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US Holocaust Museum: Don’t turn away Syrian refugees
Jewish Journal
November 20, 2015
The United States should not turn its back on Syrian refugees, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum said.
U.S. Holocaust museum rips revisionist cartoon contest in Iran
Jewish Journal
April 14, 2015
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum slammed a Tehran-based contest that invites contributors to create cartoons questioning the historical truth of the Holocaust.
Michael Berenbaum Q&A: ‘I thought we would have done better’
Susan Freudenheim
March 11, 2015
On March 16, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, D.C., will honor Michael Berenbaum with the museum’s National Leadership Award at a dinner in Los Angeles themed “What You Do Matters.”
Holocaust in North Korea
Jared Sichel
January 23, 2014
As Shin Dong-hyuk crawled over his friend’s lifeless body, the 23-year-old North Korean could feel the electric current shooting through him.
Survivor, storyteller, celebrity, sage: Elie Wiesel at 85
Jonah Lowenfeld
September 24, 2013
When talking about Elie Wiesel, who turns 85 on Sept. 30, it is far too easy to fall into a list of superlatives. As a child who survived Auschwitz and other concentration camps, Wiesel witnessed more death and more horrors than most human beings ever will. A onetime journalist who wrote for Hebrew- and Yiddish-language newspapers, starting in the 1950s, Wiesel has gone on to publish more books than most writers ever do, including “Night,” which has become the second-most widely read work of Holocaust literature in the world.
Priest discusses Holocaust documentation efforts
Ryan Torok
June 6, 2013
The Rev. Patrick Desbois, secretary to the French Conference of Bishops for relations with Judaism and adviser to the Vatican on the Jewish religion, appeared at Wilshire Boulevard Temple on May 22 to discuss his effort to locate the mass graves of the approximately 1.5 million Jews who were murdered in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust between 1941 and 1944.
Polish politician Wladyslaw Bartoszewski receives U.S. Holocaust museum’s highest honor
Jewish Journal
May 1, 2013
Polish politician and historian Wladyslaw Bartoszewski was scheduled to receive the Elie Wiesel Award from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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