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Holocaust

Northwest Dutchess
Schools
Anti-Semitic Graffiti Found At School In Rhinebeck Anti-Semitic Graffiti Found At School In Rhinebeck
Anti-Semitic Graffiti Found At School In Rhinebeck The discovery of two swastikas on a high school wall in the region is being used as a learning experience regarding anti-Semitism. The swastikas were found in Dutchess County on Monday, March 4 at Rhinebeck High School, said the principal Edwin Davenport. Davenport, who happened to be in the classroom when the symbols of hate were discovered by another student, said he is investigating to find who may have drawn the symbols in chalk on a wall, but also immediately called out the action for what it was -- "It's evil, and will not be tolerated," Davenport said. It is not the first time …

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by Kathy Reakes
Ridgewood
Police & Fire
K9 Calendar Features Airport Bomb Dog Named For Ridgewood, NJ Woman Who Died In 9/11 Attack K9 Calendar Features Airport Bomb Dog Named For Ridgewood, NJ Woman Who Died In 9/11 Attack
K9 Calendar Features Airport Bomb Dog Named For Ridgewood, NJ Woman Who Died In 9/11 Attack A bomb dog named for a Bergen County woman who was among those slain at the World Trade Center in the 9/11 terror attacks is featured in the new 2024 monthly calendar produced by the federal Transportation Security Administration. Gina-Gina is a 6-year-old Belgian Malinois who works with her handler, Julie Guevara, at LaGuardia Airport. She was named after Gina Sztejnberg, 52, of Ridgewood, who worked as a database architect consultant for Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. on the 96th floor of the North Tower. Guevara has a special connection to that fateful day. She was among the New York F…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Warren Hunterdon
News
Actors To Play Nazis, Jewish Mothers Needed For Documentary Filming In Phillipsburg Actors To Play Nazis, Jewish Mothers Needed For Documentary Filming In Phillipsburg
Actors To Play Nazis, Jewish Mothers Needed For Documentary Filming In Phillipsburg Several roles are being cast for a Holocaust documentary filming in Phillipsburg later this month. "Righteous" is seeking actors for non-speaking roles in re-enactment scenes for the hour-long doc, produced by Austin Kase and filming in Phillipsburg Tuesday, Nov. 28 and Wednesday, Nov. 29. The documentary is casting a wide variety of roles, including Jewish mothers, Nazi officers and soldiers, a three-member Jewish family, an old Polish professor, and several others, according to its BackStage.com listing. The gig pays up to $200 per day. Click here to learn more and apply.

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by Valerie Musson
Gloucester
News
'Terminate Hate': Schwarzenegger Shares Messages For Anti-Semites During NJ Trip 'Terminate Hate': Schwarzenegger Shares Messages For Anti-Semites During NJ Trip
'Terminate Hate': Schwarzenegger Shares Messages For Anti-Semites During NJ Trip Arnold Schwarzenegger knows a thing or two about strength: It takes resistance. The former California governor, bodybuilder and actor shared a special message about anti-Semitism during a trip to New Jersey's Stockton University on Monday, March 6, the school announced on its website. 🏋️‍♂️Arnold Schwarzenegger has spent most of his life helping people build their strength. “Your muscles only grow... Posted by Stockton University on Monday, March 6, 2023 “Your muscles only grow from resistance. It wasn’t easy. It was uncomfortable. Your mind and character are no different than your …

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by Cecilia Levine
Orangetown
Obituaries
'King Of Summer': Holocaust Survivor Who Worked At Camp For 71 Years From Tappan Dies 'King Of Summer': Holocaust Survivor Who Worked At Camp For 71 Years From Tappan Dies
'King Of Summer': Holocaust Survivor Who Worked At Camp For 71 Years From Tappan Dies A man who escaped the Holocaust at a young age and went on to become a mainstay at a summer camp for more than 70 years has died.  Rockland County resident Harry Vogel of Tappan died on Wednesday, Dec. 21 at the age of 87, according to his obituary.  Born on Yom Kippur in Frankfurt, Germany in 1935, Vogel was the first son of Arthur Vogel, who was taken to Buchenwald concentration camp during the Holocaust. However, Vogel's father was given the option to buy his family's way out because he had children and family members in the US willing to sponsor them, and they made the ar…

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by Ben Crnic
Montgomery MD
Schools
Students Stage Walkout After Anti-Semitic Graffiti Found At Bethesda High School Students Stage Walkout After Anti-Semitic Graffiti Found At Bethesda High School
Students Stage Walkout After Anti-Semitic Graffiti Found At Bethesda High School Hundreds of Walt Whitman High Schools students walked out of class in support of their Jewish classmates after antisemitic graffiti was found painted on the school sign earlier this week, according to multiple reports. The message "Jews Not Welcome" was found spray painted on the sign on Saturday, Dec. 17, as previously reported by Daily Voice. The walkout was held in the school commons, with Jewish students filling each space along each tier. Several rabbis, delegates, and students spoke at the event, the reports continue. Both Jewish and non-Jewish students participated in the walkout, w…

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by Annie DeVoe
Bedford
Politics
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Apologizes For Comment At Anti-Vax Rally His Wife Called 'Reprehensible' Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Apologizes For Comment At Anti-Vax Rally His Wife Called 'Reprehensible'
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Apologizes For Comment At Anti-Vax Rally His Wife Called 'Reprehensible' Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has issued a public apology after being blasted by critics - including his own family - for making an Anne Frank reference during an anti-vaccine and mandate rally in Washington, DC. During the event on Sunday, Jan. 23, Kennedy drew the ire of many when he implied that Anne Frank had more freedom in hiding from the Nazis than people have under the current US vaccine policies. “What we’re seeing today is what I call turnkey totalitarianism. They are putting in place all of these technological mechanisms for control we’ve never seen before,” Kennedy said. “It’s been the…

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by Zak Failla
Brookfield
Politics
State Rep Defends Facebook Comment Comparing Lamont To Hitler State Rep Defends Facebook Comment Comparing Lamont To Hitler
State Rep Defends Facebook Comment Comparing Lamont To Hitler  Connecticut State Rep. Anne Dauphinais is doubling down after being called out for comparing Gov. Ned Lamont to Adolf Hitler. On Facebook last week, Dauphinais, a Republican who represents the 44th General Assembly District in the towns of Killingly and Plainfield in Windham County, compared the governor to the Fuhrer in response to an article posted about state employees who have not been compliant with COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates. “King Lamont aka Hitler dictating what we must inject into our bodies to feed our family!” she posted under a story about compliance. State Repr…

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by Zak Failla
Fairfield
Lifestyle
Vatican's Opening of Holocaust-Era Papal Archives Could Better Catholic-Jewish Relations Vatican's Opening of Holocaust-Era Papal Archives Could Better Catholic-Jewish Relations
Vatican's Opening of Holocaust-Era Papal Archives Could Better Catholic-Jewish Relations A week before (COVID-19) dominated every headline, the Vatican announced it would open up the papal archives of the controversial Holocaust-era Pope Pius XII.  Over 150 scholars of "all faiths and nationalities" applied for review of these secret documents covering Pius XII's papacy from 1939 to his death in 1958. Historians have been particularly interested in studying the documents from the World War II period. While the Vatican was officially neutral during the war, there has long been public criticism that Pope Pius XII remained silent over the fate of the Jews and did not do enoug…

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by Donna Christopher
Chappaqua
Lifestyle
Surviving Hate Is A Heroic Act: Westchester Author Shares Her Father’s Tale Surviving Hate Is A Heroic Act: Westchester Author Shares Her Father’s Tale
Surviving Hate Is A Heroic Act: Westchester Author Shares Her Father’s Tale “Survivor’s guilt” is part of our lexicon now. But did you know it was first identified in the 1960s as a condition suffered by Holocaust survivors? Can you imagine, feeling such guilt for having survived when no one else — not your parents, your siblings, your friends, people you used to pass in the street — made it out alive? Seeing it as a failure of character that you lived when it’s really a testament to strength? “… he could not sing because expressing joy wasn’t something he could do.” Chappaqua’s Ella Scheinwald, an executive and management consultant and principal at NYC Advisors…

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by Vira Mamchur Schwartz
South Passaic
News
Wayne Holocaust Survivor, 91, Rattles Off Horrors Testifying In Trial Of Nazi Guard Wayne Holocaust Survivor, 91, Rattles Off Horrors Testifying In Trial Of Nazi Guard
Wayne Holocaust Survivor, 91, Rattles Off Horrors Testifying In Trial Of Nazi Guard A 91-year-old Holocaust survivor from Wayne is contributing witness testimony against a Nazi during his trial in Germany. Asia Shindelman does not know Former Stutthof SS guard Bruno Dey personally but is speaking publicly about the horrors that she and others in the camps were subjected to, the New York Post reports. Dey, 93, has been charged as an accessory to the murder of more than 5.200 Jews in 1944 and 1945. This trial may be the last opportunity to hear from living witnesses, according to Claims Conference Executive Vice President Greg Schneider. A great-grandmother, Shindelman was…

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by Cecilia Levine
DV Plus - Westchester
Politics
With A Resurgence In Hate Crimes, This Speech On History Speaks For Itself With A Resurgence In Hate Crimes, This Speech On History Speaks For Itself
With A Resurgence In Hate Crimes, This Speech On History Speaks For Itself Westchester County Executive George Latimer's full remarks from Thursday, May 2, when he spoke during the annual Yom Hashoah Commemoration at the Garden of Remembrance in White Plains: “This is an event where we both remember and we commit to never forget, those are two different realities. We remember that six million people, innocent people, were herded into boxcars like animals. Brought into gas chambers and mass murdered. They were put in pits and shot with automatic weapons. For the singular crime that they were Jewish. “The accomplishments, the life, the offspring that never happ…

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by Jon Craig
Harrison
News
Last Nazi War Criminal Living In U.S. Deported From New York Back To Germany Last Nazi War Criminal Living In U.S. Deported From New York Back To Germany
Last Nazi War Criminal Living In U.S. Deported From New York Back To Germany An indicted Nazi war criminal -- the 68th and last one known to be living in the U.S. - has been deported from New York back to Germany. Palij, 95, was born in what was then-Poland and now Ukraine, and immigrated to the United States in 1949. The former Nazi guard apparently lied to U.S. immigration officials about his role in mass killings during World War II, saying he worked on a farm and in a factory, the White House said in a statement. The former Nazi labor camp guard has lived in Jackson Heights, Queens since 2001.  His deportation comes after years of diplomatic wrangling, the Whi…

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by Jon Craig
Bedford
Lifestyle
This Sunday: Bedford Playhouse Previews 'The Number On Great-Grandpa's Arm' This Sunday: Bedford Playhouse Previews 'The Number On Great-Grandpa's Arm'
This Sunday: Bedford Playhouse Previews 'The Number On Great-Grandpa's Arm' Bedford Playhouse is thrilled to be screening a popular HBO film with local ties on Sunday, March 11, from 5 to 6:30 p.m.  HBO's documentary film, “The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm," shares lessons of the Holocaust through conversations between a young boy and his great-grandfather. The screening will be followed by an audience Q&A with panelists including: 10-year-old Elliott Saiontz, local resident and the film's young narrator; his mother, Stacey Saiontz; Amy Schatz, award-winning director/producer; and Jeff Scher, animator.  The screening will take place at The Little Theater…

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by Jon Craig