Amnon Weinstein, an Israeli luthier who restored violins belonging to Jews during the Holocaust so that musicians around the world could play them in hopeful, melodic tributes to those silenced in Nazi death camps, died on March 4 in Tel Aviv. He was 84. His death, at a hospital, was
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David Adelman, billionaire 76ers co-owner, recalls Holocaust memorial vandalism: 'I was f—ing pissed'
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With a New Holocaust Museum, the Netherlands Faces Its Past
Three faces stare blankly from sepia-toned passport photos, haphazardly pasted onto a card to an unknown recipient. They are probably two parents and their son, but we’ll never know for sure. Under their pictures are the handwritten words: “Don’t forget us!” It’s unclear when this card was sent. But its
Lawrence Langer, Unblinking Scholar of Holocaust Literature, Dies at 94
Lawrence L. Langer, a literary scholar whose unblinking assessment of the Holocaust as an event so vast and evil that it defies moral framing helped deepen scholarly and popular understanding of the atrocity, died on Monday at his home in Wellesley, Mass. He was 94. His son, Andrew Langowitz, said
A Holocaust survivor identifies with the pain of both sides in the Israel-Hamas war
As a girl of 10, Estelle Laughlin and her family were forced into the Warsaw Ghetto, then sent to a concentration camp. She lived through the Nazi genocide. This new war has shaken her to her core. (Image credit: Jamie Kelter Davis for NPR) Source link
International Holocaust Remembrance Day rings differently this year
Elinor Ben David (left) hugs her daughter Liel Abissidan, 8, as they wait for a rally in support of Israel to start, at the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach on Oct. 10, 2023, in Miami Beach, Fla. Wilfredo Lee/AP hide caption toggle caption Wilfredo Lee/AP Elinor Ben David (left) hugs her
One Hope From Changes at This Holocaust Museum: Fewer Nazi Selfies
Students on school trips to a Holocaust museum outside Detroit would stand riveted at one stark display: a Nazi officer’s black uniform with a red swastika armband, guns and a whip. Some couldn’t resist snapping selfies. Now, however, the exhibit, at the Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills, Mich., has
76ers part owner David Adelman offering reward to catch vandal who drew swastika on Holocaust memorial
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‘Occupied City’ Review: Mapping the Holocaust, Street by Street
Early in Steve McQueen’s extraordinary documentary “Occupied City,” the film cuts to the interior of the elegant main hall in Amsterdam’s grand Royal Concertgebouw. In World War II, the Nazi-German occupiers held events in the hall, but at some point in 1942 the names of the Jewish composers adorning it
An Effort to Focus on Long Overlooked Roma Suffering in the Holocaust
“The Roma voice is very much missing from the mainstream historical narrative,” Kocze said. “Their testimony has been denied, or deflated, and their credibility is questioned. These people aren’t counted, they don’t matter, no one cares about them, even to merely remember them as humans.” That was the reason that