• Alumni Reflection: Anita Bloom, 2016

    One of the most memorable instances that will be seared into my memory was a time when there were no speeches, no songs, just silence. It was the day we walked through a beautiful forest, tall trees with glowing sunshine. The day was warm and nature was at its best. But our path through this […]

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  • Alumni Reflection: Felicia Schneberg, 2016

    The holocaust, with all it’s death and destruction, has been a part of my life since my dad, a survivor, told me stories of his experiences when I was growing up. Then in 1986, when he was dying of non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, and I was pregnant with his first grandchild, he was able to record his […]

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  • Holocaust Survivor Tells Heartwrenching Story of the Day He Was Freed

    A Holocaust survivor recalled the day he was freed from a concentration camp for BuzzFeed — and his story is chilling. The man, who isn’t named in the video, was a prisoner at the camp for a year before it was liberated. He and his friends didn’t get much sleep and he hadn’t washed himself […]

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  • Lohmann: His mother’s sweater was ‘our lifeline’ during WWII

    Holocaust survivor Jay Ipson celebrated his 81st birthday by showing off a gift he’s wanted for a long time: his mother’s sweater. Or, in actuality, a very close reproduction. “It was our lifeline,” Ipson said of the sweater. And he wants others to see the sweater and know the story. The original sweater is long […]

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  • San Diego H.S. seniors share reactions to March of Living

    SAN DIEGO — Two San Diego teens who participated in the March of the Living earlier this year–in which a visit to the German Nazi concentration camps in Poland is followed by a trip to Israel — reflected on the first of these experiences in these articles below. Questions about the March of the Living […]

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  • Holocaust Survivor Finds Peace in Art

    Eva Nathanson doesn’t feel the same guilt her parents did for having been spared an anonymous death at the hands of Nazis, when so many others perished. Instead, she feels a compulsion to never spend a moment wasting time and to treat every minute of life as the miracle it is. Sitting in her kitchen, […]

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  • Auschwitz guard jailed for five years in Holocaust murder trial

    A 94-year-old former Auschwitz death camp guard has been convicted of being an accessory to the murder of 170,000 people at the end of a four-month trial – which is likely to be the last of its kind. Reinhold Hanning was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison for his role in facilitating the […]

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  • Michigan requires public schools to teach about Holocaust

    The Holocaust during World War II and the 1915 to 1920 massacre of Armenians must be taught in Michigan public schools under a law signed by Governor Rick Snyder on Tuesday. The new law recommends a combined six hours of genocide lessons be taught at some point between grades 8-12, and requires Snyder to make […]

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  • Comparing Israel to Nazis Is anti-Semitic, Says International Body

    An intergovernmental body devoted to commemorating the Holocaust adopted a definition of anti-Semitism that includes some hate speech against Israel. The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, or IHRA, adopted the definition on May 26, according to a statement posted earlier this week on its website. The organization was launched in 1998 and has 31member states, all of them Western […]

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  • U.S. Holocaust Museum gets a treasured Auschwitz manuscript by Primo Levi

    Manuela Paul had the precious documents in a plastic folder, inside an artist’s satchel, inside a Whole Foods shopping bag, which she kept at her side the entire bus ride from New York to Washington. The package in her custody was a rare 1946 draft of one of the most revered books to come out […]

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