In a 23-22 vote, the US House of Foreign Affairs passed a non-binding resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide on Friday March 5, calling for President Obama to officially recognize the genocide. The White House pressured the committee not to pass it, claiming it would damage Turkish-American relations.

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An amazing story from the Times Online about Denis Avey who, in 1944, swapped identities with a Dutch Jew, infiltrated and then escaped Auschwitz in order to gather intelligence for Britain.

Read it here

On April 11, Holocaust Remembrance Day, PBS will be airing a new docu-drama, the "most accurate-ever adaptation of one of the world's most widely read memoirs," based on The Diary of Anne Frank.

PBS is partnering with the Great Books Foundation and Facing History & Ourselves to promote both the film and educational resources/opportunities including:

• a teacher's guide written in partnership with Facing History and Ourselves
• discussion guide for book and film clubs

The Holocaust Awareness Museum is sad to announce the passing away of Melvin Newman, a long time friend, volunteer and colleague.
Melvin was a World War II veteran who, along with hundreds of other young Jewish GIs, liberated concentration camps. Along with the Jewish War Veterans Post 697, he created a Holocaust project to educate young people.

Servant to Truth from the Bucks County Courier Times

St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia is hosting the 40th Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches this year from March 6-8.

The theme this year is “Crisis & Credibility in the Jewish Christian World: Remembering Franklin H. Littell”

For more information and to register, visit the event webpage at St. Joseph's University

On Wednesday January 27th, the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Holocaust Survivor Kurt Herman spoke to members of the Planned Parenthood-sponsored Rainbow Room in Doylestown PA.
The Rainbow Room is a regional center for lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgendered youth who need a supportive, safe, and empowering environment where their needs and questions can be answered.

The Holocaust Awareness Museum joins the world in remembering the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet army on January 27, 1945.
We invite you to join the Holocaust Awareness Museum and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in remembering this day. International Holocaust Remembrance Day

UPDATE

We are pleased to provide you with a new survivor biography of Belle Ostroff, who hid for 4 years through the German occupation of France. Her biography can be viewed and downloaded here.

Kurt Herman's biography has been added and can be viewed and downloaded here.

Manya Frydman Perel's biography has been added and can be downloaded here.

Holocaust survivor Michael Hershkovitz told his Peco/Exelon audience that one Saturday morning, in 1942, his normal middle class existence came to an abrupt end when German soldiers marched into his small village in Czecklosovakia. He saw disrespect, abuse, cruelty, and murder as he and his family moved to tent cities, railroad cars, and finally concentration camps.