admin | July 19, 2024
(July 17, 2024 / JNS) With her German accent, wit and warmth, therapist Ruth Westheimerknown affectionately as Dr. Ruthhelped romantic couples better understand their intimate relationships for more than 40 years. She died in Manhattan on Friday at about 11:30 p.m., aged 96, with her two children at her side, her publicist said
admin | July 19, 2024
(JNS) Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, earlier this week inaugurated a new home for the worlds largest collection of Shoah-related materials. Donors, dignitaries, Yad Vashem staff and survivors gathered to mark the opening of the Moshal Shoah Legacy Campus, which includes the David and Fela Shapell Family Collections Center.
admin | July 19, 2024
As we celebrate our 30th anniversary, we pay tribute to some of the people who helped build the organization. Ita Gordon has worked as an indexer, translator, mentor, and researcher at the USC Shoah Foundation since its founding 30 years ago, channeling her passion for the organizations mission into diligent care and helping to establish the USC Shoah Foundation as a world leader in collecting, preserving, and sharing survivor testimony.
admin | July 19, 2024
Yellow badges and a piece of luggage are displayed during the inauguration of The Moshal Shoah Legacy Campus and The David and Fela Shapell Family Collections Center, at Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, July 8. AP-Yonhap Britain's new Labour government said on Wednesday it would build a Holocaust memorial and learning centre next to the Houses of Parliament in London, committing to a longstanding pledge dogged by controversy.
admin | July 6, 2024
A newly built repository is to serve as home for the worlds largest collections of Holocaust artifacts, documents, artwork, and photographs.
admin | July 6, 2024
Mon, 02/02/2015 - 5:00pm Students at CSS South Quadrant in England observed Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27 with a unique IWitness installation led by teacher Tony Cole.
admin | June 15, 2024
The Forbidden Daughter is a fictionalised Holocaust biography that isnt really about the Holocaust. Instead, its about the legacy of tragedy; the way trauma passes down the generations and the fact that peace does not really mark the end of the fight.
admin | June 15, 2024
In a five-hour interview with the USC Shoah Foundation, Justus Rosenberg refers to himself as a small fry, a cog, an unimportant person. And perhaps it was for this reason that for decades, the Bard College literature professor hadnt let onto his colleagues, to his students, and even, for a time, to his wifethat he had fought and outwitted the Nazis during World War II to save thousands from persecution. Between the years of 1939 and 1947, with Forrest Gump-ian omnipresence, Rosenberg was a courier and guide for Varian Frys Emergency Rescue Committee in Marseilles, a spy and a guerilla soldier for the French underground, a scout for the U.S.
admin | May 30, 2024
In a poignant display of reconciliation and remembrance, German Defense Intelligence Liaison Officers, Lt. Colonel Bocklet and Colonel Busch, alongside their spouses, were warmly welcomed as special guests to the weekly meeting of Holocaust Survivors at Jewish Family & Childrens Services of Southern Arizona (JFCS). Holocaust Survivor, Wanda Wolowsky, of blessed memory, was instrumental in forging connections with German liaison officers before her passing
admin | May 30, 2024
On January 23, 2002, Ruth Pearl dreamt that her son, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, was scared and in trouble. In her dream, she told him she would bring him tea and take care of him. She woke up in a panic and sent an email to Daniel, who was on assignment in Karachi, Pakistan.
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