By: Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter How did so many Nazis and Nazi collaborators manage to escape Europe after World War II? Who helped them flee and why? What routes did they take on their way to freedom? These and other questions are answered in painstaking detail in a new book, Nazis on the [...]

(Israelnationalnews.com) First hand accounts of Exodus 1947 Haganah Ship participants, and departed captain Ike Aharonovich’s friend and historian. Prof. Meir Shwartz smuggled aboard a British ship deporting the 4500 Exodus refugees and infused them with spirit, hope, and organization. Thus they resisted British efforts to break the message of the mission that Jews should be [...]

By Juan Forero CARMEL, Argentina — Through the years, they’ve seen Jewish schools and synagogues close and said tearful goodbyes to the young who migrated to cosmopolitan Buenos Aires. But in hamlets with names like Sajaroff and Sonnenfeld, a tight-knit community of Jewish elders, some in their late 80s, fights to hold back time. On [...]

by Gavriel Queenann (Israelnationalnews.com) The Yesha Council representing the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria has produced a short video making Israel’s case for keeping the Jewish nation’s ‘disputed’ ancestral heartland. The video, just six minutes long, is nevertheless packed with clear, concise information on the history and legal realities pertaining to Israel’s presence in [...]

By: Jerold S. Auerbach Why should anyone remember a notorious pariah ship from Israel’s war for independence? If for no other reason (and there are many), because it is likely to resurface from the depths of memory should Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, if and when they ever begin, focus on Jewish settlements. The prospect of expelling thousands [...]

By: Special to The Jewish Press Newly uncovered documents indicate that U.S. diplomat James G. McDonald repeatedly challenged President Roosevelt on his response to the Holocaust in 1943-1944, contradicting earlier depictions of McDonald as a defender of the president’s Jewish refugee policies. The documents were found in McDonald’s papers at Columbia University. They are the [...]

By: Jerold S. Auerbach Why should anyone remember a notorious pariah ship from Israel’s war for independence? If for no other reason (and there are many), because it is likely to resurface from the depths of memory should Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, if and when they ever begin, focus on Jewish settlements. The prospect of expelling thousands [...]

HOW HISTORY TURNS ON POLITICAL MISJUDGMENT By: Dr. Ervin Birnbaum Date: Wednesday, March 30 2011 At an extraordinary meeting in Berlin 70 years ago this week, attended by 200 generals, commanders-in-chief and senior officers of the German armed forces, Adolf Hitler spoke for two and a half hours on the special nature of “Operation Barbarossa,” [...]

(Israelnationalnews.com) Dina Buchler-Chenis is one of the six torch lighters who participated in the official openeing ceremony of this year’s Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day. Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority presents her story. Dina was born in April 1940 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (today Croatia), to Dragotin and Blanka Büchler. In [...]

By Leah Abramowitz, from Aish Hatorah Resources. Aish is the place for everything you want to know about Judaism. For permission to reprint, e-mail Aish at reprints@aish.com A prosecutor and key witness reflect back on the event that transformed Israel. In May 1960, Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi officer in charge of orchestrating the Final Solution [...]