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4 days ago
Germany news

Rena Quint, the girl who survived the Nazi concentration camps alone: Wherever you went, you saw and smelled death'

Rena Quint represents the voice of Holocaust survivors, emphasizing the importance of sharing their experiences before they are lost.
fromwww.harrowtimes.co.uk
1 week ago
Germany news

'I found my mother's story of escape from the Nazis hidden in a shoebox'

Kitty Fehr's diaries reveal her family's experiences fleeing Nazi Germany, discovered by her daughter after 80 years hidden in an old suitcase.
fromwww.nytimes.com
1 month ago
Germany news

As Children, They Fled the Nazis Alone. Newly Found Papers Tell Their Story.

The Kindertransport facilitated the escape of Jewish children from Nazi Germany to Britain, drastically altering many lives.
Hanna Zack Miley's experience exemplifies the emotional impact and lasting legacy of the Kindertransport.
fromThe Washington Post
19 hours ago
NYC parents

Eve Kugler, child survivor of the Holocaust, dies at 94

Eve Kugler's survival as a Jewish child during the Holocaust highlights the complexities of fleeing danger and the lasting impact of such a decision.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago
Writing

No one but Jews lost their apartments': how homes taken by Nazis in wartime Paris were never given back

The Malowanczyk family's story reflects the struggles of many Jews in post-war Paris who were denied the right to their homes.
fromTime Out New York
3 months ago
Writing

The new Anne Frank exhibit in NYC will haunt you

The Anne Frank exhibition in NYC offers a powerful, immersive experience that educates visitors about the Holocaust and its lasting impact.
Germany news
fromenglish.elpais.com
4 days ago

Rena Quint, the girl who survived the Nazi concentration camps alone: Wherever you went, you saw and smelled death'

Rena Quint represents the voice of Holocaust survivors, emphasizing the importance of sharing their experiences before they are lost.
Germany news
fromwww.harrowtimes.co.uk
1 week ago

'I found my mother's story of escape from the Nazis hidden in a shoebox'

Kitty Fehr's diaries reveal her family's experiences fleeing Nazi Germany, discovered by her daughter after 80 years hidden in an old suitcase.
Germany news
fromwww.nytimes.com
1 month ago

As Children, They Fled the Nazis Alone. Newly Found Papers Tell Their Story.

The Kindertransport facilitated the escape of Jewish children from Nazi Germany to Britain, drastically altering many lives.
Hanna Zack Miley's experience exemplifies the emotional impact and lasting legacy of the Kindertransport.
NYC parents
fromThe Washington Post
19 hours ago

Eve Kugler, child survivor of the Holocaust, dies at 94

Eve Kugler's survival as a Jewish child during the Holocaust highlights the complexities of fleeing danger and the lasting impact of such a decision.
Writing
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

No one but Jews lost their apartments': how homes taken by Nazis in wartime Paris were never given back

The Malowanczyk family's story reflects the struggles of many Jews in post-war Paris who were denied the right to their homes.
Writing
fromTime Out New York
3 months ago

The new Anne Frank exhibit in NYC will haunt you

The Anne Frank exhibition in NYC offers a powerful, immersive experience that educates visitors about the Holocaust and its lasting impact.
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fromThe Conversation
1 week ago

Almost Zion: Remembering a short-lived Jewish state in New York

Mordecai Manuel Noah's vision of Ararat as a Jewish city-state was ultimately unfulfilled as no Jews chose to settle there.
Writing
fromThe New Yorker
1 week ago

When Jews Sought the Promised Land in Texas

Cockerell's work sheds light on an ambitious historical initiative to redirect Jewish immigration to Galveston, Texas.
fromwww.hamhigh.co.uk
2 weeks ago
History

Rare book by friend of legendary poet comes home after 200 years

A rare 1807 edition of Hyman Hurwitz's "Elements of the Hebrew Language" was presented to the Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution.
fromMedievalists.net
2 weeks ago
History

More Than Scholars and Victims: The Forgotten Lives of Medieval Jews - Medievalists.net

Jewish women in the Middle Ages were largely overlooked, often depicted only as victims alongside male counterparts.
Writing
fromThe New Yorker
3 months ago

Why Zora Neale Hurston Was Obsessed with the Jews

Zora Neale Hurston's unpublished novel reflects her complex view on civil rights through her admiration for Jewish resilience and contributions to liberty.
London
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

The battle of Cable Street is entwined in my family's history and its message of hope still resonates | Tracy-Ann Oberman

Local communities successfully united against Oswald Mosley's fascist attempts to incite hatred in 1936, a lesson relevant to today's rising tensions against minorities.
Miscellaneous
fromNew York Post
5 months ago

Holocaust survivor calls vicious mob attack on Jews in Amsterdam a 'modern-day kristallnacht'

The attack on Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam has drawn alarming parallels to historic anti-Semitic violence, likened to Kristallnacht.
Writing
fromThe Nation
8 months ago

Lessons of a Weimar Anti-Fascist in Palestine

The author's father survived a violent attack by Nazis and later escaped Germany, highlighting personal and historical experiences during the rise of fascism.
fromThe New Yorker
11 months ago
Germany news

Piecing Together the Secrets of the Stasi

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, efforts to restore East Germany's secret police records have been ongoing for thirty years.
fromwww.nytimes.com
10 months ago

A Jewish Teen's Diary Recounts Pain and Resilience in a Nazi Ghetto

Yitskhok Rudashevski's diary from WWII, though not as famous as Anne Frank's, offers a vivid depiction of life in a Jewish ghetto and unique insights into the Holocaust.
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