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Taboo-breaking film depicts Hungary’s grim welcome to Holocaust survivors

By Cnaan Liphshiz (JTA) — The time is just after the defeat of Nazi Germany. Two Orthodox Jews disembark from a train at a rural…


Shalom Italia: Three Italian brothers try to find the cave they lived in during the Holocaust

By Gabe Friedman (JTA) — Renting a house in the Italian countryside and eating loads of pasta is about as blissful a vacation as they…


An incredible Holocaust escape story, proven by science

By Tom Tugend LOS ANGELES (JTA) – A one-hour TV program airing this week on PBS links an incredible Holocaust escape story to advanced scientific…


Prince Charles recalls grandmother’s rescue of Jews from Holocaust

(JTA) — Prince Charles of Wales spoke with Holocaust survivors in Austria about his grandmother’s role in saving the lives of a Jewish family during…


Try not to cry during this Oscar-nominated film about a Holocaust survivor and his violin

By Curt Schleier (JTA) — Filmmaker Kahane Cooperman hasn’t written an Oscars acceptance speech yet, but she likely will before the Academy Awards ceremony on Feb….