Granddaughter of German soldier returns looted postcards
(JTA) When Karla McCabe was a child in East Germany in the 1970s and 鈥�80s, she knew her grandfather had been a German soldier in World War II. But exactly...
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Peacock鈥檚 鈥楾he Tattooist of Auschwitz鈥� 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鈥檚 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鈥� most-visited tourist destinations. Outside of the city a memorial commemorates the Westerbork transit camp, where...
Book recalls Polish 鈥榗ountess鈥� 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...
鈥楾he Tattooist of Auschwitz鈥� 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聽Bono鈥檚 in-concert callout聽to聽Pete Davidson鈥檚 somber monologue on 鈥淪aturday Night Live.鈥澛燦ow one Grammy-winning songwriter and his wife have offered a...
European countries increase security as Jews brace for antisemitism
(JTA) As the bloody war in Israel and Gaza continues to escalate, many European Jews are bracing for reverberations far from the frontlines. Jewish communal officials in Europe anticipate that...
Porto鈥檚 Jewish community unveils memorial to Portuguese Inquisition victims
(JTA) In this city on Portugal鈥檚 northwestern coast, a small Jewish community has dedicated years to identifying its predecessors who were killed or expelled in the Portuguese Inquisition of 1536...