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The new Wall of Names with names of the 3,485 Jews who were deported during Nazi occupation
January 31, 2020, 12:52 pm
City of Nice remembers the thousands forcibly deported
We look at the history of the French city with two shuls that has just dedicated a new Wall of Names
By Robert Levitt
Chiune Sugihara
May 24, 2019, 2:41 pm
Son of Japanese diplomat who saved Jews sets the record straight on his father
Speaking at a recent Limmud FSU event in Minsk, Belarus, Nobuki Sugihara downplayed some of the stories about his father, in whose name a museum opened in Japan in 2000
By Jenni Frazer
Pope Francis (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
September 24, 2018, 9:08 am
Pope Francis warns against rebirth of antisemitism that fuelled the Holocaust
Catholic leader marks annual remembrance for Lithuania's Jewish community on the second day of his Baltic tour
Seventh fort barracks the Žaliakalnis district of Kaunas, Lithuania, used as concentration camp by the Nazis during their occupation of Lithuania. (Wikipedia/ Kaunofortas)
August 31, 2017, 3:36 pm
Lithuanian troops train at concentration camp where 5,000 Jews are buried
Soldiers pitch tents at the grounds of former Nazi camp in Kaunas the 'Seventh Fort' where mass Jewish graves lie
By Cnaan Liphshiz (JTA)
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