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Gabriella Irizarry, Daphny Milord, Aaron David, Jacob Davis and Emma Gartenstein sang “Eli Eli” at Holocaust Remembrance Day at Lawrence Woodmere Academy on May 10.

Lawrence Woodmere Academy remembers the Holocaust [Photo gallery]

Lawrence Woodmere Academy held a Holocaust Remembrance Day assembly on May 10 that commemorated the victims and survivors of the systematic killing of 6 million European Jews as well as 7 million other people under the Nazi Germany regime of the 1930s and ’40s. more

5/18/16

The Hebrew Academy of Long Beach’s fifth-grade choir, under the direction of Sandy Shmuley, performed at the Holocaust remembrance service.

Remembering to tell the Holocaust Story

More than 1,000 people representing the Five Towns and surrounding communities and 24 area synagogues gathered in Congregation Beth Sholom in Lawrence on May 4, Holocaust Reme mbrance Day, to honor both the victims and survivors of Nazi Germany’s cultural genocide. more

5/11/16

The Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan and the Holocaust story it shows made a huge impact on the HAFTR students.

HAFTR students visit a ‘living memorial’

Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway (HAFTR) Middle School seventh graders visited the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan on April 12. The students experienced many emotions as they walked through the “living memorial.” more

5/2/16

The Van der Veer family, of Stein, Holland, hid Rachel Slagter for two years during the Holocaust. Clockwise from top left in this family photo, taken in 1950, were Hans, Sjoerd, Andries, Marjie, Jantje, Andries and Aaltje Van der Veer.

A Holocaust remembrance

For many Five Towns residents, the Holocaust is much more than a dusty memory on the shelf of history. It’s a living, breathing series of events that must be remembered. more

By Jeff Bessen | 4/27/16

Nassau County is offering its up to $5,000 reward for information about the swastikas that were spray painted on the pillars of a Cedarhurst garage.

$5,000 reward offered in latest Cedarhurst swastika incident

A reward of up to $5,000 is being offering by the Nassau County police and Crime Stoppers for information that leads to an arrest of the person pr persons responsible for spray painting two swastikas on the pillars of a garage on Maple Avenue in Cedarhurst between March 25 at 4:30 p.m. and March 28 at 10:30 a.m. more

By Jeff Bessen | 3/31/16

Eva Ebin, Rachel Gleitman AND VERA Eden, left to right, nd Vera Eden escaped death when a shower head used to release poison gas malfunctioned at the concentration camp in Auschwitz.

Reunited after 70 years

A malfunctioning gas chamber shower head saved the lives of three women from Munkacs, Czechoslovakia, in May 1945 at Auschwitz, one of several Nazi concentration camps. Shortly after their brush with death, Auschwitz was liberated by Allied forces. more

By Vanessa Parker | 11/25/15

Atlantic Beach resident and Holocaust survivor Bernard Suskind wrote a book, titled “We Were Fair Game,” in both English and German.

Holocaust survivor tells his story

Bernard Suskind, a 93-year-old Atlantic Beach resident, recalls the date, Nov. 10, 1938, as though it were yesterday. It was the day his life changed forever. Bernard and his father, Alfred, were taken from their hometown of Furstenau, in northern Germany, to Buchenwald, one of the Nazi concentration camps. more

By Vanessa Parker | 9/16/15

Newsday's double standard is shocking

In April 2014, two students at St. Anthony’s High School, in South Huntington, brought a Confederate flag to a sporting event. They were subsequently expelled. Later that month, Newsday published an editorial . . . more

7/29/15

Holocaust Remembrance Day was commemorated by many Five Towns synagogues during two events on Wednesday. Above, Polish-born Holocaust survivor Meyer Hack showed his prisoner number that was branded on his arm.

Commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day

Calling it one of the most important events in Jewish history, Rabbi Steven Graber, the spiritual leader of Temple Hillel in North Woodmere, listed two other reasons why the Holocaust should be remembered. more

By Jeff Bessen | 4/16/15

Far Rockaway resident Belle Silverstein spoke at HAFTR about when she was rescued by the Kindertransport at the beginning of the Holocaust.

Kristallnacht story recounted by an eyewitness

Hebrew Academy of The Five Towns and Rockaway (HAFTR) High School students recently had the privilege of hearing the story of Belle Silverstein, a Far Rockaway resident, who as a child, was saved from the widespread violence in Germany by the Kindertransport. more

By Daniel Maron | 12/3/14

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