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Telling the Holocaust story of a grandmother who refused to speak
Haaretz – In recounting the harrowing experiences of his grandmother during the Holocaust for an ambitious new book project, Israeli author Yuval Yareach faced a daunting challenge: He had hardly ever spoken to her about it. By the time he set out on his mission to turn Manja Wolfgang’s life story into a work of […]
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Lilly Weds Ludwig in a White Dress After All
Haaretz – On January 27, 1946, Ludwig Friedman and Lilly Lax were married. They celebrated their nuptials in Celle, a small city in Germany whose distinctions were that it had a synagogue that had survived the depredations of Nazism and the destruction of World War II, and that it was close to Bergen-Belsen displaced persons […]
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Alumni Reflection: Natasha Woodstock “You can’t not go”, UJS UK, 2016
UJS – When you go somewhere people always ask how was it? And words can never express the intensity of what you’ve experienced. This is a trip too important to miss and my words can only carry so far. I have been on a Poland trip three times, two of which were with March of the […]
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Spotlight on Holocaust Survivor Max Eisen
Macleans – Max Eisen was barely 15 when the gendarmes came for him and his family in March 1944. He had been born into a large and prosperous Jewish family in 1929, in what was then Czechoslovakia, but in the dismemberment of that country in early 1939, their part had fallen to Nazi Germany’s ally Hungary. […]
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Paul Ornstein, Psychoanalyst and Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 92
New York Times – Having barely survived the Holocaust, Paul and Anna Ornstein might have been among the least likely converts to an evolving psychoanalytical movement that views the world more positively than traditional Freudian analysis does. Yet the couple, who met as teenagers in Hungary, transcended their own trauma. They were miraculously reunited after World War […]
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Alumni Reflection: Alejandra Rotman, Argentina, 2016
(Scroll down for English version…) Aún con el equipaje a medio desarmar, la casa revuelta y mi corazón otro tanto, me veo en la situación de satisfacer el oído del otro ante el reiterado pedido de relatar mi viaje. En estos días me encuentro con palabras escasas pero con múltiples sensaciones. No porque no pueda […]
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Silent children of the Holocaust making their voices heard
The Holocaust is often told as the story of loss, quantified by concrete numbers, specific dates, sites of persecution and searing images that scorch our collective psyche. But to a group of survivors known as the “hidden children,” the Holocaust is far more diffuse and elusive. It lurks in the shadows of the subconscious: the […]
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Researchers uncover vast numbers of unknown Nazi killing fields
In 2000, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, tasked researchers with creating a comprehensive, single-source record that would accurately document the thousands of persecution sites the Nazis had established. The USHMM estimated that the team would uncover about 5,000 persecution sites, which would include forced labor camps, military brothels, ghettos, POW camps, […]
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Rome road race to commemorate the Holocaust
A road race passing sites of Holocaust and Jewish remembrance in Rome will highlight events in Italy marking International Holocaust Memorial Day. The “Run for Mem” — short for Run for Remembrance: Looking Ahead — is scheduled for Jan. 22, five days before the observance of International Holocaust Memorial Day marking the anniversary of the 1945 […]
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Reflections on International Holocaust Remembrance Day by Rabbi Fred Guttman
January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This day was chosen because it is the anniversary of the liberation of the horrendous and unparalleled death camp Auschwitz in 1945. At Auschwitz, some 1,200,000 people were murdered. Most of them were Jews, including some 430,000 Hungarian Jews who were deported in the last year of its […]
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