I am a Holocaust Survivor who moderates the group on yahoo! Remember_The Holocaust_ which has over 40 pages of links to relevant sites. The membership is free. The group has currently 115 members from all 5 continents , many who are not Jewish. I have also added a link to your site in the link feature of the group. You and others interested are welcome to join. Generally, members comment and I chose also a site of the week . Otherwise, I post relevant material on not only the Holocaust, but also genocide, human rights and tolerance education. I was appointed by the Governor of the State of Maryland the Hon. W Robert Ehrlich, Jr to the Maryland task force to implement Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights, and Tolerance Education. Desciption of the group:

What can we, as humans,possibly do for the victims of the Holocaust?

We can remember by promoting tolerance and human rights.
[The picture taken in 1937 is of the moderator then at age 4 1 / 2 years old with his foster parents , a childless aunt and uncle,who had reared him from a year old until the age of almost six years old Then, he escaped alone from Germany to Belgium where his parents moved in 1933.. His aunt and uncle were victims of the Holocaust.] (The group currently has members from all five continents with varied backgrounds , religions, nationalities , etc. So, it is truly global.)

The group’s purpose is educational and informative. Join this group and learn about the history of the Holocaust. Ask any questions you may have, and occasionally, messages related to the Holocaust will be posted. In addition, the moderator proposes a site of the week. You are encouraged to visit our comprehensive list of links which feature various facets of The Holocaust, Genocide Watch, Human Rights and Tolerance education. My wish is that you will learn something and share it with others And please also share your knowledge here as well. . All members of Yahoo groups are expected to abide by Yahoo ’s “Terms of Service , Earnest interested persons are most welcome to join.The moderator survived The Holocaust as a teenager.
Shalom/ Freed A. Kahn PS: My screen name on yahoo! is Lejeune 42 which is also the one i use to send e-mail Lejeune was my name during the Holocaust years while surviving in hiding . And 42 stands for the year 1942 when my family and I went into the underground.

YIVO EPYC Educators Seminar on East European Jewish Heritage, being
held at the Center for Jewish History in New York City, June 27-29,
2006

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is sponsoring its second EPYC
Educators Seminar on East European Jewish Heritage, June 27-29, at the
Center for Jewish History in New York City. Eligible participants in
the Educators Seminar include teachers from various settings, including
Jewish high schools, colleges, public schools and private schools, museums and
afternoon religious schools, as well as advanced graduate students in
education and Jewish studies. Selected participants are eligible to
receive North American transportation, hotel, meals, materials and cash
stipends of $550.

The Seminar’s chairman is Prof. Robert M. Shapiro of the Judaic Studies
Department at Brooklyn College, while the co-chairs are Cynthia
Peterman (chair of Jewish History at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in
Rockville, MD) and Leah Strigler (doctoral candidate in Education and
Jewish Studies at New York University). Seminar lecturers will include
Professors Michael Stanislawski of Columbia University, Samuel Kassow
of Trinity College, Cecile Kuznitz of Bard College, Barbara
Kirschenblatt-Gimblett of New York University, Zalmen Mlotek of the
Folksbiene Yiddish Theater, Sheva Zucker of the Weinreich Yiddish
Program at New York University, and more.

The Seminar’s three days will include lectures and discussions by
prominent scholars, musicians and performers, interspersed with
practical curriculum workshops focused on how to employ the wealth of materials
available through YIVO’s EPYC curriculum and archival materials that
are accessible on-line. Participants will have access to the resources of
the YIVO Library and Archives, as well as the other treasures housed in the
Center for Jewish History. For more information about the YIVO EPYC
Educators Seminar and how to apply, contact Prof. Robert M. Shapiro at
rshapiro {at} brooklyn.cuny(.)edu or rmshapiro18 {at} verizon(.)net . Applications are considered as they come in until available spaces are filled.

This seminar is sponsored by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims
Against Germany, Inc. - The Rabbi Israel Miller Fund for Shoah Research,
Education and Documentation; the US Department of Education; and YIVO
supporters of the Food as Roots Program.

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HOLLYWOOD FLORIDA

Holocaust relived at center’s new home
The Holocaust Documentation and Education Center dedicated its new home in south Hollywood with speeches, singing and flags on Thursday. But the actual opening is months away.

BY DIANA MOSKOVITZ
dmoskovitz {at} MiamiHerald(.)com

Holocaust survivor Andrew Hartmann doesn’t remember the first time he heard someone deny the Holocaust happened. But he remembered his reaction.

”I couldn’t believe that such a thing existed, denying it happened,” Hartmann, 71, said. “That is like denying the Earth is round or the Civil War.”

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27 April 2006
Holocaust Legacy Demands Opposing Evil, State’s Zoellick Says

United States promotes tolerance to thwart genocidal aims of militant Islam

By Vince Crawley
Washington File Staff Writer

Washington — The world must learn from the past and ensure that the racist hate preached by Hamas and Iran’s new president cannot evolve into actual acts of genocide and massive violence, Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick said at a Holocaust commemoration April 27.

Zoellick said the United States can help defeat the ideologies of militant Islamists by promoting policies that encourage tolerant, democratic governments in the Muslim world. He also called for greater international involvement in the ethnic conflict in Darfur. (See Darfur Humanitarian Emergency.)

“Bearing witness means learning from history … but knowledge is not enough,� Zoellick told members of Congress, concentration camp survivors and their liberators.

“Bearing witness also means acting against evil,� Zoellick said at the U.S. Capitol during the National Commemoration of the Days of Remembrance. The Days of Remembrance mark the anniversary of the liberation of concentration camps at the end of World War II, when Allied armies halted Nazi Germany’s program of genocide, which included the organized murder of 6 million Jews and millions of other minorities.

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Hamas, Iran rekindling hatred of Jews: US official

Friday, April 28, 2006 - ©2005 IranMania.com

LONDON, April 28 (IranMania) - Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick used a US Holocaust remembrance Thursday to warn of new efforts by Iran and the militant Palestinian group Hamas to incite hatred of the Jews, according to an AFP report.

At a national commemoration at the US Capitol, Zoellick said the victory by Hamas in January’s Palestinian elections hearkened back to Israel’s founding in 1947 when its neighbors refused to recognize its right to exist, AFP added.

“In its response to the recent terrorist Passover bombing in Israel, Hamas continued to justify terrorism and feed hatred,” the number two US diplomat said in prepared remarks.

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IN NEW JERSEY

Holocaust exhibit coming to library

The Monroe Township Public Library, 4 Municipal Plaza, will host a statewide traveling Holocaust exhibit, “Survival of the Human Spirit: Triumph Over Adversity,” from June 17-July 6. An opening reception will be held at 1:30 p.m. on June 18 at the library.

Developed by the Center for Holocaust Studies at Brookdale Community College, Lincroft section of Middletown, and made possible by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, the exhibit consists of 29 panels featuring a group of Holocaust survivors associated with the center.

The exhibition also will be shown from Sept. 1-29 at the Ocean County Library, 101 Washington St., Toms River section of Dover; Nov. 1-30 at the Old Bridge Public Library, Route 516 and Cottrell Road; and Jan. 2-7 at the Monmouth County Library Headquarters, Symmes Road, Manalapan.

The Center for Holocaust Studies at Brookdale Community College is an educational resource center. Its mission is education about historical issues of the Holocaust and genocide; elimination of racism, anti-Semitism and all forms of prejudice that damage society; and development of creative programs and activities regarding these crucial human issues.

For more information, call the center at (732) 224-2769 or log on to www.holocaustbcc.org.

from The Advocate

April 27, 2006

Israel acknowledges gay Holocaust victims for first time

Gays and lesbians in Israel have been invited to participate in Holocaust memorial services for the first time. Two members of Jerusalem Open House, the LGBT center, placed a wreath in the name of the gay community at the foot of the Warsaw Ghetto rebellion monument at Yad Vashem, the memorial to the millions who were exterminated by the Nazis.

The Nazi regime was responsible for the murder of millions of Jews in the Holocaust. Among the other minorities that were pursued by the Nazis were gay people, who were systematically persecuted. The Nazis required what they called “sexual deviants” to wear the pink triangle.

Under Paragraph 175 of the German penal code, which banned sexual intimacy between members of the same sex, an untold number of gays and lesbians were rounded up by the Nazis and send to concentration camps, where they were subjected to medical experiments, including lobotomies, and forced to work in labor camps.

The number of gays sent to the camps ranges from 5,000 to 15,000, many of them having been sent to the gas chambers. (Sirius OutQ News)

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How to talk to students about Holocaust

Apr. 25, 2006 12:00 AM

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, and news coverage of the event and discussions at school could prompt kids to ask some very big questions about what happened and why. Here are some guidelines on how to talk to kids about the Holocaust from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

At the site are places for students to learn more about the Holocaust and for teachers to form lesson plans. For more information, see ushmm.org and click on the education tab.

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Our Holocaust - and others’
By Benyamin Neuberger

In Israel, there is a conviction that the Holocaust is unique, that it cannot be compared to any other case of genocide. This perception is irrational, problematic from the moral perspective and also contrary to its aim - the intensification of Holocaust awareness.

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Holocaust program keeping stories alive
Students to ‘remake’ lives of four survivors as part of May 7 event
BY SETH MANDEL
Staff Writer

MONROE - For many Holocaust survivors, liberation from Nazi concentration camps was only the beginning of their stories of survival, and the survival of their stories.

That will be the theme of the Henry Ricklis Holocaust Memorial Committee’s annual program in observance of Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day.

While the official Holocaust Remembrance Day was Tuesday, the program is scheduled for May 7 due to the availability of the performing arts center at Monroe Township High School.

Program director Nina Wolff said the lighting of yahrzeit candles will take place at 1 p.m., followed at 1:30 by the program, called “Beyond the Holocaust: The Remaking of Lives.”