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July 10, 2019, 11:44 am
Why we remember
By NJJN Editors
Eva.stories, based on the diary of Eva Heyman, a real 13-year-old Jewish girl from Hungary who was deported to, and killed in, Auschwitz in 1944, asks, what would the Shoah have looked like through Instagram? Screenshot/Instagram
May 22, 2019, 10:41 am
Eva.stories: Believe the hype, ignore the indignation
Instagram Holocaust project informs next generation about the Shoah
By Gabe Kahn
Eva Vogel, left, and Susan Stein of Morristown, both participants in the Drew University writing workshop, at a Holocaust symposium in April held at the College of Saint Elizabeth. Photo by Johanna Ginsberg
May 1, 2019, 12:42 pm
The Shoah’s impact on the next generation
Rising 2G community considers their own experiences to better understand their survivor parents
By Johanna R Ginsberg
Audience members at the Holocaust and Genocide Research Symposium. Photos by Johanna Ginsberg
April 24, 2019, 11:30 am
Inaugural symposium examines trends in Holocaust education
By Johanna R Ginsberg
Federation-supported programs include case work, home care, food and medicine supplies, and volunteerism.
April 24, 2019, 11:22 am
Renewing Jewish life in Belarus
By Dov Ben-Shimon
In a World Jewish Restitution Organization video, Holocaust survivor Greta Mares says the Nazis came and took “everything of value” from her family. WJRO
April 24, 2019, 11:12 am
New push for Polish property restitution
Pressure by WJRO comes as Poland balks on payments to non-citizens
By Stewart Ain
Three World War II veterans — from left, Bernard Rothenberg of Manalapan; Robert Duffy, formerly of Rockaway and now a resident of the Menlo Park Veterans Memorial Home; and Leo Rosenzweig of Manalapan — lit memorial candles for Holocaust victims during the Yom HaShoah ceremony. Photo by Debra Rubin
April 17, 2019, 12:39 pm
Commemorating Yom HaShoah with those who fought the Nazis
Veteran and survivor see shift in young people’s attitudes
By Debra Rubin
Jack Hersch talks about his father’s life and his experiences retracing it at a presentation in Morristown High School. Photo by Johanna Ginsberg
February 13, 2019, 12:16 pm
Second Generation takes over Holocaust testimony
Son of survivor speaks to Morristown High School students
By Johanna R Ginsberg
With mass deportations shredding the Ghetto, the Oyneg Shabes underground prepared thousands of documents for burial, items illuminating the Ghetto experience to an unknown future. Anna Wloch
January 16, 2019, 11:40 am
Film spotlights storytellers of Warsaw Ghetto
If end was near, they wanted to tell their own tale
By Jonathan Mark
Holocaust survivors at Café Europa, a monthly Jewish Family Services of Middlesex County program providing socialization and entertainment. Photos by Debra Rubin
January 7, 2019, 11:39 am
JFS holds fund-raiser to meet needs of survivors
Growing demands strain the agency’s budget
By Debra Rubin
Lola Kline of Freehold with her mother, Taibe Dzienciolski, in a displaced persons camp after the war. Photo Courtesy Lola Kline
December 26, 2018, 12:12 pm
Program to dispel myths about Jewish resistance during Holocaust
By Debra Rubin
November 28, 2018, 12:32 pm
Honoring Holocaust survivors
By NJJN Staff
Martin Raffel in Amsterdam with Esther Voet, editor-in-chief of the Dutch Jewish weekly Nieuw Israelietisch Weekblad.
October 15, 2018, 11:29 am
Rewriting Jewish history in the Netherlands
By Martin J. Raffel
Dr. Rebecca Erbelding, historian and curator at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Photo by Debra Rubin
October 15, 2018, 11:25 am
Holocaust historian details Roosevelt’s efforts to save Jews
N.J. lawyer spurred U.S. rescue efforts
By Debra Rubin
Teachers break into groups to discuss teaching methods for a program at Rutgers University’s Herbert and Leonard Littman Holocaust Resource Center of the Bildner Center.
October 15, 2018, 11:24 am
Teachers bring survivors’ narratives into lesson plans
By Debra Rubin
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