Titanic survivor’s signed life jacket sells for over $900,000
Laura Mabel Francatelli was on Titanic’s lifeboat No. 1, with only eleven other passengers, despite the small vessel's 40-person capacity.
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Ink and irony: A closer look at the cartoonist who chronicled Israel’s formative years
British professor uncovers location of Shakespeare’s London home using previously unknown documents
'Godfather of denim’: an Italian designer whose Jewish father was murdered at Auschwitz
Researchers say they’ve traced Shakespeare’s London lodgings at last
The precise location of William Shakespeare’s only London home was identified in Blackfriars after researchers uncovered a previously unknown floorplan.
Newly published documents belonging to Israel's first prime minister reveal eerily relevant message
Ben-Gurion recognized early on what became a well-known reality in the following decades: front lines that reach population centers, and the home front becoming a critical component of the war.
‘The Jewish Revolt: A Warsaw Ghetto Exhibition’ turns memory into witness - review
Auerbach arrived in Warsaw in 1933 as a journalist and has dedicated her life to remembering Holocaust victims.
This month in Jewish history: History, memory, destiny
A highly abridged monthly version of Dust & Stars.
Hampshire College, incubator of Yiddish Book Center, pioneer in Holocaust studies, to close
The closure, which follows semester after years of financial troubles, won’t affect the Yiddish Book Center, which operates on land purchased from the college in Amherst, Massachusetts.
KKL-JNF unveils new photographs of Forest of the Martyrs to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day
“The Forest of the Martyrs is far more than a memorial site; it is the living and growing testament to the triumph of the Jewish and Zionist spirit," said KKL-JNF Chairman Eyal Ostrinsky.
From Lithuania to Jerusalem, a Holocaust survivor shares his story with diplomats
At the event organized by Zikaron Basalon and the Anti-Defamation League at the latter’s Jerusalem office, Clevs brought the diplomats back in time to when he was eight years old.
Florida Jewish community says kaddish for children killed in Holocaust
The Conservative synagogue calls the program "Remember a Child," and at least a third of the members in the 150-family congregation participate.
German pro-Israel activist, granddaughter of Nazis, warns: 'Antisemitism is threat to democracy'
Karoline Preisler, the granddaughter of a Nazi soldier and one of Germany's most well-known pro-Palestinian rally counter-protesters, warned about antisemitism in an interview with Walla.
The shadow of Aushchwitz's Angel of Death: The horrors of Dr. Mengele
The blood-soaked history of the twentieth century remembers no darker medical figure than Josef Mengele. His atrocities included the severe torture of twins and people with disabilities.
