honours A 'True British Hero'
    
• November 22, 2004:
  Mengele's diaries reveal 'Angel of Death' unrepentant to the end
  
• November 4, 2004
  Herbert Herden, 89, of Germany Honored by Israel with the "Righteous Among Nations" Medal for saving Polish Jews

• Helga Deen October 19, 2004: An extraordinary and unique finding Diary of Jewish Dutch girl, Helga Deen, killed by Nazis found in Tilburg (The Netherlands)   Dutch girl's WWII diary recounts horror tale Diaries of another 'Anne Frank' shed light on camp hell

  • October 14, 2004:
    Memorial Event Honors Holocaust Victims in St. Petersburg, Russia
    

  October 12, 2004: Romania's President Ion Iliescu Admits Romania's Role in the Holocaust   Romania commemorates first Holocaust Memorial Day Romania's Responsibility and Role in the Holocaust October 8, 2004: Romania Comes to Terms With the Holocaust

  • October 11, 2004:
    German anti-Nazi cleric, Cardinal Clemens August von Galen, heads for sainthood
    
  • October 10, 2004:
    Pressure on US to settle claims that Army plundered Jewish riches
    
  • How Bush's Grandfather Helped Hitler's Rise to Power
    (From UK's Guardian of September 25, 2004)
    
  • Survivors, families remember Lodz ghetto victims (August 30, 2004)
    

    "Our Jewish neighbors were murdered in a bestial way" Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka

  • From Bucharest, Romania: Last chance campaign against Nazi criminals
    

  Gypsies pay tribute to dead at Auschwitz (Aug. 3, 2004) Roma Victims Remembered (July 14, 2004)

  • A Swiss Court Decides to Allow Gypsies' Holocaust Lawsuit to Proceed
    (July 8, 2004)
    
  • Romania plans Holocaust courses
    (AP - June 25, 2004)
    
  • June 22, 2004:
    Gypsies to sue IBM on 'Nazi link'
    
    • Swiss Court OK Gypsy Holocaust Suit Vs IBM
      
      
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    Simon Wiesenthal Given an Honorary British Knighthood on June 18, 2004, in recognition of a "lifetime of service to humanity"
    
  • June 12, 2004:
    World Marks 75th Birthday of Holocaust Diarist Anne Frank
    
    • Anne Frank: The Face of the Holocaust
      
    • Anne Frank's 75th celebrated
      

  Prisoners in Sachsenhausen, 1938 (NARA: 242-HLB-3609-25)

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  June 11, 2004 Gay Persecution Subject of New Holocaust Exhibit

  June 3, 2004
  Belzec Holocaust Memorial Opens in Poland
  

  an important step in the process of Polish-Jewish reconciliation...

  Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski

  On Poland's Holocaust and its Remembrance          (May 27, 2004  Editorial Remarks) "The Hungarian Holocaust was "a heinous crime that was committed by Hungarian people against Hungarian people." Prime Minister Peter Medgyessy    May 27, 2004 Hungary's National Holocaust Memorial Hungary's First Holocaust Museum Opens Hungary Moves to Face Role in Nazi Past

  • Nazis and Jews: Insights From Old Diary (NY Times April 22, 2004)
    
  • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Exhibition April 22, 2004 - October 16, 2005:
    Deadly Medicine -- Creating the "Master Race"
    
    • April 21, 2004: Holocaust Museum shows Nazi effort to develop "Master Race"
      

  ..	April 15, 2004: Steven Spielberg (right) displaying the Cavaliere di Gran Croce, Italy's highest decoration, he received from Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (left). Spielberg honored by Italy for preserving Holocaust history through film with the highest civilian medal

    

  • April 14, 2004: Ex-Nazi Guard Loses U.S. Citizenship
    
    
  • April 12, 2004: Eastern Europe's first Holocaust museum set to open in Budapest on April 15, 2004
    

    • see also the Jerusalem Post's Article
      

  • April 9, 2004: Romania's Gypsy survivors of Holocaust awaiting funds
    [Associated Press]
    
  • April 8, 2004: Nikolai Zarenov of Latvia awarded the "Righteous Among Nations" title by Yad Vashem
    

    March 30, 2004: Observance of the 60th Anniversary of the Hungarian Holocaust

    
    

    March 11, 2004: The Solly Ganor Case of Credibility and Deceit: Solly Ganor, the Lithuanian Holocaust Survivor, Seeking Fame and Glory out of the Ashes of the Holocaust With a Little Help From His American Found Friend and Coach, Eric Saul

    
    

    From The New York Times of January 14, 2004 : Aimée Stauffer-Stitelmann, the first Swiss to seek pardon for the wartime "crime" of aiding Jews.

    
    

    	A Hanukkah 2003 Miracle From The New York Times of December 23, 2003: Israeli Siblings, Separated by the Holocaust, Reunited after some 67 years...
    Beniamin Shilom kissed the Auschwitz tattoo of his sister, Rozia November, when they were reunited in Israel after some 67 years.

  • From The Boston Globe of December 22, 2003: Cardinal Roger Etchegaray fears Anti-Semitism in Europe
    
  • December 3, 2003: The Ugly Face of Anti-Semitism Resurfaces in France
    From the Front Page of The New York Times : "Attacks by Arabs on Jews in France Revive Old Fears"
    
  • From the Front Page of The Wall Street Journal (November 25, 2003):
    "For Lt. Withers, Act of Kindness Has Unexpected Sequel"
    (a story of a U.S. Officer (Lt. John Withers) that broke the rules to let his men take in 2 young Dachau survivors)
    
  • November 18, 2003: CANDLES Museum Destroyed by Fire
    
  • November 15, 2003: 4 Israeli Ex-Security Chiefs Denounce Sharon's Hard Line
    
    

    	November 11, 2003: Polish Rescuer Irena Sendler, credited with saving some 2,500 children, awarded with Poland highest Order, the White Eagle Order.
    Holocaust hero Irena Sendler, 93, smiles during a ceremony at which she was awarded Poland's highest distinction, the Order of White Eagle in Warsaw Monday Nov. 10, 2003. [AP]

    
    
  • October 29, 2003 / Holocaust Legacy: Germans and Jews Debate Redemption
    
  • August 16, 2003:  Germany's Holocaust Memorial Takes Shape
    
    

  August 7, 2003:   The Hiram "Harry" Bingham IV Case: Unlocking Uncle Harry's Secrets June 29, 2003: The Eric Saul Case and his "Visas for Life --The Righteous Diplomats" Project: An Issue of Credibility and Accoutability .

  Yad Vashem Marks 50 Years Since Its Inception:1953-2003 [Opening of the Jubilee Year -- September 2003 (Elul 5763 )]

  Varian Fry -- "An American Hero of Our Times" Campaign for the Issuance of a United States Centennial Commemorative Stamp

  • Montreal Memorial Holocaust Centre of Canada set to Re-open on June 8, 2003
    
    • Museum Profile

    May 5, 2003: Austrian Holocaust Victims Remembered

  • May 10, 2003: 70th Anniversary of the Nazi Book-burning
    
  • April 30, 2003: The Newest and Most Comprehensive List up-to-date Covering over 350,000 names
    of German Life Insurance Policy-Holders that Perished During the Holocaust and published in over 20 languages
    by The International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims
    
  • Anne Frank's Writings on Display for the First Time in the U.S. (June 12 - Sept. 12, 2003)
    
    
  • April 28, 2003: Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day
    
  •  April 27, 2003: Post Mortem Honoring of Captain László Ocskay of Hungary as "Righteous Among Nations"
      
  • April 8, 2003: Holocaust Survivors' Insurance Ordeal
    
    

  • March 27 - April 19, 2003 Special Holocaust Conference Photo Exhibit: "Photographs as Witness 1944-47" by Dr. Ruth Gruber at Morton Community Center Room 106, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

    
    
  • World Wide Up-to-Date News on Holocaust Issues
    
    
  • Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, has prepared a special exhibit to honor the memory of Israeli astronaut Col. Ilan Ramon whose mother (Tonia Kreppel) and grandmother (Leah Kreppel) were Auschwitz Holocaust survivors.
    

    Petr Ginz, a 14 year old Jewish boy from Prague who perished in Auschwitz and whose 's drawing "Moon Landscape" has become immortal due to Ilan Ramon. ("Moon Landscape" connects the dream of one Jewish boy who is a symbol of the talent lost in the Holocaust, to the journey of one Jewish astronaut, who is a symbol of the Israelis revival. The moon landscape depicted in Petr Ginz's drawing attests to his aspiration to reach a place from where the earth, which threatened his life, could be seen from a secure range.)

    
    
  • Hungary's first Holocaust Museum is scheduled to open in a former Budapest synagogue by mid-2004
    
  • Swiss Court Approves Hearing in Gypsy Suit Against I.B.M. with Respect to the Holocaust
    
  • Remembering the Lost and the Liberated:
    A picture (at right) of Polish Jews, carrying pictures of Hungarian Jewish children killed in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp marching in Oswiecim on January 27, 2003 to mark the 58th anniversary of the camp's liberation by Soviet troops.
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  • Holocaust Memorial Day 2003: Children and the Holocaust
    
  • Jewish Museum in Warsaw, Poland: More Than a Memorial
    
  • Kennedy Library in Boston Honors Composers Interned at Terezin Concentration Camp
    
  • Remembering the Holocaust victims in Scotland
    
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  Himmler Order for the Destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto -- February 16, 1943 -- To: Higher SS and Police Leader (Hoeher SS- und Polizeifuehrer), East SS Obergruppenfuehrer Krueger, Cracow .For reasons of security I herewith order that the Warsaw ghetto be pulled down after the concentration camp has been moved: all parts of houses that can be used, and other materials of all kinds, are first to be made use of. .The razing of the ghetto and the relocation of the concentration camp are necessary, as otherwise we would probably never establish quiet in Warsaw, and the prevalence of crime cannot be stamped out as long as the ghetto remains. .An overall plan for the razing of the ghetto is to be submitted to me. In any case we must achieve the disappearance from sight of the living-space for 500,000 sub-humans (Untermenschen) that has existed up to now, but could never be suitable for Germans, and reduce the size of this city of millions -- Warsaw-- which has always been a center of corruption and revolt. signed --H. Himmler  Source: Yad Vashem <jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/himmord.html> Warsaw Ghetto Destruction, 1943 (The U.S. National Archives & Records Administration -- NARA: 238-NT-282) GENERAL  TABLE  OF  CONTENTS: I. Holocaust Background Information II. Heroes and Heroines of the Holocaust III. Faces and Voices of Holocaust Survivors IV. Holocaust Studies and Related Topics V. The Holocaust Argumentative Page VI. Holocaust Selected Readings, Photos, and Items of Interest VII. Holocaust Selected Books VIII. Descendants of the Holocaust IX. Holocaust Related News X. Holocaust Memorial Drives