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  1. Jul 5

    On the third day of unloading corpses from the Germans' gassing vans he encountered those of his wife and children. After laying his wife in the mass grave he asked to be killed but the guards said he was strong enough to work and wouldn't be killed...yet.

  2. Jul 5

    Claude Lanzmann, director of Holocaust documentary , one of the most essential films ever made died today at the age of 92. May he rest in peace.

  3. Jul 5

    I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation. RIP documentary filmaker 1925-2018

  4. Jul 7

    Lest die Tweets von zum Film Weint still.

  5. Aug 8

    Meeting with Rabbi Andrew Baker, Director of International Jewish Affairs , re. ways to achieve our common goal of keeping alive the memory of and prevention of all forms of antisemitism in Moldova

  6. Aug 6

    Aug 6 1944. Beginning of the liquidation of Poland's Lodz ghetto. 70,000 Jewish people still there now deported to Auschwitz death camp. Let's never forget

  7. Jul 5

    RIP , who sadly died today age 92. In memory, here’s our original 1985 essay on his magnum opus , his “huge, detailed, unforgettable canvas” of the Holocaust through testimonies of both survivors and ‘functionaries’ ☞

  8. Jul 27

    Munich began removing commemorative cobblestones for victims of the Holocaust on Thursday, but the stones also have many supporters. A petition to stop Munich removing them has collected more than 100,000 signatures, Deutsche Welle reports.

  9. Jul 10

    Keeping alive the memory of survivors such as Lord is important for all of us. I am therefore happy to announce that the government will contribute to the establishment of the Sussex Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies. 2/2

  10. Jul 5

    RIP ...I'm not saying 45 should be hogtied and forced to watch on a loop for a week or 2 straight, but I'm not really saying he shouldn't, either... Ok fine I *AM* saying he (and tbh pretty much anyone who works/voted for him, too) should. May be only hope

  11. Rabbi's archive shows how a network of Polish diplomats in Switzerland helped save hundreds of Jews by issuing fake passports.

  12. Aug 9
  13. Aug 8

    Read the inspiring story of how Carl Lutz was able to save over 60,000 Jewish people during the holocaust, using clever legal knowledge and 8,000 special letters.

  14. Aug 8
  15. Aug 7

    One of the Catholic Jews who was arrested on August 2 with St was the Dominican nun, Sr. Judith Mendes da Costa, administrator of the sanitarium at Bilthoven. Here's an account of Sr. Judith's passion (in Dutch)

  16. Aug 7

    so for a few bucks,a few notices and of course all your friends telling you how great you are you spit in the face of the . you are the best, dude. so cool bro. help the enemies of ISRAEL and JEWS worldwide. its ok, we can handle more like you

  17. Aug 6

    1942 At midday St & the prisoners at Westerbork were stripped of their valuables, gold, silver, money, down to the smallest change, and were led to a huge wooden building to have their personal details registered

  18. Aug 6

    . archives: notes, 1942 from "It was a strange day when Jewish Catholics or Catholic Jews - if they so wish - came along with a transport, the nuns & priests with the yellow star in their convent clothes"

  19. Aug 6

    The of continues: in the collection 'Memory of the Netherlands' you find the Etty Hillesum archives. We know for a fact that as a volunteer registering prisoners from Amersfoort, she met St Edith & Rosa Stein in 1942

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