BUFFALO, N.Y. — Western New Yorkers are paying respect to three people who saved countless lives during the Holocaust. Community members and the Buffalo Jewish Federation are unveiling a new outdoor ...

People who saved Jews from the Nazis during World War II, risking their own lives and the safety of their loved ones, are called the Righteous Among the Nations. Israel has recognized 2,707 Ukrainians ...

My father and all of my grandparents emigrated from the pale of settlement in eastern Europe, as did my wife’s Jewish father. It was difficult to know where they lived exactly and for how long; ...

"Each of these Righteous Gentiles is a hero who confronted their mortality to save their Jewish neighbors from Nazi ...

DENNIS TOWNSHIP – Arlette deMonceau Michaelis and her family helped save about 40 Jews during World War II. “It was more than a duty,” she said. “It was a sacred duty.” For the Dennis Township ...

It is a responsibility. A candle does not negotiate with darkness. It pushes back, stubbornly, flame-first. In Jewish history, the phrase “Righteous Among the Nations” is reserved for non-Jews who ...

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Years ago, I was at Israel’s Holocaust Museum watching an older nun named Maria Bochenek honored for an astonishing act of courage. In Poland during World War II, she helped hide Jews from the Nazis ...

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, observed Jan. 27, brings the weight of history, the horror of genocide, and a profound reckoning with the worst of human nature. Amid the great darkness of the ...

Lost in the recent kerfuffle over whether the U.S. Coast Guard would no longer consider the swastika as a symbol of hate was a far more troubling development in antisemitism. The new U.S. ambassador ...

The owners of the farm were Sabina and Aleksander Smolarek, who during World War II hid their neighbor Moshe Bajtel from the Nazis at their home. As the consul of Sweden, Manuel Antonio Munoz Borrero ...

Community members unveil new mural honoring the "Righteous Among the Nations" I toured the White House to see Melania Trump's Christmas decorations. The East Wing is no more, but the display was still ...