admin | May 12, 2021
By: KDKA-TV News Staff PITTSBURGH (KDKA) Pittsburgh Steelers Offensive Tackle Zach Banner once again got involved to support the local community.
admin | March 9, 2021
Can one write a humorous book that grapples with the Holocaust?
admin | March 7, 2021
THE scale of the death and destruction must never, ever be forgotten, an emotional Josh Frydenberg said this week as he announced that the Morrison government is providing $2 million towards the establishment of a Tasmanian Holocaust Education and Interpretation Centre. Speaking on Tuesday at Hobart Synagogue, Australias oldest shule, Frydenberg noted, If there was a minutes silence observed for every Jewish life that was lost in the Holocaust it would go for 11 years. The Treasurer said the new centre which will allow Tasmanian students, teachers and the wider community to better understand the Shoah and its impact on our world will also serve as a warning that such atrocities can still take place
admin | March 7, 2021
Every so often, its useful to recall the immortal words of novelist William Faulkner: The past is never dead.
admin | March 7, 2021
Sandra Scheller had poured so much of herself, her parents and her Jewish community into the Holocaust remembrance exhibit shed been working on for 2020 that when the COVID-19 pandemic put it on hold, she was devastated.
admin | March 7, 2021
IN just the past few days, a skate park in Sydney has been defaced with a giant swastika and a Nazi flag has been found on sale in the Victorian town of Bendigo.
admin | March 3, 2021
Steven Spielbergs USC Shoah Foundation has linked up with secondary schools in the UK to help children tackle hatred and build empathy through storytelling. The California-based foundation, which has been world-leading in its use of technology in Holocaust education, is taking part in the Stronger than Hate challenge, together with digital curriculum provider Discovery Education. Students aged 13-18 are asked to submit a project showing why united communities are stronger.
admin | March 3, 2021
The Hungarian-Jewish filmmaker Janos Szasz is best known in the United States for his 2013 film The Notebook (Le Grand Cahier), released here in the summer of 2014. Its based on the international bestseller of the same name, written in French by the Hungarian-born novelist gota Kristf. The Notebook is an almost fairy-tale parable of Holocaust resistance and resilience, focusing on two twins who live out the war with their witch-like grandmother in rural Hungary, learning not to feel in order to survive
admin | March 3, 2021
01/03/2021 - BERLINALE 2021: Christophe Cognet immerses himself in a meticulous investigation, analysing the very rare clandestine photographs taken by deportees themselves in the death camps In a sunny countryside landscape, the earth is dotted with white. These are bone fragments which return to the surface when it rains: they are always in the ground we walk on. Traces of the abominations that were nazi concentration camps, these places dedicated to the negation of humanity, have already been the subjects of many cinematic representations from different angles, with very different styles and approaches, from Samuel Fullers The Big Red One to Claude Lanzmanns colossal Shoah, from Alain Resnais Night and Fog to Lszl Nemes immersive Son of Saul[+see also: filmreviewtrailerQ&A: Lszl Nemesinterview: Lszl Rajkfilmprofile] a duty of memory that is all the more essential considering mans unfortunate tendency to look away from his most obscure inclinations.
admin | March 3, 2021
Hackney Conservatives are calling for the resignation of scholar-activist Toyin Agbetu from the Town Halls review into the naming of local landmarks, buildings and public spaces. Agbetu hit the headlines this week after allegations of antisemitism made by City Hall Conservative Mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey led him to resign from London Mayors Sadiq Khans new diversity commission. The allegations relate to past comments asserting an immoral hierarchy of suffering from which victims and survivors of the Holocaust benefit as compared to those of African enslavement
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