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The Holocaust Survivor Who Hated Anne Frank
The last Holocaust survivor died last week. Well, Trudy (not her real name) wasn’t literally the last survivor – though that day is not far off. But she was my last Holocaust survivor, the last one I knew as a genuine friend, not as a congregant, or a colleague, or a symbol. She was a […]
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YAFFE ELIACH, HOLOCAUST SCHOLAR, REMEMBERED
We sat together, both students of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) in the early 1970s. Even then, Yaffe Eliach, distinguished scholar in Holocaust studies and creator of the Tower of Faces, an exhibit of photographs on permanent display at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, […]
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This Day in Jewish History 1945: The Nazis Murder a Former Mayor of Berlin
Jewish only in origin, Fritz Elsas had been a good German, but was arrested after the attempt to kill Hitler and died in a concentration camp. On January 4, 1945, Fritz Elsas, a former mayor of Berlin and part of a resistance group planning for a post-Nazi Germany, was executed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. […]
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School Parade in Taiwan Featuring Swastikas and Nazis Unleashes Uproar
TAIPEI, Taiwan — A high school parade in Taiwan in which students dressed as Nazi soldiers and carried swastika banners has created a storm of criticism in one of Asia’s most open societies. Hsinchu Kuang-Fu High School in Hsinchu City held the parade, which focused on Adolf Hitler, as part of the school’s anniversary celebrations […]
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Calling from the darkness: Music written by Holocaust victims recorded in new album
From behind barbed wire and prison walls, as they watched friends and family members be sent to their deaths and wondered if they would ever be free, the inmates of Theresienstadt concentration camp composed music. Also know as Terezin, the Holocaust prison camp was situated northwest of Prague in what is now the Czech Republic. […]
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Why Didn’t the Swedes Mobilize to Save Holocaust Hero Raoul Wallenberg?
The very belated confirmation of the death of the Swedish diplomat raises new questions about economic and political interests – of the Swedish government and of his family – that may explain why the affair was not settled 70 years ago. A few weeks ago, the death was announced in Sweden of a person who […]
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Neo-Nazi Calls for Armed White Supremacists to March Against Montana Jews
The man who runs the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer has announced an armed march by white supremacists in an effort to harass a Montana Jewish community. The graphic announcing the march in Whitefish, Montana, that went online Thursday was published over a photograph of the entrance to Auschwitz and includes a yellow Star of […]
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Remembering Holocaust Hero Marion Pritchard
TRANSCRIPT AILSA CHANG, HOST: We take time now to remember Marion van Binsbergen Pritchard who died this month at the age of 96. During the second world war in her native Holland, she helped more than 150 Jews evade the Nazis. Her son Ivor Pritchard told us how she became a rescuer. IVOR PRITCHARD: […]
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The road from perdition: former neo-Nazis find a way out
After years of believing conspiracy theories that explained the perceived injustice they saw around them, as well as their own loneliness, past neo-Nazis are finding the support they need to change their lives and leave their hatred in the past. Felix Benneckenstein was a rising star on Germany’s far-right scene, a young songwriter whose rousing […]
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Holocaust Survivors Score Victory in Reclaiming Stolen Art
A group of Holocaust survivors and their families notched a crucial victory on Friday, as Congress approved legislation that would make it easier to reclaim art confiscated during World War II. The unanimous vote — which came during a late-night session as the Senate worked to pass a spending bill to avert a government shutdown […]
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