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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 website that masquerades as a cosmetics store but in fact offers secret help to victims. “I was insp...

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? Yom HaShoah marks the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when Jews held off the Nazis for nearly a month with smu...

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 and synagogues were destroyed, and before Jews were forced into ghettos, cattle cars, and camps,...

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 significant act of Jewish resistance against Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. The Holocaust is a keysto...

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. In the end, light is cast no more on the failings and abuses of those in power, because there are ...