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Holocaust film reveals the pain of bringing autobiography to screen
Every family has secrets, but some cry out to be revealed to the world. That’s what San Francisco cinematographer Eli Adler learned when — well into middle age — he began exploring his father’s Holocaust past. As a child growing up in Skokie, Adler knew little about what his father had suffered and lost in […]
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Pope Francis Schedules Auschwitz Visit for July
The pope will visit the former Nazi death camp as part of a five-day trip to Poland to mark the Catholic Church’s World Youth Day. Pope Francis will visit Auschwitz during a trip to Poland in late July. According to a schedule released over the weekend, the pontiff will visit the former Nazi death camp […]
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POEM: Dancing in Auschwitz by Eva Schottenstein, 2016
We are revenge, incarnate Destined to walk, to listen, to remember, to pass on We are revenge incarnate We march, hands intertwined with those of strangers along with brothers Fingers braided tight as bread, seamlessly converting visitors into natives Heads held high, along with fists, along with flags Chanting, stamping, singing, stomping Shoulders sagging under […]
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Assemblyman Cymbrowitz Announces Holocaust Memorial Creative Arts Contest
Last week, Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz (D-Brooklyn) invited students in grades three through 12 to participate in his 2016 Holocaust Memorial Creative Arts Contest. According to a press release, the annual contest provides students with an opportunity to “reflect on the Holocaust, examine how its lessons continue to impact our lives, and express their feelings using […]
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‘I don’t know the secret’: Holocaust survivor named ‘world’s oldest living man’
A 112-year-old Polish man who survived two World Wars and the Auschwitz concentration camp has been confirmed as the world’s oldest living man. Born in Poland on September 15th, 1903, 112-year-old Israel Kristal was on the brink of death when he was rescued in May of 1945 at the age of 41, weighing just 81 […]
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Museum Honors Poles Who Saved Jews During The Holocaust
Seventy-two years ago, the Holocaust banged on the door of the Ulma family, knocked it down, dragged them all away and ended the lives of 16 people. Eight Polish Jews and eight ethnic Poles died in March 1944 – members of the Diner, Grunfeld and Goldman families, along with Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma, their six […]
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SET Architects installs towering steel Holocaust memorial in a Bologna square
The space at the heart of this rusting steel memorial narrows to a width of just 80 centimetres, designed to make visitors empathise with the “feeling of oppression” experienced by Holocaust victims (+ slideshow). Designed by Rome-based office SET Architects, the Bologna Shoah Memorial is located on a city square in Bologna, Italy, close to the newly installed high-speed train station. […]
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A symbol for an entire generation of heroes
President Rivlin says goodbye to the last survivor from Treblinka, Samuel Willenberg; ‘The story of his life is the eternal story of the Jewish people,’ the president eulogizes. I stand here today awestruck. Before your freshly dug grave, Samuel. Before your courage and spirit. In the face of such heroism, and Jewish courage. I stand […]
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Cyprus unveils holocaust monument (PICTURES)
Cyprus and Israel’s defence ministers unveiled a monument on Wednesday, honouring children of Holocaust survivors whose passage to Israel went through the island more than half a century ago. Israeli minister Moshe Ya’alon arrived in the morning in what was a historic first official visit by an Israeli Minister of Defence to the Cyprus, as […]
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Oving Architecten shrouds concentration camp house in glass as a memorial to the holocaust
The former home of an SS commander at Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, the Netherlands, has been enclosed within a giant glass vitrine by Dutch studio Oving Architecten. Intended as a memorial to the second world war, the large glass box creates a vitrine-like enclosure around the clapboard residence of SS commander Albert Konrad Gemmeker. According to […]
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