*The latest paiting in the Auschwitz Album Series. Just released today! From the artist Pat Mercer Hutchens: Many times I heard my mother say, “Always remember when you speak to a child – you never know who you are talking to.” She would go on to say something like “You may be speaking to a…
BY RON JAGER— In a article published last week on a Yeshiva University affiliated website called “The Beacon”, entitled “Why its time for Jews to Get Over the Holocaust”, it was suggested that now is the time that Jews move on and stop making the Holocaust the most pivotal event in Jewish history. The author…
BY ELAD BENARI, ARUTZ 7 Kazimierz Smolen, a 91-year-old Auschwitz survivor who after World War II became director of the memorial site, died Friday, The Associated Press reported. Smolen died on an historic day: the 67th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. AP reported that he died in a hospital in Oswiecim, the southern Polish…
BY RICHARD RABKIN, MISHPACHA— They could have shut their eyes and minded their own business, as so many people did in 1940s Poland. But when a three-year-old Jewish boy landed on their doorstep, so to speak, the Bulik family — bakers by profession — opened their hearts and gave the child a home. Michael Bulik,…
BY EVELYN GORDON, COMMENTARY— The run-up to International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday has produced some excellent articles drawing parallels between the Holocaust and the threat posed by an Iranian nuclear bomb. But there’s another parallel that’s equally disturbing: the world’s indifference to the relentless incitement to genocide of both Hitler and Iranian President Mahmoud…
BY MICHAEL FREUND— Tomorrow marks the 67th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by the 322nd Rifle Division of the Red Army in the waning days of World War II. That epic event provided the world with a glimpse into the potential darkness of the human soul, as stunned Soviet soldiers came…