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City Council Speaker Tours Southern Brooklyn Senior Centers

Photo by William Alatriste/NYC CouncilCity Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and Councilman Mark Treyger toured local senior centers, health facilities, and community hubs earlier this week to bring attention to the over $6.7 million in funding to these invaluable New York City institutions. Among the visited locations were the

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Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz Invites Students In His District To Enter 2015 Holocaust Memorial Creative Arts Contest

Click to enlargeAssemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz is inviting students in grades three through 12, who live or go to school in the 45th Assembly District [http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Steven-Cymbrowitz/map/], to enter his 2015 Holocaust Memorial Creative Arts Contest. With an unprecedented resurgence of anti-Semitic acts raging across

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Brooklyn Public Library And Aquila Theater Company Present “YouStories Of Holocaust & Veteran Survivors”

Local Holocaust survivors. Photo by Erica ShermanThe Aquila Theater Company and the Brooklyn Public Library are teaming up to stage dramatic readings of Sophocles’ “Philoctetes,” Euripides’ “Herakles,” Homer’s “Odyssey” and Sophocles’ “Ajax” for veterans, Holocaust survivors and the general public, this Saturday, September 6 at 12:00pm at Brooklyn

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Holocaust Survivors To Commemorate 70th Anniversary Of D-Day At Memorial Park On Sunday

The following is a flier from the Holocaust Memorial Committee:

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Local Philanthropist Eugene Shkolnikov Scores $10,000 For Kings Bay Y Youth Leadership Program

Shkolnikov, left, presents Kings Bay Y Executive Director Leonard Petlakh with a check as Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz and City Council candidates David Storobin and Chaim Deutsch look on.Neighbors gathered with Kings Bay YM-YWHA members, local leaders and Holocaust survivors on Sunday to celebrate the contributions of boardmember Eugene Shkolnikov,

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Brighton Beach Holocaust Fund Scammer Jailed For Neary Two Years

Source: Tracy O. via FlickrThe forger of phony papers that allowed a Brighton Beach-based ring of individuals to ripoff more than $57 million from a reparations fund for Holocaust victims [/local-scammers-bilk-holocaust-survivor-fund/] was sentenced to serve nearly two years in prison last week. The New York Post reports [http://www.nypost.

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German Government Comes To Aid Of Holocaust Survivors Affected By Sandy

Photo by Joe ComperiatiIt’s hard to put into words the scope of the tragedy of the Holocaust. The millions of victims of that outrage should never be forgotten and the few survivors that remain living should never be ignored. Life, with all its joys and sorrows, carries on, and

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Holocaust Scam Cohort Pleads Guilty To Stealing $150K From Survivors

Honoring real survivors at a Holocaust Memorial Park ceremony. Photo by Erica ShermanA disturbing scheme that has been running [/local-scammers-bilk-holocaust-survivor-fund/] since 1994, which bilked a Holocaust survivors fund of $57 million, may finally be coming to a close. The scam was uncovered in 2009 after an FBI sting, and a

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Storobin Assists Holocaust Survivor Hit With Illegal Pension Tax From Germany

Image courtesy of the office of State Senator David StorobinWhen she was a young girl, Klara Zubutova was detained as a prisoner at a concentration camp. Today, the Holocaust survivor is entitled to pension payments from the German government, which are not subject to taxation. Last week, Zubutova received a

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Holocaust Fund Fraudster Sentenced To One Year

The first of 19 cases pending against a fraud ring that scammed millions of dollars from a Holocaust survivors fund has ended with the defendant receiving a year in prison [http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=233051] and an order to pay back $105,000. Polina Anoshina,

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EZRA USA Hosts Holocaust Memorial Day Event

Members of the Russian-Jewish youth movement EZRA USA @ Brooklyn [http://ny.ezraworld.org/about-ezra-ezra-usa-today/snifim-ezra-usa/ezra-usa-brooklyn.html] will be hosting their annual commemoration of Yom Ha’Shoah — Holocaust Memorial Day — in remembrance of the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. The ceremony, May 1 at 3 p.m. inside