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El Paso Holocaust Museum youth education program
Children only above sixth grade should attend the El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center because they will understand the Holocaust better than youngsters, the Holocaust education director said.“The gallery here is geared toward sixth graders and above,” Education Director Jamie Flores said. “So below that, we believe the maturity level of a young child […]
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Doing justice to her father’s dream
She was born in a refugee camp in Stuttgart, just over two hours from Nuremberg, where Nazi war criminals were being brought to justice. And now, 70 years later, Justice Rosalie Abella of the Supreme Court of Canada has come back to the place where her father began his own legal career – Jagiellonian University […]
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Nazi Germany’s Jewish champion: the mystery of Helene Mayer endures
The photograph is at once both beautiful and revolting. Snapped in the fading sun of an August afternoon during the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, this picture is of a German woman standing regal on the medal stand, dressed in white, her posture perfect, her face locked in the stoic gaze of determination. Her arm is […]
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San Diego Participants Reflect on this Year’s March of the Living
In honor of this year’s Yom Hashoah, another group of young San Diegans joined counterparts from across the world on the March of the Living. The San Diego Jewish Journal online published reflections from two local participants. This trip is historically moving, and gives young people a chance to really understand what we mean when we […]
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‘Taste of Hope’ focuses on food during the Holocaust
When prisoners in Nazi concentration camps cooked traditional meals together, it restored the hope that one day their lives could return to normal. Now, one Sacramento playwright has dramatized that idea, and is inviting audiences to dine with her. Sarah Acrich’s “Taste of Hope: A Play in Three Courses” was inspired by stories from family […]
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Donors give $11,000 so Holocaust Survivor Band can take music to Auschwitz
Saul Dreier and Ruby Sosnowicz are Holocaust survivors. They came together to start the Holocaust Survivor Band. They are returning to the birthplace of their most haunting memories — and dozens of sympathetic strangers are helping pay their way. Two musically inclined Holocaust survivors are heading to Poland on July 21 to play their favorite […]
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Canadian PM visits Auschwitz with Holocaust survivor
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday toured the German built Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp following the conclusion of a two-day NATO summit held in Warsaw, Poland. Trudeau was accompanied by Holocaust survivor and Toronto resident Nate Leipciger. Leipciger, who was born in Poland in 1928, immigrated to Toronto with his father after their liberation from […]
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The March of the Living Exhibit in Oswiecim
The March of the Living Exhibit is deeply honored that our special exhibit has been moved to a new location in front of the Library in the center of the city of Oswiecim. During the previous 9 months, the exhibit was placed at the entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, enabling hundreds of thousands of individuals from all over […]
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How A Mass. Woman Learned Her Family’s Full Holocaust Story
When Severin Fayerman died last year, his daughter Kris Fayerman-Piatt, a Milton native, thought she knew all there was to know about her father’s Holocaust story. But it turned out she knew only a part of it. The pain of the Holocaust apparently caused her father to keep his true identity buried deep inside until […]
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How Many Neighbors Were Complicit in the Holocaust?
Facing deportation to Auschwitz, 13-year-old Steven Fenves watched as neighbors in Hungarian-occupied Yugoslavia lined the stairs, “waiting to ransack whatever we left behind, cursing at us, yelling at us, spitting at us as we left.” Choking up, he also recalled in an oral history that the family’s cook rushed into the apartment to salvage artwork […]
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