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Venezuela’s Maduro blames ‘international Zionism’ for protests
(JTA) Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has blamed “international Zionism” for the protests sweeping his country since he was accused of stealing its presidential election. Maduro’s government has cracked down on...
Join the search for a lost Jewish library looted by the Nazis
(JTA) On the eve of World War II, the Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin embodied an avant-garde era for the study of modern Judaism and philosophy, hosting students...
Granddaughter of German soldier returns looted postcards
(JTA) When Karla McCabe was a child in East Germany in the 1970s and ‘80s, she knew her grandfather had been a German soldier in World War II. But exactly...
Peacock’s ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ tackles a Holocaust love story based on real events
(JTA) A Holocaust romance, sparked when a prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau is forced to tattoo a number on another prisoner’s arm and they fall in love at first sight, sounds almost...
Museum dedicated to Netherlands’ Holocaust history is now open
(JTA) The Anne Frank House in the heart of Amsterdam is one of the Netherlands’ most-visited tourist destinations. Outside of the city a memorial commemorates the Westerbork transit camp, where...
Book recalls Polish ‘countess’ who saved Majdanek prisoners
(JTA) In December 1941, a petite, elegant woman left her home in Eastern Galicia, where she was known as the Jewish mathematician Janina Spinner Mehlberg. Three days later, she arrived...
Lubin Yeshiva books thought to be destroyed by the Nazis, are turning up
(JTA) For decades after World War II, a famed Jewish house of study in Poland was consigned to oblivion. The Nazis set fire to thousands of books stored at the...
‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ coming to Peacock in May
The story of real Auschwitz survivor Lali Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew who was forced to tattoo numbers on his fellow inmates and fell in love with a girl he was...
Latvia and Lithuania are paying Holocaust survivors and heirs for their stolen property
(JTA) A narrow window is open now through Dec. 31 for Lithuanian Holocaust survivors and their descendants to apply for restitution, under the terms of a law passed last year....
Wilco singer Jeff Tweedy offers Jewish prayer for healing
(JTA) The Israel-Hamas war has elicited a chorus of celebrity responses, from Bono’s in-concert callout to Pete Davidson’s somber monologue on “Saturday Night Live.” Now one Grammy-winning songwriter and his wife have offered a...