Auschwitz Jewish Center Adding Kosher Food & Prayer Services

80 years after Auschwitz, kosher food will be sold in town of Oświęcim

The kosher concession will open in time for Yom HaShoah, beginning on the night of April 23.

80 years after Auschwitz, kosher food will be sold in its town of Oświęcim - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Eighty years after Auschwitz was liberated from the Nazis, Jews who make a pilgrimage there can eat kosher food. A mile from the concentration camp, visitors will be able to buy packaged, shelf-stable kosher meals for the first time at the Auschwitz Jewish Center — now a museum and the only surviving synagogue in Oświęcim, the Polish town renamed Auschwitz by the Nazis. The kosher concession will open in time for Yom HaShoah, Israel’s Holocaust …

Auschwitz Jewish Center Adding Kosher Food & Prayer Services

New Programs Will Launch In Time For March of the Living Event

NJ Governor Visits New Holocaust Center, Plans to Attend March of the Living

(JNS) – In the last two days, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy dedicated a new Holocaust and Genocide Research Center at a high school in his state and announced that he intends to join this year’s International March of the Living in Poland, describing both as “pretty solemn but pretty special” events “bound by history.” […]

Since 2009, Bella Swiatlowski has been carrying the project of the cobblestones of memory in French-speaking Belgium: these cobblestones covered with brass, which commemorate the last place of life of the victims of Nazism. Hidden child and working ankle of the AMS (Association pour la Mémoire de la Shoah), she is also daughter of deportees. Her parents, murdered in Auschwitz, were the first to be honored with a cobblestone in Belgium...The begi…

Holocaust Museum confronts the Bosnian genocide 30 years ago

Thirty years ago, in a town most Americans had never heard of, one of the worst atrocities since the Holocaust unfolded. On April 6, the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum will help make sure the world doesn’t forget. The Museum will host its annual Lazowski Memorial Lecture at 3 p.m., shining a light on the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina—an event many St. Louisans may not realize hits close to home. More than 8,000 B…