‘Resistance: They Fought Back On PBS’ And A Discussion With Producer Paula Aspell And Holocaust Historian Michael Berenbaum
During this week of International Holocaust Remembrance, Resistance: They Fought Back, an important new Holocaust documentary is on PBS. A discussion I led is on YouTube ...
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Amid horrors of Holocaust, Polish Franciscan mother superior saved hundreds of Jewish children
"I will not send away any Jewish child," assured Mother Matylda Getter, superior of the Warsaw province of the Congregation ...
An Appleton man shares his mother’s and grandmother’s story on Holocaust Remembrance Day
As Action 2 News’ photojournalist, Steve Hopper flips through the pages of his family’s scrapbooks, he’s reminded of the ...
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The Jews Who Fought Back: The Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
But there were some notable exceptions to the role, some brave Jews who did choose to fight back against Nazi tyranny instead ...
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Perelmuter Family’s Painful Trip to Trace their History in Poland
A trip to Nazi concentration camps and the ruins of Jewish life after the Holocaust is not a typical fun family getaway. Yet it is one that Rabbi Abba and Chanie Perelmuter and their children recently ...
Memorializing the Holocaust Needs to Go Beyond Auschwitz
That creates risks: the Holocaust didn’t begin with mass murder. The dehumanization of Jews progressed gradually from public ...
We must remember the Holocaust beyond Auschwitz
Remembering the atrocities at Auschwitz is vital, but we can’t lose sight of the fact that Auschwitz is only one part of the ...
How Jan. 27 came to be International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
A historian of the Holocaust and curator of the Auschwitz exhibition, now in Toronto, invites all who gather on Jan. 27 to ...
Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago. The spotlight is on survivors as their numbers dwindle
Commemorations are being held Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet ...
Auschwitz 80 years since liberation: Ryszard Horowitz's story of survival and making the American Dream
An exclusive interview with Auschwitz survivor and award-winning photographer Ryszard Horowitz, on his extraordinary life and ...
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Holocaust survivor’s family searches for answers while retracing her steps at Auschwitz
Monday marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. One of the youngest survivors was an eight-year-old Polish girl named Rutka. She moved to Canada after ...