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Remembrance Wall connects B’nai Mitzvah kids to Holocaust, Israel
Jewish Journal – Myrtle G. Sitowitz always has had a special place in her heart for Israel. She moved from England to the Holy Land in the 1960s, performed in the theater in Tel Aviv and met her Bronx-born husband there before immigrating with him to Los Angeles. When it was time for the bar […]
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Alumni Reflections: Valerie Greenfeld, USA, 2017
A SUITCASE OF PERSPECTIVE By Valerie Greenfeld April 29, 2017 To remember the heroes who resisted the Nazis and to mourn for those who were lost, I flew to Poland to walk with thousands of people from around the world from Auschwitz to Birkenau. Since 1988, when communism fell, thousands have gathered on Yom HaShoah, […]
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Three Italian Brothers Try to Find the Cave They Lived in During the Holocaust
JTA — Renting a house in the Italian countryside and eating loads of pasta is about as blissful a vacation as they come. For the three Anati brothers, however, such a trip is a reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust. Yet the brothers — Bubi, 77; Andrea, 85; and Emmanuel, 88 — did just […]
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Auschwitz Artifacts to Go on Tour, Very Carefully
WARSAW — More than 72 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the first traveling exhibition about the Nazi death camp will begin a journey later this year to 14 cities across Europe and North America, bringing heartbreaking artifacts to multitudes who have never seen such horror up close. The endeavor is one of the most […]
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She Keeps Memory Of The Holocaust Alive — One Tchotchke At A Time
The Forward – For the past 26 years, Susan Goldstein Snyder, a curator at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, has traveled across the U.S. and Europe meeting with survivors (and, increasingly, their children and grandchildren), listening to their stories, and persuading them to donate their artifacts to the museum. Over the course of her […]
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Anti-Semitic Crime At Highest Recorded Level In British History, Study Finds
Forward – (JTA) — Anti-Semitic crime has risen to its highest level in the United Kingdom, according to a new audit released by the Campaign Against Antisemitism. According to the National Antisemitic Crime Audit released on Sunday, anti-Semitic crime in 2016 rose 44 percent from 2014. The audit for 2016 registered a total of 1,078 anti-Semitic […]
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Holocaust Survivor Has Her Story Preserved, Thanks to LA Students
Los Angeles Daily News – World War II. Eva Trenk was a young girl growing up in Czechoslovakia. Adolf Hitler already had invaded neighboring Poland and the situation in Trenk’s country was deteriorating when she and her family were forced from their home. “We had to pack some suitcases, and the buses took us to a […]
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Alumni Reflections: Juli Grimberg, Martin Buber Argentina, 2014
What is the name of the March of the Living Delegation / Group that you traveled with? Martin Buber Argentina Year(s) attended: 2014 What was the most memorable moment of your experience? Cantar el Hatikva en frente de la camara de gas. Translation: Singing the Hatikva in front of the gas chambers. What impact did Poland […]
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How These Teachers Learned To Teach The Holocaust
Forward (JTA) — When Megan Corbin was in school, she learned about the Holocaust as an optimistic story. Her grade school, she said, “highlighted Anne Frank as the voice of hope, and that really wasn’t the reality.” Now, as an eighth-grade language arts teacher outside of Seattle, she teaches about victims, perpetrators and civilians who were […]
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Alumni Reflections: Yani Grinberg, Hebraica Argentina, 2011
What is the name of the March of the Living Delegation / Group that you traveled with? Hebraica Argentina Year(s) attended: 2011 What was the most memorable moment of your experience? Uno de los momentos más fuertes del viaje para mí fue llegar a las calles que comprendían el Gueto de Varsovia; tocar sus muros, […]
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