// The RUTH Exhibition: The San Diego Public Library Commemorates the Holocaust
The RUTH Holocaust exhibition is a result of a partnership with the County of San Diego and the Jewish Federation of San Diego.
The RUTH Holocaust exhibition is a result of a partnership with the County of San Diego and the Jewish Federation of San Diego.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has visited the site of one of the most horrific single mass murders of the Holocaust.
It has been eight decades since the Vel d’Hiv roundup of Jewish families in France, (July 16-17, 1942)…
The Florida Holocaust Museum, located in St, Petersburg, was founded in 1992 by Walter and Edith Lobenberg…
The massacre of Jews at Babyn Yar outside Kiev in Ukraine has a special place in the annals of human inhumanity.
Located in the capital of the Nazi regime, The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (also known as the Holocaust Memorial)…
Founded in 1998, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) is composed of 34 member countries…
The USC Shoah Foundation is a nonprofit organization that has recorded and archived tens of thousands of audio and video testimonials by survivors of the Holocaust.
Since the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opened in 1993, some 40 million people…
The State of Israel’s official memorial to the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis, Yad Vashem, was established in 1953.
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WOW! FACTS
Inventor of the mobile phone, “Father of the Internet,” inventor of the video game cosole, inventor fo the laser, inventor of the gramophone, creator of the Barbie Doll, creator of the cruise ship, “Father of Immunology,” inventor fo the modern condom (!), a prime minister of the U.K., a three-time prime minister of France, a president of Switzerland and the primary financier of the American Revolution?
We knew you could guess… all of them are (or were) Jews!
To learn about these and many more AmazingJews, watch a compilation put together by JewOfTheWeek.net in 2015 and posted on YouTube. >>
Nobel Prizes
Although Jews are less than two-tenths of one percent of the world’s population, more than 20% of Nobel Prize winners have been Jewish. Source: Google
Polio Vaccine
Millions and millions of people worldwide have been spared the ravages of poliomyelitis — including paralysis and even death — thanks to research conducted by Jewish scientist Dr. Jonas Salk and his team. The Salk vaccine entered widespread use in the U.S. in 1955. Source: Wikipedia
Miss Liberty
The words “…give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…” on the Statue of Liberty were written by Emma Lazarus, a Jew. Source: BuzzFeed
Blue Jeans
Levi Strauss, an immigrant from Germany, invented his blue jeans in 1873. Source: BuzzFeed
Start-Up Nation
Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship in the world. It has the highest rate of entrepreneurship among women and people over 55 in the world. Source: BuzzFeed