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A message of hate bred on the tongues of terrorists now poison our college campuses today and it’s up to us, the Jews, the Christians, the Muslims to stand up for peace; it up the us, the students in pursuit of the freedom of education to push back and stop these radical, hate-driven organizations. Stop violence. Stop bigotry. Stop anti-Semitism.

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Residents of a Belarus town on the border with Poland made the macabre discovery that thousands of Jewish gravestones have been used to construct buildings, roads – and even garden paving.

The headstones have been turning up in locations all over Brest over the past six years, with around 1,500 discovered so far.

Hundreds were discovered in May during the construction of a supermarket, with headstones unearthed by diggers.

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NEWARK – It’s estimated that only 7 percent of Europe’s Jewish children, who were younger than 16, survived the Holocaust.

About 1.5 million children younger than 12 were murdered in concentration camps.

John Koenigsberg considers himself one of the lucky ones. He went into hiding with a Dutch family and survived.

The 77-year-old Gahanna resident shared his story with a group of about 40 people Saturday at the Newark branch of the Licking County Library.

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MILWAUKEE — Eight female mannequins stand in an exhibition room of the Jewish Museum Milwaukee here, clad in smart and urbane apparel, the sort that might have come from a “Thin Man” film, or something with Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. The clothing went on display about two weeks ago. The fashions are both text and textile, a story of life and death told in fabric, and a recollection during the High Holy Days of mortality and persecution.

The story began decades ago with a family divided between two continents and two destinies. For the purposes of the exhibition, “Stitching History From the Holocaust,” it also started on the day in 1997 when a lawyer named Burton Strnad introduced himself to Kathie Bernstein, an archivist collecting photographs and artifacts from Milwaukee’s Jewish community

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MANCHESTER — The story began with a ceremony in a sunlit garden, descended into darkness, and rose again with a gift of enlightenment.

Illing Middle School paraprofessional Phil Axler and English teacher Ryan Parker recounted the story Friday in the school’s Holocaust Children’s Butterfly and Remembrance Garden.
Parker and other eighth-grade language arts teachers lead the school’s Holocaust studies unit. Axler, who started the remembrance garden four years ago, helps by talking to students about Jewish culture.
In June, Axler invited a Courant reporter to a culminating ceremony at the garden, where Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman spoke and students recited poems inspired by children lost in the Nazi genocide. A news story published on June 12 described Axler’s role in the Holocaust studies curriculum.

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This video describes the Holocaust, Days of Remembrance, and why we as a nation remember these events.

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This segment was originally broadcast on Dec. 17, 2006. It was updated on June 21, 2007.

For the first time, secrets of the Nazi Holocaust that have been hidden away for more than 60 years are finally being made available to the public. We’re not talking about a missing filing cabinet – we’re talking about thousands of filing cabinets, holding 50 million pages. It’s Hitler’s secret archive. 

The Nazis were famous for record keeping but what 60 Minutes found ran from the bizarre to the horrifying. This Holocaust history was discovered by the Allies in dozens of concentration camps, as Germany fell in the spring of 1945. 

As correspondent Scott Pelley reports, the documents were taken to a town in the middle of Germany, called Bad Arolsen, where they were sorted, filed and locked way, never to be seen by the public until now.

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Jacques Herszkowicz—who now lives in Denmark and is known as Jacques Hersh—learned about his picture on the Remember Me? website from his niece, who lives in the United States. Jacques recognized his photograph right away and even remembered the sweater he was wearing in the picture.

Jacques’s parents, Mordka Herszkowicz and Helen (née Najman), immigrated to France from Poland during the 1930s. Mordka went first and was later joined by Helen and their two older children, Charles and Rosette (also known as Rachla). Mordka was a tailor, and Helen helped out with sewing at home while taking care of the family. Jacques was born in France in 1935.

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