admin | May 16, 2022
This article appears in the spring issue of University ofDenver Magazine. Visit themagazine websitefor bonus content and to read this and other articles in their original format. Fourteen years after meeting ceramicist Trudy Strauss, artist and professor Deborah Howards new portrait of the Holocaust survivor is on display in DUs Anderson Academic Commons
admin | May 6, 2022
"The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may happen again, to others not necessarily Jews, perpetrated by others, not necessarily Germans. We are all possible victims, possible perpetrators, possible bystanders."Yehuda Bauer Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazi regime and their collaborators murdered six million European Jews and five million non-Jews
admin | May 6, 2022
Like this gallery?Share it: 1 of 46 Jewish prisoners arrive at the Auschwitz concentration camp, mid-1944.German Federal Archives via Wikimedia Commons 2 of 46 Wedding rings forcibly removed from prisoners and confiscated by the Nazis, May 1945.U.S. Army/National Archives 3 of 46 An unidentified boy raises his arms as German soldiers capture Polish Jews during the Warsaw ghetto uprising sometime between April 19 and May 16, 1943.United States Holocaust Memorial Museum via Wikimedia Commons 4 of 46 A Russian survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp identifies for the liberating U.S.
admin | May 6, 2022
Here is the foundational narrative on which I was raised: In March 1933, my great-uncle Arthur Kahn walked out of his apartment in Wrzburg, Germany, for what was supposed to be a short Easter-break trip to see relatives.
admin | May 6, 2022
SEMBACH, Germany The United States commemorates the victims of Nazi atrocities every year during the Holocaust Days of Remembrance in April. The theme this year was Determination, Hope and Honor.
admin | May 6, 2022
In September 1941, German forces invading the Soviet Union took the city of Kyiv, in what is now the nation of Ukraine, and soon afterward perpetrated one of the most horrific acts of genocide in history. On September 29, they forced much of Kyivs Jewish population to go to Babi Yar, also known as Babyn Yar, a ravine located just outside the city. After being ordered to undress, the victims were forced into the ravine, where they were shot by the SS and German police units and their auxiliaries.
admin | April 20, 2022
On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorated each year on 27 January, UNESCO pays tribute to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust and reaffirms its commitment to counter antisemitism, racism, and other forms of intolerance. In 2017, UNESCO released a policy guide on Education about the Holocaust and preventing genocide, to provide effective responses and a wealth of recommendations for education stakeholders
admin | April 20, 2022
Ronnie Bogard| Special to The Oak Ridger The Jewish Congregation of Oak Ridge and the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church have partnered to present the annual community Holocaust Remembrance Program from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, April 24, on Zoom and in person at JCOR, 101 W.
admin | April 20, 2022
NEW YORK -- A full-circle moment is happening at Carnegie Hall this week for a holocaust survivor from Greece. After being freed from Auschwitz, Michel Assael wrote a symphonic poem in memory of those killed at the concentration camp
admin | April 16, 2022
Alla Ilyinichna Sinelnikova (left), 90, and Sonya Leibovna Tartakovskaya, 83, were recently evacuated from Ukraine to Germany. Both are survivors of the Holocaust, and this is the second time they are fleeing war
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