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Filmmaker Atom Egoyan’s Remember Captures Rage of Holocaust Victims
The Holocaust film Remember is set in the present. The thriller contains no flashbacks. It takes place entirely in North America. And yet Remember is also one of the most powerful and unique Nazi revenge films to come around in a long time. At the movie’s center are two Holocaust survivors Max (Martin Landau) and Zev […]
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Henry Winkler’s Symbol Of Holocaust Survival Lives On In Hollywood
Henry Winkler, the Jewish actor best known as tough-talking Arthur Fonzarelli — aka, “The Fonz” — on the 1970s-80s TV show “Happy Days,” is earning a new reputation. As a protector of a unique Holocaust legacy. Now 70 and a graying grandfather, the son of refugees from Nazi Germany, he keeps in his Hollywood home […]
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Israeli Cycle Team to Honor Italian Tour De France Champ Turned Holocaust Hero
Israel’s only professional cycling team will pay homage to two-time Tour de France champion Gino Bartali, riding the route that he secretly traveled to help Jews escape Nazi rule in Italy. Bartali, who passed away in 2000, rode as a courier to help the Jewish resistance against the Nazis. He is believed to have helped […]
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‘Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females’
Tribeca artist Linda Stein creates big, heroic tapestries made of scavenged black leather, elaborate brass buckles, historic artifacts, news articles etched into fabric, and metallic zippers that rip across her work like sewn-up wounds. It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the dark, discarded, and resurrected materials, but there’s a more powerful component woven into these […]
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Helping Holocaust survivors helps all of us
Sam and Frieda grew up in the same city in Poland, but they met walking down the same street at a displaced persons camp in Germany in 1946. “I noticed her right away,” Sam Weinreich said, looking at Frieda as if he was seeing her for the first time. “I said, ‘I like what I […]
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Nassau Holocaust Center Gives Voice To Genocidal Rape Survivors
Consolee Nishimwe knows how important it is to speak out. Nishimwe was only 14 years old when on April 6, 1994 Rwanda exploded into a state of chaos. That day also marked the beginning of the 100-day Rwandan genocide, which claimed upwards of 800,000 lives. Her family did what most would do when hate-filled perpetrators […]
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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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