Polish Historians Publish Detailed List of Auschwitz Nazi Guards

Haaretz – Polish historians put online what they describe as the most complete list of Nazi SS commanders and guards at the former German death camp of Auschwitz. The Institute of National Remembrance said Monday that the SS KL Auschwitz Garrison list is based on data from archives in Poland,

Alumni Reflection: Noelle Chin-Vance, Leo Martin, 2016

I don’t usually post anything on Facebook, besides happy pictures of my experience as a college student, however, today is different. As I was walking by Turlington I was a witness of a group of people shouting “No more Nazis!”. I knew about there being a man who walked around

REMEMBERING THE HOLOCAUST THROUGH THE EYES OF HAREDI VICTIMS

JPost – Brooklyn’s haredi (ultra-Orthodox) community is set to get a unique Holocaust museum this year that will focus on a theme particularly relevant to them – perspectives of observant Jewish communities during WWII. American businessman and philanthropist Elly Kleinman is the brains behind the new Amud Aish Memorial Museum,

Steven Spielberg’s Jewish Roots

Aish – The newly released biography, Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films by Molly Haskell, delves into the Jewish life of the iconic director and the impact of his childhood on his countless award-winning films. Years ago, right before the release of Schindler’s List, Spielberg spoke openly about his Jewish roots and

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

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

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

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

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

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