During the course of the evening, the audience will hear half a dozen ambassadors relate the Holocaust experiences of six survivors, interspersed by musical interludes.
Museums and educators are wrestling with the question of how to reach younger audiences further and further removed from the horrors of the Holocaust.
Seven-time Grammy Award winner Alanis Morissette was raised Catholic and is now a practicing Buddhist. But her mother was born in Hungary to two Holocaust survivor parents.
As Holocaust survivors number fewer and fewer, the two men’s story was important even before Oct. 7
The memorial focuses on the dangerous efforts made by ordinary Danish citizens who risked their own lives to save Jews during the Nazi occupation of the country.
The ceremony featured the lighting of a memorial flame in front of 500 students from schools across Portugal who took part in the event.
Since Israel’s founding in 1948, the Palestinian population in what now includes Israel, the West Bank and Gaza has risen from 1.4 million to 6.6 million
In 1945, after Germany’s surrender, Pius XII delivered a speech which focused on what he claimed was a Nazi campaign against the Church.
This book and its accompanying interactive virtual museum have won various awards and recognitions, including the Silver Medal of the Independent Publisher’s Award.
A different exploration of Jewish destiny in light of the Holocaust is offered by Tal Kantor in her award-winning short animation film Letter to a Pig, now making its Polish premiere.