Holocaust

The future of Holocaust education

05/01/2011 22:20

Remembrance isn’t a static picture of the past; it’s also a dynamic task for the future, which poses major challenges for the Jewish world.
On the 27th of Nissan we remember the victims...

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Fred and Regina Jacobs light a Jahrzeit candle during a Holocaust comemoration at the state Capitol in Hartford, Conn., Friday, April 24, 2009. The couple are survivors of the Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Mittel-Bau Nazi death camps