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First LIVE Streaming of The International March of the Living in 25 Years NEW YORK, April 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The International March of the Living, an annual program to be held on Monday, April 8, 2013, brings 10,000+ high school students from around the world for a week of intensive education and touring in Poland to study the history of the Holocaust and examine the roots of prejudice, intolerance and hate. Its aim is to impart the lessons of the Holocaust, celebrate the...
In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the online memorial website Memory Chest Memorials plans to donate half of all sales collected on Jan. 27, 2013 to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. Toronto, ON (PRWEB) January 25, 2013 Memory Chest Memorials, an Internet-based memorial website, helps people make connections with friends and family members in the wake of losing a loved one. In addition to providing a much needed support network for people in...
NEW YORK, Jan. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, AJC issued the statement below, and re-released its short film on the Nazi death camp, Belzec. More than 500,000 Jews were slaughtered there in less than a year. Only two Jews survived. View Belzec film. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) The full text of AJC's statement follows: We Remember In the Jewish tradition, we are commanded to remember...
STAMFORD, Conn., June 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sixty-six years after the notorious Nazi death camp at Auschwitz was liberated and the horrific crimes of Dr. Josef Mengele were first revealed, Alexander Historic Auctions of Stamford, Connecticut (an affiliate of Alexander Autographs, Inc., www.alexautographs.com) has obtained for auction all of the war criminal's writings, including his autobiography describing his escape from Germany and life in South America, diaries, philosophical tracts,...
"I now prayed with all my heart that it would not take too long to reach our next destination for a journey of more than three days without insulin would never get me there alive..." -- Ernest Sterzer, Holocaust survivor with Type 1 diabetes. WESTPORT, Conn., Jan. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Surviving the brutal inhuman conditions of the Nazi concentration camps is a harrowing tale. But doing so at 17 years old with Type 1 diabetes is a miracle that everyone should hear about. This...
BLOOMFIELD, Conn., March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- "We are going to pick potatoes." That's what the family housekeeper told four-year-old Irene Levin when she was whisked off from her playgroup in the park to flee German-occupied Norway. In 1942, Irene Levin was one of 1,200 Norwegian Jews who escaped to Sweden during World War II. Nearly 800 remaining Jews were deported and murdered in Auschwitz. Irene's memories of life in Norway during and after the war are the subject of her book, "We Are...
CHAPPAQUA, N.Y., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Teens encounter an extraordinary story of cruelty, survival, and healing in Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz (Tanglewood), by Eva Mozes Kor and Lisa Rojany Buccieri. The book takes kids where The Diary of Anne Frank cannot, following a young girl into the concentration camp and beyond. With unflinching honesty and simple, accessible language, Surviving the Angel of Death confronts provocative issues like medical...
U.S. pop star Madonna never planned on visiting a concentration camp museum in Poland as part of her first performance visit to the country, sources say. Unofficial sources said Madonna's manager, Guy O'Seary, insisted the Like A Virgin singer had no plans to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum in Poland despite reports to the contrary, Polish Radio reported Saturday. Meanwhile, Madonna's first concert in Poland drew nearly 80,000 fans to Bemowo airport in Warsaw. Polish Radio said...
Jewish boxer Salamo Arouch, who honed his skills against fellow prisoners at the Auschwitz death camp, has died in Israel at the age of 86, his daughter says. Arouch's daughter, Dalia Ganon, confirmed her father died near Tel Aviv, Israel, of unspecified causes on April 26 after seeing his health steadily decline since last year, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday. The 1989 film Triumph of the Spirit chronicled Arouch's bloody fights against his fellow Auschwitz prisoners during World War...
A traveling exhibition of dissected human cadavers is being investigated by Polish prosecutors who suspect the presentation may represent desecration of the human body. "We are investigating this case to check whether the corpses were not desecrated and whether all procedures needed to mount such an exhibition in Poland were carried out," a spokesman for the Warsaw prosecutors' office, Mateusz Martyniuk, told Reuters."The exhibition, "Bodies...the exhibition," has toured several...
