Before the school year ended, my teaching partner, DJ, asked me how I was spending my summer vacation. I told her I’d be going to camp. She asked what I meant, and I said I’d be off to Dachau, Buchenwald, Majdanek, Treblinka and Auschwitz.
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Flag exhumed from neo-Nazi grave
German authorities in the southern town of Passau have dug up a neo-Nazi’s grave to remove a swastika flag that was placed on the coffin.
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Holocaust survivor at Bexleyheath school
PUPILS at a Bexley school have been learning first hand about the horrors of the Holocaust from one of its survivors.
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Survivors will have to wait for increased aid
In a long overdue response, the [Israeli] Prime Minister’s Office announced yesterday that the government does not intend, for the time being, to carry out the recommendations of the public commission of inquiry on the aid for Holocaust survivors.
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Source:
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1006694.html
By Adi Schwartz
Webmaster note: Can you imagine the outcry if any country other than Israel had decided to make a bunch of ancient Holocaust survivors wait for their money?
And don’t even THINK about asking them to use a pedal-operated brain-bashing machine
Memories come back to haunt elderly Holocaust survivors
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Memories come back to haunt elderly Holocaust survivors
BERLIN (AFP) — As the last generation of Germany’s Holocaust survivors enters the twilight years, many are losing the strength to suppress horrific memories and caregivers find they are often ill-equipped to help.
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Bitter Holocaust Battle Plays Out on Capitol Hill
- Accusations Fly About Motives in Struggle Over Insurance Restitution
Survivor works to keep memory of Holocaust alive
As a young girl, Ela Stein Weissberger said she cherished the moments when she played a cat in a production with other children her age.
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Head of panel on Holocaust survivors: Olmert ignoring pledge to boost benefits
A month after presenting the committee report examining the state’s support of Holocaust survivors, retired Supreme Court justice Dalia Dorner — who headed the committee — attacked Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in an extremely harsh way for not implementing the recommendations.
What’s this say about Philadelphia?
Celia Yewlow, 91, Holocaust survivor
Celia Peres Yewlow, 93, formerly of Northeast Philadelphia, a Holocaust survivor, died yesterday at Willow Lake, an assisted living residence in Willow Grove.