Sat, October 29, 2005
Trial set for Zundel
By AP
BERLIN — Ernst Zundel, a white supremacist and longtime Canadian resident charged in Germany with inciting racial hatred, will go on trial on Nov. 8, a court said yesterday.
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25 Delaware State Police commanders were visitors at the United States Holocaust Memorial Musem.
Belfast Telegraph (Ireland)
By Ian Graham
newsdesk {at} belfasttelegraph.co(.)uk
29 October 2005
Thousands of yellow crocus bulbs are to be planted by the youngsters of Co Fermanagh in memory of the children of the Holocaust, it has been announced. One hundred bulbs are being distributed to each of the 49 primary schools in the county and children from forms five to seven are being encouraged to plant the bulbs which represent the Star of David which Jewish people were forced to wear under Nazi rule.
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Review:
By DELONDA HARTMANN
For The Star Press
MUNCIE - There are amusing plays, musical plays, poignant plays, and occasionally there are plays so powerful that grown men weep while they watch actors tell terrible truths. Bent is one of those challenging dramas that leaves audience members wrung out and chilled as they stumble out of the theater.
A select group sat stunned and silent on Thursday night as a cast of fine actors presented the horror of the Holocaust at Muncie Civic Studio Theatre. Director Marty Grubbs bravely chose to use a stark set of black boxes, black walls and barbed wire to emphasize the dark history being portrayed on stage.
UN to Create International Holocaust Remembrance Day
By Julie Stahl
CNSNews.com Jerusalem Bureau Chief
October 31, 2005
Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - In an unprecedented move, the United Nations General Assembly was set on Monday to approve a resolution creating the first-ever international day of remembrance for victims of the Holocaust, an Israeli official said.
This would be the first time the U.N. has ever backed a resolution proposed by Israel.
San Jose Mercury News
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court refused Monday to consider whether California was wrongly ordered to pay legal bills of insurance companies that challenged a state law requiring them to make public their overseas, Holocaust-era records.
SOPHIE SCHOLL–THE FINAL DAYS
A film by Marc Rothemund, starring Julia Jentsch
Zeitgeist Films is proud to present Marc Rothemund’s SOPHIE SCHOLL — THE FINAL DAYS, Germany’s official selection for the 2005 ACADEMY AWARDS (Best Foreign Language Film).
The true story of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroine is brought to thrilling life in the multi-award winning drama. This film will be released in the US in February 2006.
SOPHIE SCHOLL will screen as the Opening Night Film at “Made in Germany” film series at the AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles on Friday, November 4.
In New York, this film will screen as the Closing Night Film at the Kino! 2005 German series at the MoMA, on Thursday, November 10.
True Shtick, as Spoken by the Natives
The New York Times
Published: October 31, 2005
“On Second Avenue,” first seen last March and April, has reopened through Jan. 1 at the Jewish Community Center, 334 Amsterdam Avenue, at 76th Street, Manhattan; (212) 239-6200. Following are excerpts from Neil Genzlinger’s review, which appeared in The New York Times on March 16, 2005.
Can a perfectly calibrated ensemble production also be a star vehicle? Apparently so, because that’s what the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater’s revival of “On Second Avenue” is. Six appealing performers with six fine voices share roughly equal time delivering songs and shtick from the heyday of Yiddish theater, yet the show’s biggest name, Mike Burstyn, shines all that much brighter in his solo moments, radiating affability like a fireplace on a cold night.
For a different review from NY Theater.com Click here.
Holocaust victims restitution. Restitution payments you receive as a Holocaust victim (or the heir of a Holocaust victim) and interest earned on the payments, including interest earned on amounts held in certain escrow accounts or funds, are not taxable. You also do not include them in any computations in which you would ordinarily add excludable income to your adjusted gross income, such as the computation to determine the taxable part of social security benefits. If the payments are made in property, your basis in the property is its fair market value when you receive it.
Excludable restitution payments are payments or distributions made by any country or any other entity because of persecution of an individual on the basis of race, religion, physical or mental disability, or sexual orientation by Nazi Germany, any other Axis regime, or any other Nazi-controlled or Nazi-allied country, whether the payments are made under a law or as a result of a legal action. They include compensation or reparation for property losses resulting from Nazi persecution, including proceeds under insurance policies issued before and during World War II by European insurance companies.
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EXHIBIT OF PRE-HOLOCAUST LIFE,
THE JEWS OF CZESTOCHOWA
KICKS OFF US TOUR OF U.S. AT POLISH CONSULATE IN NYC
New York, October 20, 2005 –The Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York City will be the first US host of the multimedia exhibit, The Jews of Czestochowa, an award-winning show first opened in Czestochowa, Poland, in 2004 and then moved to the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. It was viewed by tens of thousands of Polish and foreign visitors.
The U.S. tour will start in NYC at the Polish Consulate,
then move to the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, December 5 - 9,
Seton Hall University in New Jersey, January 22 - April 2, 2006, and a number of other venues throughout the US.
The exhibition presents photos and other memorabilia documenting pre-war Jewish life in Czestochowa, Poland, the tragedy of the ghetto, and deportation to Treblinka. There are also two videos with eyewitness recollections by former residents of the city, and a display of works by Czestochowa art students called “Inspired by Jewish Culture�.
WHEN: November 2 – 10, 2005; weekdays 9:30 am - 5 pm, Weds. to 7 pm, weekend 11 am - 7 pm
WHERE: Consulate General of the Republic of Poland, 233 Madison Avenue at 37th St., New York, NY 10016
DIRECTIONS: subway: 6 to 33rd Street
NOTE: Educators with groups of students are encouraged to contact the Consulate about scheduling a visit.