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A Heap of Broken Images

The guests include Jus Allah of Jedi Mind Tricks, Wise Intelligent of Poor Righteous Teachers, Sabac Red of Non Phixion, A-Plus and Pep Love of Hieroglyphics, Chief Kamachi of Army of the Pharaohs, Guru of Gang Starr, Mike Ladd, Rob Sonic, Holocaust, Myka 9 of Freestyle Fellowship, Virtuoso and Awol One.

Alison Leslie Gold

She has written numerous books but is probably best known for her research about the Holocaust and Anne Frank.

Avner Cohen

Cohen has been critical of Benjamin Netanyahu's deployment of the Holocaust for political ends.

Bevan Dufty

Dufty is the son of writer William Dufty and Maely Bartholomew, who had lost most of her family in the Holocaust.

Carl Michael von Hausswolff

In 2012 he was heavily criticized for allegedly using ashes of Holocaust victims from the Majdanek concentration camp and using them in a painting.

Courage to Care Award

Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority, was established in 1953 to perpetuate the memory of the Jewish world destroyed in the Holocaust.

Denying History

Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? is a 2002 book by Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman about Holocaust denial.

Dharowali

The residents of the village (mainly Randhawa Jatts) are descendants of Baba Lachhman Singh Dharowali, a martyr of the Nankana Sahib Holocaust, where he was burnt alive after being hung upright from a jand tree.

Franz Löschnak

On September 1, 1992 the first Austrian Holocaust Memorial Servant started his service at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.

Frederick Stocken

He conducted the work at the opening of the Permanent Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum with the strings of the Royal Academy of Music, and also in Sarajevo with the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra.

Gathering of Israel

After the Holocaust, the United Nations General Assembly, in its decision making process on United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, perceived this idea to be the reason for adopting the decision on a Jewish State.

Georgia Slowe

Her Jewish heritage allowed Georgia to bring some authenticity to her roles in two productions based on the Holocaust; The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank with Mary Steenburgen and Wallenberg with Richard Chamberlain

Graf-Engelbert-Schule

Else Hirsch was a teacher in Bochum during the Third Reich and organized ten children's transports, saving many lives, though she herself perished in the Holocaust.

Hans Scholl

In the same issue of Newsday, Holocaust historian Jud Newborn noted that "You cannot really measure the effect of this kind of resistance in whether or not X number of bridges were blown up or a regime fell... The White Rose really has a more symbolic value, but that's a very important value."

Helen Lederer

Her father was born in Teplice, Czechoslovakia, in 1926; many of her relatives were murdered in the Holocaust.

Horst Mahler

On March 19, 2009, Mahler's wife, former university teacher and lawyer Sylvia Stolz, was also convicted and imprisoned for Holocaust denial after she claimed that a "Jewish foreign power" ruled the German federal authorities and the Western world and that the federal German courts practised "Allied victors' justice" by limiting free speech.

Ignacy Schwarzbart

E. Thomas Wood and Stanislaw M. Jankowski: Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust, by (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1994; paperback February 1996).

Imre Hercz

After being hospitalized in Amberg for five and a half years, he recovered and emigrated to Norway in 1952 as one of several Jewish Holocaust-survivors of lesser health accepted to Norway with substantial grants from Joint to the Norwegian government.

Jacob's Rescue

Jacob's Rescue is a 1994 children's book by Malka Drucker and Michael Halperin based on a true story that takes place in Warsaw, Poland during the holocaust.

Jeffrey K. Olick

He not only traces representations of the Holocaust in state rhetoric, but also builds on Mikhail Bakhtin to develop a dialogical approach to memory by examining the ways in which later moments in the discourse respond to earlier moments.

Jeffrey Sussman

In addition to the seven health and fitness books he wrote with his former wife, Jeffrey is the author of three other non-fiction books: How to Sleep Without Drugs; Power Promoting: How to Market Your Business to the Top! and No Mere Bagatelles, a biography of handbag designer and Holocaust survivor Judith Leiber.

John K. Roth

Later volumes include Approaches to Auschwitz: The Holocaust and Its Legacy (with Richard Rubenstein, 1987), Holocaust: Religious and Philosophical Implications (ed. with Michael Berenbaum, 1989) and Memory Offended: The Auschwitz Convent Controversy (ed. with Carol Rittner), 1991.

Kogan

Eugen Kogon (1903 - 1987), German historian and holocaust survivor

Leon Schagrin

Mrs. Schagrin had survived the Holocaust, alongside her two sisters, with the help of Oskar Schindler.

Leopold Engleitner

They gave lectures in Washington, D.C., (at Georgetown University and Library of Congress), New York (at Columbia University), Chicago (at Harold Washington College), Skokie (for the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois), Palo Alto, in the San Francisco Bay area (Stanford University) and Los Angeles (at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust).

March of Remembrance and Hope

The major funder of the Canadian program is the Azrieli Foundation, founded by Canadian Holocaust survivor, David Azrieli, which is a Canadian philanthropic organization that supports a wide range of initiatives and programs, among which include Holocaust commemoration and education.

Micha Brumlik

From October 2000 to 2005 he was director of the Fritz Bauer Institute for the Study and Documentation of the History of the Holocaust.

Michael Berenbaum

In 2001, Berenbaum was historical consultant for the History Channel's The Holocaust: The Untold Story, which won the CINE Golden Eagle Award and a Silver Medal at the US International Film and Video Festival.

Mikhail Turovsky

Among his well-known works are the cycle Holocaust, The End of an Utopia', many nudes, landscapes and still lifes; illustrations to the works of Ivan Franko, Vasyl Stefanyk, Aleksandr Blok, Sholom-Aleichem, Leon Feuchtwanger, Johannes Becher, and many other writers.

Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki

Holocaust survivor Yehudis Pshenitse has recounted the efforts of a parish priest from Nowy Dwór to save her life after the murder of more than 2000 Jews in Rembertów ghetto in August 1942.

Pope John Paul II and Judaism

This concert, which was conceived and conducted by American Maestro Gilbert Levine, was attended by the Chief Rabbi of Rome, the President of Italy, and survivors of the Holocaust from around the world.

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I

This piece is featured in the memoir of Gregor Collins, "The Accidental Caregiver: How I Met, Loved, and Lost Legendary Holocaust Refugee Maria Altmann".

Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld

Along with Paul Rassinier's Holocaust-denying work The Drama of the European Jews, Marie Adelheid also translated Lenora Mattingly Weber's work My True Love Waits from French into German and Harry Elmer Barnes' Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace: A Critical Examination of the Foreign Policy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt from English into German, among others.

Randolph L. Braham

In the 1998 Oscar-winning Academy Award for Documentary Feature film The Last Days, Professor Braham provided overviews of the Hungarian Holocaust.

Resistance during the Holocaust

Since 1963, a commission organized by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Israel, and headed by an Israeli Supreme Court justice, has been charged with the duty of awarding people who rescued Jews from the Holocaust the honorary title Righteous Among the Nations.

Restoring Courage tour

It featured an invocation by Rabbi Moshe Rothchild, remarks by Beck, actor and activist Jon Voight, the screening of the documentary film Kleiner Rudy by Michelle Stein Teer about her grandfather, Holocaust survivor Rudy Wolff and personal family memoirs, a short documentary about a solemn tour by Beck and his wife Tania of Auschwitz, and a panel discussion including Beck, Rabbi David Greenblatt of United With Israel, David Brog of Christians United for Israel, and author Mike Evans.

Robert Kempner

Kempner also served as counsel at the 1947-1948 trial of the German Foreign Office and is credited with finding the text of the Wannsee Protocol, a critical historical document in the history of the Holocaust.

Samson Option

In 2012, in response to Günter Grass's poem "Was gesagt werden muss" ("What Must Be Said") which criticized Israel's nuclear weapons program, Israeli poet and Holocaust survivor Itamar Yaoz-Kest published a poem entitled "The Right to Exist: a Poem-Letter to the German Author" which addresses Grass by name.

Schwartzberg

Hirsch Schwartzberg (born 1907), Jewish leader of Holocaust survivors under the Allied occupation of Berlin

Siggi Wilzig

When Nobel Prize winner Holocaust author Elie Wiesel was appointed to head the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council by President Jimmy Carter, he asked that “Wilzig be the first person to serve with him.”

Smadar Rosensweig

She is the daughter of Rabbi Dr. David Eliach and Dr. Yaffa Eliach, renown Holocaust Scholar and professor emeritus at Brooklyn College.

Susan Strasberg

She later starred in the Italian Holocaust film Kapò which was nominated for an Academy Award as best foreign film of 1960.

Sydney Jewish Museum

There are also guided tours; one of the guides is Holocaust survivor and writer Olga Horak.

Ten Boom

Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983), author and Holocaust survivor who helped many Jews escape the Nazis during World War II

The Catholic Church and the Holocaust

The Catholic Church and the Holocaust (1930–1965) is a book written by American historian Michael Phayer on the topic of Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust.

Tomicah Tillemann

Tillemann is the oldest grandson of Tom Lantos, the former Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the only Holocaust survivor ever elected to the U.S. Congress.

Uki Goñi

In Argentina, President Néstor Kirchner ordered the repeal of a secret directive of 1938 prohibiting Argentine diplomats from granting visas to Jews fleeing from the Holocaust in Europe.

Wimbledon and District Synagogue

The Harry Urban Holocaust Library concentrates on the personal stories of survivors of the Shoah.

Yom HaShoah

Ismar Schorsch, former Chancellor of Conservative Judaism's Jewish Theological Seminary of America held that Holocaust commemoration should take place on Tisha b'Av.

Yuddham Sei

J.K. helps send Nishanth aboard, after giving him a book Man's Search for Meaning by holocaust survivor and philosopher Viktor Frankl, and advice to help him deal with his grief.


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