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Tributes paid to ‘extraordinary’ Holocaust survivor who served his community for 40 years

Paul Porgess was first elected to Stockport council in 1978, winning the old Cheadle East seat in a shock by-election result.

Manchester Evening News · Apr 24, 2023

A story of atonement: Former Heat player Meyers Leonard’s path from antisemitic slur to rabbinical embrace as Miami’s playoff opponent

MIAMI — This was not how Meyers Leonard envisioned his return.

Tribune News Service · Apr 22, 2023

Daffodils bloom as symbol of Warsaw ghetto uprising memory

Yellow daffodils are everywhere in Warsaw this week, a symbol of remembrance of the 1943 uprising by Jews in the city's ghetto against Nazi Germany

The Independent UK · Apr 20, 2023

Another long COVID impact studied, activists prep for DNC and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is about an eight-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 19, 2023

Auschwitz museum urges visitors to respect site after woman's photo sparks fury

Last week a photo of a woman posing taken and shared by Maria Murphy at the Auschwitz concentration camp museum went viral, causing huge amounts of outrage on Twitter

Daily Mirror · Apr 19, 2023

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemorated on 80th anniversary

Presidents and Holocaust survivors and their descendants are marking the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The Independent UK · Apr 19, 2023

The world remembers the Warsaw ghetto uprising, 80 years on

On 19 April 1943, several hundred poorly armed inhabitants of the Warsaw ghetto began to resist Nazi Germany's efforts to deport Jews to the death camps. The civilian fighters resisted for 27 days. The Germans subsequently burned the ghetto to the ground.

Radio France Internationale · Apr 19, 2023

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, a suburban Chicago survivor remembers

The stories of people like Ralph Rehbock, 88, who lives in Northbrook — whose family fled Nazi Germany when he was 4 — are important to be preserved and shared.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 19, 2023

Meek Mill joins Patriots owner Robert for Holocaust march in Poland

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is leading a delegation that includes rapper Meek Mill on a march in Poland to honor victims and survivors of the Holocaust

The Independent UK · Apr 18, 2023

For Yom HaShoah, My Grandmother's Memoir of Life in Poland 1905-21

Today is Yom HoShoah, the annual Jewish Day of Remembrance for victims of the Shoah (Holocaust). I haven't done so for a while, so I'm posting a link to my paternal grandmother's memoir of her life in a shtetl in Poland. It wasn't a pleasant one. Her father died shortly…

Reason · Apr 18, 2023