80 years after Auschwitz was liberated, kosher food returns to its town of Oswiecim

80 years after Auschwitz was liberated, kosher food returns to its town of Oswiecim

Remembering the Holocaust After Eighty Years with Simon Schama, Hugo Macgregor and Robert Siegel

About It’s been 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. To mark this solemn anniversary, historian Sir Simon Schama traveled to once-thriving Jewish European cities and made his first visit to the death camp. Join Schama and Hugo Macgregor, director of the new PBS film Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On, and Moment’s Robert Siegel, for a conversation about the importance of remembering those who perished, the ongoing fi…

80 years since the Holocaust

Dr Helen Lewis will be the keynote speaker at this year’s communal Yom Hashoah commemoration taking place on Sunday, April 27, which will mark 80 years since liberation and the end of the Holocaust. Over 1000 people are expected to attend the event hosted by the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, including Holocaust survivors, NSW Governor Margaret Beazley, politicians, consuls-general of various countries, Jewish communal leaders and leaders of othe…

After eight decades since the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp, Jewish visitors who travel to this place of memory will be able, for the first time, to access kosher food in the city. Auschwitz Jewish Center, located just 1.6 kilometers from the former Nazi concentration camp, announced that it will offer packaged and non-perishable kosher meals, an initiative that coincides with the commemoration of Yom HaShoá, the day on which th…

B'nai B'rith World Center and Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael to Celebrate Heroism of Jewish Rescuers During Holocaust Commemoration Ceremony - B’nai B’rith International

The B’nai B’rith World Center-Jerusalem and Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (KKL-JNF) will hold on Thursday, April 24, for the 23rd consecutive year, a joint