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Culture Peacock’s ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ tackles a Holocaust love story based on real events
'Any kind of love at first sight is surprising, let alone in a context like this,' said lead actor Jonah Hauer-King
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Culture Bringing Passover back to the town where the Nazis killed our relatives
My friend Sharon and I collaborated with community leaders to restore the memory of Jewish life in Radom, Poland
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News She managed a university Holocaust center. Now she says incivility on Israel drove her to a Catholic school.
An administrator at Clark University in Massachusetts quits after hecklers protest her participation in a program featuring an Israeli reservist
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Culture Could this be the most meaningful Holocaust memorial in New York?
In Riverside Park, a stone meant to be a placeholder for a grander memorial has become an unlikely gathering place for Bundist Holocaust survivors and their descendants
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Yiddish World How Jewish refugees managed, against all odds, to make a Seder in 1941 in Kobe, Japan
In her diary, the actress Shoshana Kahan described how difficult it was to find eggs to make the matzah balls
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Fast Forward A Queens-based Holocaust survivor remembers her real-life rescuer played by Anthony Hopkins in ‘One Life’
Hanna Slome of Flushing, 99, was one of 669 Czech children sent to Britain thanks to Sir Nicholas Winton
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Fast Forward Germany to give Holocaust survivors in Israel an extra $238 each because of the war
About half of the world’s remaining Holocaust survivors live in Israel
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Fast Forward Nassau County’s Jewish executive calls on Democratic leader to quit for invoking Nazis
The Democratic leader of the county legislature said she was conveying a comparison made by one of many constituents who have expressed fears over a plan to enlist provisional deputy sheriffs
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