The Shoah Foundation has not made an official announcement of the change, but its spokesmen and Berenbaum insist that the decision was an amicable one and that he will continue as a full-time consultant.
State Sen. Tom Hayden handed Quackenbush a petition that called for the suspension of 64 insurance companies practicing in California which have failed to honor Holocaust-era claims.
Next week\’s reopening of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust at its new location on Museum Row coincides with a string of events that will commemorate Yom HaShoah.
\”There was no magic to our survival. It was sheer, pure, unadulterated luck, for men and women infinitely more worthy perished,\” Congressman Tom Lantos said at an advance screening of \”The Last Days.\”
Many modern forms of anti-Semitism, not least the Dreyfus Affair, can be seen as a reaction to the emancipation of the Jews in Western and Central Europe following the French Revolution, according to Dr. Michael Berenbaum.
The Holocaust has been the professional focus of Dr. Michael Berenbaum\’s life for 30 of his 51 years — as student, teacher, scholar, author, journalist and administrator.
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