This paper is about a Holocaust hero named Chiune Sugihara. At the beginning of World War II, Sugihara saved six thousand Jews who were trying to escape Nazi cruelty. His courage and bravery is now praised by thousands of Jews. Many tributes have been made to Sugihara, who has been recognized as Righteous Among the […]

For years, the details of arch-Nazi Eichmann’s hanging by the State of Israel was shrouded in secrecy — from his being given his last glass of wine, to the noose being placed around his neck, to his lifeless body being incinerated in a specially-designed oven and his ashes spread over the sea outside Israel’s territorial […]

This week is the anniversary of the events that took place in the Arab village of Deir Yassin in 1948. In recent years, Deir Yassin has been converted into a bludgeon by the Far Left, the neo-Nazi Right and Israel-bashers in general. Deir Yassin is the ultimate “Man Bites Dog” news story supposedly based on […]

Title: The Ransom Of The Jews – The Story Of The Extraordinary Secret Bargain Between Romania And Israel Author: Radu Ioanid Foreword by Elie Wiesel Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, Chicago, IL Reviewed by Aharon ben Anshel Throughout Jewish history, we have unfortunately grown accustomed to ransoming our people from being held hostage by many evil […]

A few days ago, a 79-year-old Polish Holocaust survivor died in West Palm Beach after a long illness. Born in Bialystok with the name Ethel Katz, her story was known all over the world, having been told over four decades in newspaper and magazine articles, books, documentaries, TV presentations and lectures in 60 countries. Ethel.s […]

To many Jews from the Northeast, Florida and the Midwest, Savannah, Georgia is a city associated with the former Confederate States of America \u2014 and a place to spend the night just off of I-95 en route to and from Florida. Yet, Savannah has more than 271 years of Jewish history that makes it one […]

By: Sara Olkon When the Red Army arrived to free prisoners at the Nazis’ Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland 60 years ago today, the liberation held little meaning, at first, to those who had somehow survived. Jan. 27, 1945, was simply another day in hell for people who had been isolated, forced on death marches […]

By Philip Sieradski, Ph.D. After 60 years of ignoring the Holocaust, this week, the United Nations officially acknowledged that it did, in fact, take place, along with liberation of Jewish people from concentration camps. There was a special session at the UN, with two exhibits about the liberation of Auschwitz — one from the International […]

In 1965, Nicolae Ceausescu began his long and infamous reign as president of Romania. One of the first things he learned upon assuming office was how to trade Jews to Israel. But the Romanian dictator soon found the system to be inefficient. He ordered the Romanian secret service to shift gears from the “ancient age […]

NEW YORK, Jan. 17 (JTA) When they were young, they fought the Nazis, and then bore witness to the extreme depravity of which human beings are capable. Now in or nearing their 80s and 90s, the Allied soldiers who liberated the concentration camps of Europe are recounting their memories of the horrors. Approaching the Jan. […]