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Interview with Dr. Leslie Ginsparg Klein
May 17, 2016
By Stephen Savitsky
97-year-old Holocaust survivor tells German children about the Holocaust
From YNet: Just before Holocaust Memorial Day, 97-year-old survivor Betty Bausch has again packed her suitcase and travelled to tell young Germans of the harm that their nation inflicted decades before...
May 4, 2016
By OU Staff
History or Memory: Honoring our Survivors by Attending a...
How many people do you know who fast on the 20th of Sivan?  The likely answer is zero.  It is not one of the minor fast days, and obviously not Tisha...
May 4, 2016
By Rabbi Efrem Goldberg
The American Plot to Kill Hitler
Tablet Magazine has this amazing story about a failed plot by a group of Jewish American gangsters to kill Hitler: “In 1933, I was approached by someone respectable, a Jew not...
Apr 20, 2016
By OU Staff
How Did American Soldiers Celebrate Passover During WW2?
Marjorie Ingall of Tablet Magazine spent a day last year at The American Jewish Historical Society at the Center for Jewish History looking into how American soldiers celebrated Passover during WW2. “Lettuce...
Apr 14, 2016
By OU Staff
The Nazi Who Became a Mossad Hitman
On September 11, 1962, a German scientist vanished. The basic facts were simple: Heinz Krug had been at his office, and he never came home. The only other salient detail known...
Mar 31, 2016
By OU Staff
What Is It About Anne Frank?
What Is It About Anne Frank?
There’s only one article about Anne Frank on the OU website (well, two now, including this one). It’s from 2012, so it’s not even new, but you would not believe the...
Mar 22, 2016
By Rabbi Jack Abramowitz
Guinness: Israel Holocaust Survivor, 112, World’s Oldest Man
From the AP. A 112-year-old Israeli who lived through both World Wars and survived the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz is the world’s oldest man, Guinness World Records announced on Friday. Guinness...
Mar 15, 2016
By OU Staff
Last Survivor of Treblinka Revolt Dies in Israel
From the AP: MOSHAV UDIM, Israel (AP) — The death of 93-year-old Holocaust survivor Samuel Willenberg marks the passing of the last link to the notorious death camp of Treblinka, perhaps...
Feb 22, 2016
By OU Staff
Savitsky Talks with Rafael Medoff
Feb 17, 2016
By Stephen Savitsky

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