News & Features: Descendants of Dutch farmers and Jewish couple they hid to meet at San Francisco event 
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J Weekly
by Patricia Corrigan
The grandson of a Jewish couple hidden in the Netherlands during World War II and the grandson of the Dutch couple who sheltered them will meet for the first time on Sunday, May 1, during a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at the JCC of San Francisco.
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Posted by Admin on April 28, 2016
Editorial: Remember the Holocaust by caring for its aged survivors
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The horrors of the Holocaust are seared into the collective Jewish consciousness. For those old enough to have lived through the war, it is part of their personal memory. For younger American Jews, it remains a defining factor in their Jewish identity, as poll after poll reveals.
That will not necessarily be so for future generations, as the narrative of the Nazi genocide moves into the pages of history books.
Certainly the best way to ensure that the story remains vital is to hear it told by those who lived through it — the survivors themselves. That includes… Read More
Posted by Admin on April 28, 2016
San Francisco’s Observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day Honors Young Artists, Musicians, and Poets on May 1 
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The Righteous Among the Nations Award Will Be Presented by the State of Israel as Part of the Yom HaShoah Ceremony
For Immediate Release: Thursday, April 21, 2016 (San Francisco, CA) – Community members are invited to observe Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, on Sunday, May 1 at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. This year’s observance, titled Out of the Shadows: Rediscovering Artists, Musicians, and Poets, will include performances, workshops, and a Memorial Ceremony focusing on the young artists, musicians, and scholars whose lives were cut short because of the Holocaust.
During the Memorial Ceremony there will be… Read More
Posted by Admin on April 21, 2016
Book Launch! Never the Last Road: A Partisan’s Life 
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Never the Last Road:
A Partisan’s Life
By Mira Shelub and Fred Rosenbaum
Mira Shelub is a partisan and a familiar face to many Bay Area students who have had the privilege of hearing her speak. Never the Last Road: A Partisan’s Life has just been released and tells Mira’s miraculous story.
Barely twenty years old, Mira escaped from a Nazi labor camp to join the Jewish Resistance in the forest. She fought back against radical evil and began a passionate love affair that would last a lifetime.
Published by Lehrhaus Judaica in partnership with Jewish Family and Children’s… Read More
Posted by Admin on May 1, 2015
An Answer to Anti-Semitism and Intolerance: The JFCS Holocaust Center 
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Anti-Semitism is on the rise—not just in Europe, but around the globe. At JFCS, we take this very seriously, standing with the communities that have been attacked by recent events and working closely with other organizations across the country and in Israel to counter growing anti-Semitism. Because anti-Semitism and other forms of hate can lead to extreme acts of violence against people—including genocides— the JFCS Holocaust Center, which holds more than 2,000 oral histories and testimonies from Bay Area survivors and witnesses to the Holocaust, believes that the need to educate others about the lessons of the Holocaust is… Read More
Posted by Admin on March 6, 2015
The site of Auschwitz-Birkenau 
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The wooden barracks, stretching off into seeming infinity as the gaps between them are shrouded in a thick white fog, the layers of barbed wire fence with pencil-trunked trees and green grass just beyond the environs of the camp. The atmosphere here is just as I’d seen it in the recurring bad dreams I’d had when I first was taught about Auschwitz-Birkena through viewings of the film Night and Fog. Though I understand that this documentary isn’t used any more, it was the educational tool in my generation; and as we enter the galleries with the grotesque piles of… Read More
Posted by Admin on October 29, 2014