Category Archives: Holocaust

A Holocaust Survivor Who Candidly Reveals the Cruelty Also of Jews in the Holocaust

Halina Birenbaum is a Holocaust survivor from Poland.  She has gone back many times guiding tours of the death camps and told her story countless times.  In a Hebrew language documentary film, “Where Are You Going?,” her son Gilad and Halina follow a mother and son to Poland.  Halina is deeply touching. She speaks with

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Bill Proposed in Uruguay to Punish Denial of Holocaust and Armenian Genocide

A bill has been presented in Uruguay to criminalize the denial and also the trivialization of the Holocaust or of the Armenian Genocide and all other genocides that are recognized by the UN General Assembly and by Uruguay itself.  The bill defines such behaviors as “crimes of incitement to hatred, contempt or violence towards people”

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New Book: Israel’s Failed Response to the Armenian Genocide

by Israel W. Charny When the Turkish government demanded the cancellation of all lectures on the Armenian Genocide at Israel’s First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, and that Armenian lecturers not be allowed to participate, the Israeli government followed suit. This book follows the author’s gutsy campaign against his government and his quest

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Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum Includes a “Genocide Gallery”

The new Dallas (Texas) Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, which opened in September 2019, includes a “Genocide Gallery.”  The museum was designed by Edward Jacobs and Michael Berenbaum (Berenbaum Jacobs Associates). Jacobs is a gifted creative designer who lives in Jerusalem and is partnered with Berenbaum who is widely known and respected for his having

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Proposal for California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Fails to Include Both Armenians and Jews

Neither the Armenian Genocide nor the Holocaust were included in a recent draft proposal of the California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum.  Needless to say, a wide range of protests have reached the state including a partnering of Armenian, Greek, and Jewish organizations. Source: This article was read in the California Courier: Taub, David (August 22

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Memorable! When the World Jewish Congress Called on the U.S. in 1944 to Bomb Auschwitz and the War Department Refused

Would you believe this quotation from the War Department Reply?: “There has been considerable opinion to the effect that such an effort, even if practicable, might provoke even more vindictive action by the Germans.” WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS August 9, 1944 Hon. John J. McCloy Under Secretary of War War Department Washington, D.C. My dear Mr.

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The Milestone First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide in 1982 DID TAKE PLACE QUITE FULLY AND VERY SUCCESSFULLY

By Israel W. Charny Once and For All for History: Repeatedly, there are articles that report or suggest that the milestone First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide in 1982 never took place at all or, alternatively, it is reported that the conference deteriorated severely and just about evaporated. Thus, the California Courier (June

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Israeli and Polish Students Together Memorialize the Holocaust at Auschwitz

A report of a remarkable ceremony at Auschwitz in March 2019 tells of Israeli and Polish students standing side by side reading out the names of their relatives who were murdered in the Holocaust at Auschwitz-Birkenau and other death camps. As is widely known, the Polish government in recent years has gone to an extreme

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ELIE WIESEL GENOCIDE AND ATROCITIES PREVENTION ACT SIGNED INTO LAW

On January 14, 2019, President Donald Trump signed the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act, a ground-breaking genocide prevention law, overwhelmingly adopted by the Senate and House, which codifies earlier measures including those implemented by the Obama Administration, and puts in place a set of clear policies and processes to prevent new atrocities. The

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DISHONORABLE QUOTES — IN DENIAL OF EVIL AND GENOCIDE

ONLY VICTIMS OF THE GAS CHAMBERS CAN GIVE PROOF OF THE GAS CHAMBERS Lyotard [French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist] used the example of Auschwitz and the revisionist historian Faurisson’s demands for proof of the Holocaust to show how the differend operates as a double bind (a dilemma or difficult circumstance from which there is

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Yehuda Bauer Decries Israel’s Approval of Polish Censorship of Holocaust Information as “Betrayal, Betrayal, Betrayal…,” and also Calls Israel’s Failure to Recognize the Armenian Genocide a “Betrayal”

Professor Yehuda Bauer, doyen of Holocaust studies in the world, who is academic advisor to Yad Vashem said in a radio interview about Poland’s newly announced position of suspending criminal penalties in a law that criminalized blaming Poles for Nazi crimes, that Yad Vashem/Israel’s approval of the correction “borders on betrayal” Bauer said about the

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Israel Yields to Poland’s Narrative

Excerpts from article on June 28, 2019 in Haaretz in response to Poland’s law forbidding reference to Polish participation in the Holocaust. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave Poland a real treasure in return  recognition of Poland’s narrative. The joint declaration, which (for good reason) the two leaders read in English rather than in their voters’ languages, made

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Shamai Davidson, MD 1926-1986

Professor Shamai Davidson, MD, at the time of his death, Director of the Shalvata Mental Health Hospital and Center, and Associate Director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem, was one of the three founders of the Institute – together with Eli Wiesel and Israel Charny. Shamai Davidson dedicated himself in particular

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Netanyahu and Kagame: Their Hands Are Full of Blood by Prof. Yair Auron

According to the media, the “summit meeting” between the Israeli Prime Minister and the President of Rwanda at Davos evoked more interest than Netanyahu’s earlier meetings with the German Chancellor, the French President, and even the President of the United States.  The two leaders are trying to ‘iron out the wrinkles’ and ‘close the deal’

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Poland Seeks to Criminalize any Reference to Polish Participation in the Holocaust

Published in the California Courier January 28, 2018 – The Polish parliament has approved a law that forbids use of the term “Polish Death Camp,” and forbids any other mention of the participation of the Poles in crimes committed during the Holocaust.  Anyone who violates the law, including non-Polish citizens, will be liable to receive a

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Campaign to end Israeli arms exports to rogue regimes gets Knesset push: Event co-organized by lawmakers from left-wing Meretz and right-wing Likud

by Judy Maltz | Dec. 26, 2017, Haaretz English Edition https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-campaign-to-end-israeli-arms-exports-to-rogue-regimes-gets-knesset-push-1.5629731 Prompted by growing evidence of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, a diverse group of Israelis from across political and religious spectra are putting increased pressure on the government to end arms exports to rogue regimes. On Tuesday, they were out in full force at a

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Israel Sells Arms to Countries Committing Genocide

A Major Critique: ​​Israel Sells Arms to Countries Committing Genocide Prof. Yair Auron, Associate Director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem, has  published courageously in Israel’s most influential newspaper, Haaretz -both in the Hebrew and  English editions- ​a powerful critique of Israel’s arm sales to countries engaged or known to be threatening ​genocide. The critique

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“The Holocaust, Rebirth and the Nakba” by Yair Auron (English and Hebrew editions)

Auron, Yair (in press 2017). The Holocaust, Rebirth and the Nakba: Memory and Contemporary Israeli-Arab Relations. Landham, MD: Lexington Press. [Translated from an earlier edition in Hebrew]. אורון, יאיר (2016). הבנאליות של החמלה: על הצלת ילידים יהודים בכפר הצ’ירקסי-מוסלמי בסלניי שבקווקז ב-1942.  תל אביב: רסלינג.

Elie Wiesel: Auschwitz Survivor and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Dies at 87

Website editor’s note: Elie Wiesel was one of the three co-founders of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem, together with Shamai Davidson, M.D., Director of the Shalvata Psychiatric Hospital, and a specialist in treating Holocaust survivors, and Israel W. Charny  who has served as Executive Director of the Institute from 1982. by

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Israeli Jews and Arabs plant ‘Garden of the Righteous’ to Honor Forgotten Holocaust Heroes

Alternative memorial in mixed Israeli village to commemorate rescuers in all genocides, including some Holocaust saviors never acknowledged by Yad Vashem. By Judy Maltz | Haaretz English Edition | Jul. 14, 2016 | NEVE SHALOM – A makeshift sign tacked onto an olive tree is for now the only clue to the grand plan in store

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