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Archyde April 8, 2021 by archyde Posted8 avril 2021, 07:12 An 18-year-old Polish woman has created a website that masquerades as a beauty store but offers help to victims of domestic violence. Polish teenager Krysia Paszko, creator of a website for victims of domestic violence, works on a computer in her family home in a Warsaw suburb on February 23, 2021. AFP Worried about an increase in cases of domestic violence during confinement, Krysia Paszko, an 18-year-old Polish woman, has created a we...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, (Shutterstock) Today is Yom HaShoah, the Israeli observed Holocaust Memorial Day. This differs from the UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is marked in January. The difference? Yo...

Holocaust survivors harness social media to spread knowledge DAVID RISING, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 6 1of6FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014 file photo, the Yellow Star badge of Heinz-Joachim Aris (Dresden 1941) reading Jew is displayed in a showcase during a press preview in the new special exhibition Shoes of the Dead - Dresden and the Shoah at the Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany. Before local anti-Jewish laws were enacted, before neighborhood shops ...

April 08, 2021 - 12:55 AM JERUSALEM - Israelis stood in silence on Thursday as a two-minute siren wailed across the country in remembrance of the Holocaust’s 6 million Jewish victims. Public buses and cars stopped on the streets and highways, and pedestrians stood in place in memory of those killed in the Nazi genocide. The annual memorial is one of the most sombre days in the Israeli calendar, marking the anniversary of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising — the most signi...

Gazeta Wyborcza’s front page reads ‘Media without choice’ in February, protesting against the new media tax. Photograph: Wojtek Radwański/AFP/Getty Images Democracy dies in darkness. One of the European Union’s most fragile democracies, Poland, now faces the spectre of the night that falls when public service media have been turned into propaganda organs for a ruling party while private, independent media are suffocated...

3 shares Robert Philpot is a writer and journalist. He is the former editor of Progress magazine and author of “Margaret Thatcher: The Honorary Jew.” Left: Chaim Herszman in Germany in 1946, Right: John Carr, author of Escape From the Ghetto, the story of his fathers audacious escape from the Nazis. (Courtesy John Carr) LONDON — It was the moment that undoubtedly saved Chaim Herszman’s life. In February 1940, the 13-year-old stabbed and fatally wounded a Nazi guard in the Lodz Ghe...

ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn Israelis are marking their annual memorial day for the Holocaust’s 6 million Jewish victims ByThe Associated Press • 2 min read Israel faces 2nd lockdown amid spiking COVID-19 cases Stores shutter in Jerusalem as Israel enters into a second lockdown over COVID-19 for three weeks during the Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur holidays.The Associated Press JERUSALEM -- Israelis stood in silence on Thursday as a t...

2021-04-07 22:36:07 GMT2021-04-08 06:36:07(Beijing Time) Xinhua English WARSAW, April 7 (Xinhua) -- Poland will extend its partial lockdown until April 18, as the current wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is stretching the health care system to its limit, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said on Wednesday. The partial lockdown was set to expire on April 10 under the original plan. Wednesdays decision meant that gyms, theaters and gastronomic businesses will remain closed, while large retail ...

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UVM Senior and Holocaust Studies Minor Julia Kitonis and friend Julia Kitonis is a Senior theatre major and Holocaust studies minor from northern Vermont. She declared her Holocaust studies minor at the start of her freshman year, the program being one of the many things that drew her to UVM. Having completed the basic European history requirement in advance of starting at UVM, she was able to enroll immediately in Professor Jonathan Huener’s class in Polish history. Having completed th...