Tag: Holocaust

Barbara Kay: Overlooking the Facts in Favour of Empty Virtue Signalling Does a Disservice to Everyone, Including the Victims

Commentary On May 30, 2021, the Canadian Federation of Students issued a statement to Canadian schools, declaring: “On Thursday, May 27, the remains of 215 Indigenous children were found buried in an unmarked mass grave at the Kamloops Residential School [in British Columbia]. These were acts of cultural violence, genocide and colonialism.” Within days, this…


Sisters Who Survived Holocaust Die Days Apart in Alabama

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Two sisters who survived the Holocaust as girls and moved to the United States afterward died just days apart in their adopted home of Alabama. The Alabama Holocaust Education Center said Ruth Scheuer Siegler died Saturday at the age of 95. Her sister, Ilse Scheuer Nathan, died 10 days earlier at the age of…


‘Finding Manny’: A Holocaust Survivor’s Story of Hope

Commentary Don’t miss the award-winning EpochTV documentary “Finding Manny,” which travels with a Holocaust survivor as he retraces his life journey, telling his story of endurance and hope. From Poland to Germany, Manny Drukier confronts his past and shares his experiences. Manny’s daughter, NTD’s “The Nation Speaks” host Cindy Drukier, and her husband, host of EpochTV’s “American…


Rabbi Abraham Cooper: Communism Is Threatened by Individuality

I speak with Rabbi Abraham Cooper, who was elected as vice chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. We discuss his experience seeing the fall of the Soviet Union, what the concerns are in China when it comes to human rights, and his last trip to Hong Kong. We also look into…


Cinema Film Review: ‘Finding Manny’

NR | 57m | Documentary | 2020 Manny Drukier narrowly escaped his demise during World War II by jumping from a “death train” as a teenager and managing to find refuge at a home for orphans. Produced by Long Trek Home Productions, the 2020 Holocaust documentary, “Finding Manny,” is the almost hour-long real-life story of…


Polish Man Who Rescued Jews During the Holocaust Dies at 102

WARSAW, Poland—Józef Walaszczyk, a member of the Polish resistance who rescued dozens of Jews during the Nazi German occupation of Poland during World War II, has died aged 102. Walaszczyk died on Monday, according to the Institute of National Remembrance, a Polish state historical body. Walaszczyk fell in love during the war with a Jewish…


Finding Manny | Documentary

The chance discovery of an article sends a Holocaust survivor on an unexpected trip to visit the orphanage where he was rescued to after the war. Manny Drukier narrowly escaped the war by jumping from a “death train” at age 16, finding refuge at a unique home for orphans and displaced children. Seventy-one years later,…


[PREMIERING JUNE 4, 7:30 PM ET] Finding Manny | Documentary

The chance discovery of an article sends a Holocaust survivor on an unexpected trip to visit the orphanage where he was rescued to after the war. Manny Drukier narrowly escaped the war by jumping from a “death train” at age 16, finding refuge at a unique home for orphans and displaced children. Seventy-one years later,…


Arizona on Track, for Now, for 1st Execution Since 2014

PHOENIX—Arizona remains on track, at least for now, to use the death penalty for the first time in nearly eight years in an execution in which a condemned prisoner is being given the option of being put to death by the gas chamber—a method that hasn’t been used in the United States in decades. Clarence…


A Father and Son’s Journey Back to Auschwitz

“Shmuel’s Bridge: Following the Tracks to Auschwitz with My Survivor Father” is a poetically written memoir about a man and his aging father journeying back to Auschwitz to retrace his father’s footsteps during the Holocaust, and find the bridge where his father’s youngest brother was killed trying to escape the Nazis. Jason Sommer is an…