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Polish security firm offers to send 100 guards to help protect Israel
BY JTA The owner of a large Polish security firm offered to send 100 guards to Israel to help protect civilians against terrorist attacks. Benjamin Krasicki, president of the board of the Warsaw-based City Security, made the offer in a letter he sent Wednesday to Israel’s minister of interior security, Gilad Erdan. “We would be […]
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A New Look at Japan’s Wartime Atrocities and a U.S. Cover-Up
New York Times By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW Joy Chen is sitting on a bench outside a new museum about the medical atrocities committed by Japan’s Unit 731 in Manchuria during World War II, trying to absorb what she learned inside: After the war, the United States covered up Japan’s biological warfare research on humans, allowing […]
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MVFF38: Marin filmmakers tell personal story of the Holocaust in ‘Surviving Skokie’
Marin Independent Journal, By Vicki Larson The dedication of a Holocaust museum in Illinois may be an unlikely inspiration for a documentary. But for Eli Adler of San Anselmo, a long-time award-wining cinematographer, it was the impetus to tell a story he didn’t even know he wanted to tell. The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education […]
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Holocaust survivor shares story of Auschwitz concentration camp, liberation
The Miami Hurricane, By Isabella Rosa Cendan Students in Professor Markus Zisselsberger’s First-Year Seminar in Literature were able to relive history on Tuesday, when a Holocaust survivor spoke with them about his experience during the Nazi regime. David Mermelstein, 86, was born in Kivjazd, Czechoslovakia in 1928. When he was 15, he became a victim of […]
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Australia’s Jews Fume After PM Says ISIS Worse Than Nazis
By: The Associated Press Australia’s prime minister angered some Jewish leaders on Thursday by suggesting that the Islamic State movement was worse than Nazis during World War II. It is the third time this year that gaffe-prone Prime Minister Tony Abbott has riled Jewish Australians with Nazi analogies. Abbott used an interview with Sydney Radio […]
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Art Therapy and the Creative Process of Healing: Workshops with Dr. Tsaphie Zohar-Stendel
The Weiss-Livnat International MA Program in Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa Blog by Guest Lecturers In the aftermath of the Holocaust, survivors and their descendants were faced with the challenge of coping with their past, and creating a new present and future. The coping methods and process of moving forward was different for each […]
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Poland’s mixed feelings over memorial to rescuers
By: Vanessa Gera WARSAW, Poland (AP) — As a Catholic Pole, Elka shouldn’t even have been in the ghetto of Czestochowa, in southern Poland. But the nanny was so devoted to the 12-year-old Jewish boy she had raised since infancy that she refused to […]
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The more I learned, the less I understood by Tricia Schwitzer, 2015
I am standing in the WIZO cafeteria, in a queue at the soup tureen. The lady in front of me ladles rich vegetable broth into her bowl and I do not need to pray that there will be sufficient vegetables left in the soup to sustain me. No, I don’t need to think about that […]
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Satirical Slap in the Face
By: The Israel Opinion Op-ed: New German film ‘Look Who’s Back,’ which satirizes Hitler, should not have been made for same reasons Charlie Chaplin regretted making ‘The Great Dictator.’ In October, “Look Who’s Back”, a satire based on the bestselling novel by Timur Vermes, which describes Adolph Hitler’s return after decades of deep sleep, will […]
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Today, I Picked up the Pencil by Shelby Curran
by Shelby Curran I don’t know why it took me so long to get it. It’s been two months and six days since I left Poland with my county’s March of the Living delegation. The trip journeys through a week in Poland, touring the concentration and death camps where Nazi Germany persecution took place, followed […]
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