Jewish Holocaust

Rare Anne Frank Video Released

Cheryl Phillips — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:02:55 -0500

Anne Frank lived a short 15 years but her story has become one of the world's most widely read books. A diary, which was given to Anne on her 13th birthday, chronicles her life from June 12, 1942 until 1 August 1944. This became the book "The Diary of a Young Girl", published in many languages. Now, the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam has begun airing the only known video of the teenage diarist.

Argentina Expels Bishop Holocaust Denier.

mattwion — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:33:19 -0600

By now everyone knows about Bishop Richard Williamson. The pope lifted an excommunication on Williamson along with a number of other bishops of his order, which had been excommunicated for decades. Allegedly the pope was unaware of the Bishop’s holocaust denying views.

Pope Honors Holocaust Victims During Trip to Austria

Dinka — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:37:48 -0500

Pope Benedict XVI has expressed "sadness, repentance and friendship" to the Jewish people at the start of his three-day trip to Austria.

Rabbbis Visit Armenian Genocide Museum in Yerevan

Armen Hareyan — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 07:30:41 -0500

Today the “Liberal Jews of Great Britain” visited the Genocide museum and institute in Yerevan, Armenia. As the museum's director, Hayk Demoyan, told panorama.am, rabbis Danny Rich and Ruth Barnett were part of the delegation. A seminar and dialogue titled “The Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire” was held. The visit by the rabbis had a pre-planned program.

Israel Holocaust Survivors To Receive $300 Monthly

Armen Hareyan — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:17:19 -0500

The Israeli government has reached a compensation deal with Holocaust survivors ending a bitter feud. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, many survivors of the Nazi genocide during World War II have also suffered from financial difficulties.

First museum to be created in Germany to honor citizens who helped hide Jews

Dinka — Tue, 08 May 2007 11:42:53 -0500

Barbara Preusch still remembers the day when Nazis came to her home to find Jews - and left without results. But her family was sheltering the mother and her daughter. Now 76 and still living in the same house, hidden behind tall hedges in a leafy suburb, she leads a visitor to the claustrophobic, hidden space between the hallway and a bedroom where Rachela and Jenny Schipper stayed from 1943 to 1945.

Jewish Holocaust Memorial Honors Arab Muslim

Dinka — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:41:06 -0500

A Jewish organization in Los Angeles has honored an Arab Muslim who saved Tunisian Jews from Nazi persecution. VOA's Mike O'Sullivan reports on a memorial service at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. The Holocaust memorial featured invocations in Hebrew and in Arabic.