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The virtual Holocaust survivor: how history gained new dimensions
Pinchas Gutter goes out of his way to find me biscuits. In a sun-baked living room in his north London home, he opens a packet of Rich Tea, sits down and tells me about the Holocaust. Gutter was seven years old when the second world war broke out. He lived in the Warsaw ghetto for […]
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Holocaust survivors can genetically pass trauma down to their children
Holocaust survivors can genetically pass trauma down to their children A few weeks ago I was sitting in my therapist’s office and talking about struggles I have with my father and some of his behavior. I told her that both of my dad’s parents were holocaust survivors. He grew up as an only child with […]
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Alumni reflection: Liz Pearl, Canada, 2014
Nothing Makes Sense ‒‛Never Again’ Excerpts from My Journal from MOL 2014 Liz Pearl Water: Rain and Tears The day after we arrive in Poland is Shabbat and we take a guided walking tour through the streets of Warsaw in the rain. At some point the rain changes from a light drizzle to a […]
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Alumni Reflection: Anita Bloom, 2016
One of the most memorable instances that will be seared into my memory was a time when there were no speeches, no songs, just silence. It was the day we walked through a beautiful forest, tall trees with glowing sunshine. The day was warm and nature was at its best. But our path through this […]
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Alumni Reflection: Felicia Schneberg, 2016
The holocaust, with all it’s death and destruction, has been a part of my life since my dad, a survivor, told me stories of his experiences when I was growing up. Then in 1986, when he was dying of non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, and I was pregnant with his first grandchild, he was able to record his […]
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Holocaust Survivor Tells Heartwrenching Story of the Day He Was Freed
A Holocaust survivor recalled the day he was freed from a concentration camp for BuzzFeed — and his story is chilling. The man, who isn’t named in the video, was a prisoner at the camp for a year before it was liberated. He and his friends didn’t get much sleep and he hadn’t washed himself […]
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Lohmann: His mother’s sweater was ‘our lifeline’ during WWII
Holocaust survivor Jay Ipson celebrated his 81st birthday by showing off a gift he’s wanted for a long time: his mother’s sweater. Or, in actuality, a very close reproduction. “It was our lifeline,” Ipson said of the sweater. And he wants others to see the sweater and know the story. The original sweater is long […]
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San Diego H.S. seniors share reactions to March of Living
SAN DIEGO — Two San Diego teens who participated in the March of the Living earlier this year–in which a visit to the German Nazi concentration camps in Poland is followed by a trip to Israel — reflected on the first of these experiences in these articles below. Questions about the March of the Living […]
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Holocaust Survivor Finds Peace in Art
Eva Nathanson doesn’t feel the same guilt her parents did for having been spared an anonymous death at the hands of Nazis, when so many others perished. Instead, she feels a compulsion to never spend a moment wasting time and to treat every minute of life as the miracle it is. Sitting in her kitchen, […]
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Auschwitz guard jailed for five years in Holocaust murder trial
A 94-year-old former Auschwitz death camp guard has been convicted of being an accessory to the murder of 170,000 people at the end of a four-month trial – which is likely to be the last of its kind. Reinhold Hanning was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison for his role in facilitating the […]
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