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Walking past the countless photos of Holocaust survivors and victims at Warsaw’s POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in 2016, New York-native Daniel Patt was haunted by the possibility that he was passing the faces of his own relatives without even knowing it. For Patt, a 40-year-old software engineer now working for Google, that sort of conundrum presented the potential for a creative solution. And so he set to work creating and developing From Numbers to Names (N2N), an artificial intelligence-driven facial recognition platform that can scan through photos from prewar Europe and the Holocaust, linking them to...

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An elderly Jewish couple and Holocaust survivors were brutally beaten and robbed in their Holland apartment a month ago. Samuel and Diana Blug was beaten and tied up in a violent anti-Semitic attack. ... the couple were only able to come forward now and recount what happened to them. The Blugs say two men, who looked to be of Moroccan descent, knocked on the door to their apartment, claiming to be the police and demanding entrance. As soon as Samuel opened the door, the nightmare began. Two men dressed in black barged into the apartment and started severely beating the...

He survived the savagery of the Holocaust, made it to America with barely a penny and became a world-famous tailor in Brooklyn, dressing celebrities and presidents. In his new memoir, “Measure of a Man,” Martin Greenfield tells the story of his extraordinary life. In this excerpt, he explains how the concentration camps nearly stripped him of his humanity at age 16 — and the day he got it back. While at Buchenwald, the SS assigned me to work in the munitions factory. But early one morning after roll call, a soldier placed me on a 12-prisoner team to perform repairs...

THE HAGUE (JTA) — The City of Amsterdam fined hundreds of Jewish Holocaust survivors for failing to pay taxes while they were in hiding or in concentration camps. The affair was exposed in an article in Het Parool, a local daily, on March 30. Many of the houses in question were confiscated and used by members of the NSB Dutch Nazi party while the Jewish owners were in hiding or in camps. The city went after survivors as late as 1947, the report said. Other Dutch municipalities waived such debts, Het Parool reported. The following year the city agreed to...

- 10:03:00 PM Days of Remembrance event is Sunday Holocaust survivors Herman Schloss, Irene Danon and Abe Greenberg gathered in Prescott on Monday. PRESCOTT - Irene Danon, 82, said she survived the Holocaust in the former Yugoslavia by hiding from the Nazis during World War II. And while the Nazis killed several of her family members in concentration camps, Danon said she has learned to forgive the Germans and other nationalities responsible for the genocide of 6 million Jews. "I hope to show the world the Holocaust really happened, and in order to move on and heal myself, I have...

The Holocaust as Seen in 2011 By Ari Bussel It was ten a.m. in Israel on the Holocaust and Bravery Remembrance Day, and I stood in a city square as the siren started. It sounded somewhat distant, yet touched every nerve in my body. People stopped, instantly frozen in their tracks. Cars stopped, their doors opened and the drivers and passengers exited. No one was honking. No one was talking. Everyone stood straight, silent, their heads bowed. In this two-minute freeze-frame time span even the birds ceased their spring celebration. All was still, an entire nation respecting its dead, six...

NEW YORK - Holocaust survivors said Monday they were abandoning negotiations with the Mormon church over its posthumous baptisms of Jews who were killed in Nazi death camps. Survivors claim elders of the Salt Lake City-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints have refused to systemically search for and remove the names of Holocaust victims from their master genealogical database and have failed to prevent "zealots" from adding thousands of new Jewish names to the list in recent years - including thousands lifted from Yizkor books of Jews massacred at Berdichev in Ukraine. "We are not going to continue...

http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politics&loid=8.0.343902337&par=0 IRAN: HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS INVITE AHMADINEJAD TO AUSCHWITZ (AKI) - by Ahmad Rafat - Noah Flug, the president of the International Association of Holocaust Srvivors, has sent a letter to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad offering to accompany him on a guided tour of Auschwitz. Flug, an 81-year-old retired economist, lives in Jerusalem. He was only 14 when the Nazis occupied his home town Lodz, in Poland, forcing his family to move inside the ghetto. Two years later Noah was in the concentration camp at Auschwitz, then he was moved to Mathausen and subsequently to Ebensee, where he was freed by...

Whether religious or secular, most Israelis are familiar with the Talmudic statement that "He who saves a life is as if he has saved the entire world." Perhaps no one understands this more clearly than a pleasant, soft-spoken, 53-year-old Ra'anana resident who for more than 20 years has waged a relentless and often lonely campaign to determine the whereabouts of Raoul Wallenberg, savior of 100,000 Jewish lives. By the spring of 1944 the Nazis had succeeded in wiping out every sizable Jewish community in Europe except for the 700,000 Jews remaining in Budapest, Hungary. By late June, Adolf Eichmann had...

<p>The Supreme Court struck down a state law intended to help Holocaust survivors collect on insurance policies from the Nazi era, ruling yesterday that the law was unconstitutional meddling by states in foreign affairs.</p> <p>The court decided 5-4 to side with the Bush administration, which had urged the court to strike down the law. The administration said the law hurts the government's efforts to speak "with one voice" in international affairs.</p>