‘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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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