So the Nazis occupied the country and ruthlessly deported its Jewish citizens, three-quarters of whom were killed on arrival in Auschwitz. Those who survived tried to recover confiscated businesses and bank accounts. According to the lawsuit, … Read More »
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At 80, Holocaust survivor gets honorary doctorate
Finkel recalls his family being sent to live in a Jewish ghetto in Piotrkow Trybunalski, where one sister died, and his mother and youngest sister being sent to their deaths at Treblinka. Finkel, his father and brother worked in a forced labor camp … Read More »
Some pro-Israel groups defend U.S. aid to Palestinians
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Worried about possible U.S. aid cuts to the Palestinians, some American Jewish groups find themselves in the peculiar position of defending the funding, particularly money that supports Palestinian security forces. Read More »
Honoring 9/11 in an unexpected way: via cabaret
“The Holocaust Museum is (about) ‘never forget,’ ” says Gordon, who has directed and produced the work and will perform in it alongside such noted Chicago cabaret figures as Joan Curto, Tom Michael, Beckie Menzie and David Edelfelt. … Read More »
Author Susan Fromberg Schaeffer dead at 71
She wrote with beauty about some of the ugliest things in the world: war, the Holocaust , suicide, heartbreak and despair. Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, author of 14 novels including “Buffalo Afternoon” (1989), the definitive novel about the Vietnam War and … Read More »
Israel : ‘Delegitimization’ is just a distraction
… been used as a weapon against Israel’s critics at least as far back as 1975, when then-US Ambassador to the United Nations Daniel Patrick Moynihan accused the international body of delegitimizing Israel by passing a ” Zionism is racism ” resolution. … Read More »
Obama sticks to Mideast vision in speech to pro-Israel lobby
President Barack Obama on Sunday refused to back away from his new Middle East peacemaking proposals that have angered Israel, as he addressed the Jewish state’s staunchest American supporters amid a deep rift in U.S.-Israeli ties. Read More »
Senator objects to Holocaust use in permit battle
In the April issue of GunNews, publisher Guns Save Life uses a gold Star of David with an article that compares the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust with that of Illinois gun owners battling to keep their names private. … Read More »
Exhibit explores Jewish and African-American connections at HBCUs
A compelling story is explored in the exhibition “Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges” at the Illinois Holocaust Museum. The story is about Jewish scholars who fled Nazi Germany for the United States, … Read More »
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