admin | August 1, 2021
His books are saturated with despair. Over and over again, his emotionally traumatised characters are caught inescapably in plots that doom them to a life of anguish
admin | July 23, 2021
Hey, I did have one question That was the tentative opening to an email I recently received from a high school teacher. The Ninth Candle, the Holocaust education organization I founded, had led some educational programs for her students, and the teacher and I had been trading emails for a few weeks since
admin | July 23, 2021
This is the final part of a three-part series about how the Holocaust has been depicted in cinema.
admin | July 23, 2021
This is the second part of a three-part series about how the Holocaust has been depicted in cinema. You can read part one, about witness narratives, here. In his memoir The Patagonian Hare, Claude Lanzmann contrasts the endings of Schindlers List (1993) and his own film, Shoah (1985)
admin | July 23, 2021
In 1945, not long after Germanys surrender, filmmaker George Stevens, best-known at that time for directing romantic comedies, entered Dachau. The images he and his crew captured of the concentration camps liberation would become some of the first the world would see of the Nazi death machine
admin | July 23, 2021
SKOKIE, Ill. (AP) A new exhibit at the Illinois Holocaust Museum recounts the little-known role that Shanghai, China played as a safe haven for Jews who fled Europe to escape Nazi persecution. American photojournalist Arthur Rothstein began documenting the lives of Jewish refugees in Shanghais Hongkew District in 1946
admin | July 3, 2021
Tenafly works to include Holocaust history into the schools Tenafly works to include Holocaust history into the schools following student writing an essay from the perspective of Adolf Hitler. Tariq Zehawi, NorthJersey.com Onthe heels of a controversy that left the community reeling, a global human rights organization is partnering with Tenafly to promote Holocaust awareness and turn it into a "teachable moment." "Rather than arguingover what should and shouldnot have been said, we're using this situation as an opportunityto learn,"said Tenafly Mayor Mark Zinna at a Friday morning newsconference at which the initiative was announced.
admin | July 3, 2021
That changed when a man wielding a baseball bat came after him in front of his synagogue in Graz, Austria. The building had been repeatedly vandalized and while Rosen managed to reach his car and escape unharmed physically, he was shaken to his core. "After the attack, those warnings of my grandparents had kind of a flashback," he told CNN
admin | July 3, 2021
MOHNTON, Pa. Dozens of people turned out at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Holocaust education center at the Berks Military History Museum.
admin | July 3, 2021
NORTH ADAMS Jordana Lebowitz carefully stretched a tape measure along the length of an enamelware pitcher produced by Oskar Schindlers factory during World War II, calling out measurements to her team as they discussed and indexed items from Darrell K.T. Englishs extensive collection of Holocaust-related artifacts. The pitcher, along with one of Schindlers datebooks, an oilcloth Kennkarte with a stamp of a large yellow J and a Nazi childrens book, was among 200 artifacts a small part of English's collection cataloged over five days last week at the North Adams Museum of History and Science, which hosted English and Lebowitz's group
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