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2 Holocaust Survivors Turn to Art to Reclaim Lost Lives
The collage artist Ruth Jacobsen, 83, and the handbag designer Judith Leiber, 95, both Holocaust survivors, have relied on the creative process and a strong-willed entrepreneurial spirit to reclaim their lives and break glass ceilings for women in the United States. For decades, Ms. Jacobsen kept a family photo album unopened in her closet. A […]
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Holocaust movie profiles American bravery
BOCA RATON, Fla. —It’s a story that sounds straight from Hollywood: Two Americans fly bravely into Nazi Germany and rescue 50 Jewish children. Even the man telling the story didn’t believe it was true initially. “To be honest, I didn’t believe a word of what I was reading,” said Steven Pressman. “It sounded like a […]
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Teacher Uses Skype To Teach Students about the Holocaust
With the help of Skype, a Virginia history teacher is passing on the story of his family’s escape from the Holocaust during World War II. For 33 years, George Cassutto, a teacher at Harmony Middle School near Hamilton, VA, has been telling the personal story of how his parents, Ernest and Elizabeth Cassuto, Jews from […]
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Meir Dagan: From the shadow of the Holocaust to the top of the Mossad
When news of Meir Dagan’s death broke, Mossad chief Yossi Cohen expressed on behalf of the organization’s employees and its past chiefs deep sorrow at the news of his death and sent condolences to the Dagan family. Dagan, the tenth Mossad chief, was appointed by his close friend Ariel Sharon and served atop the organization […]
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57,000 Tripping Stones Honor Holocaust Victims Across Europe, but This One’s Personal
For us, it was the first time. For him, it was somewhere closer to his 57,000th time. Artist Gunter Demnig has dedicated his professional career to placing memorial plaques in front of thousands of European homes, from which Jews, Sinti, Jehovah’s Witnesses and other persecuted minorities were expelled. He began installing stolpersteinen, literally “stumbling” or […]
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Olga Horak, Holocaust survivor: Heart of the Nation
Clothes are important to Olga Horak. A self-taught seamstress, she was in the rag trade all her working life, running a factory and a fashion boutique in Sydney. Even now, at 89, she designs and makes her own dresses — “I’m very fussy,” she explains, “and all the beautiful clothes in shops are for young […]
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New museum honors Poles killed for helping Jews in Holocaust
Jews and Catholics offered prayers Thursday at the graves of Jews hunted by the Nazis and a Polish family killed for trying to save them, a solemn prelude to the opening of a museum honoring Poles who died for offering refuge. Polish President Andrzej Duda was to lead the formal opening of the Ulma Family […]
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Holocaust Children Share Survival Stories
Local students got a living history lesson Wednesday when two child survivors of the Holocaust visited Greeneville to share their stories. Nearly 1,100 middle and high school students from Greeneville, Greene County, Kingsport and Washington County filled the Niswonger Performing Arts Center for the East Tennessee Holocaust Conference, which featured Dr. Inge Auerbacher and Sonja […]
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Holocaust survivor still a fighter at 91
If you ask 91-year-old Holocaust survivor Albert Rosa to take a couple of jabs in the boxing ring, he would probably oblige. Rosa, who loves the sport of boxing, spent much of his life fighting, especially during World War II. “I love to box,” Rosa said. “My brother taught me when I was a little […]
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The Holocaust and Jewish identity
Bernie Sanders is the most successful Jewish candidate for the presidency ever. It’s a rare sign of the health of our republic that no one seems to much care or even notice. Least of all, Sanders himself. Which prompted Anderson Cooper in a recent Democratic debate to ask Sanders whether he was intentionally keeping his […]
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