Jill Werman Harris
By Jill Werman Harris
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Life These Blinged-Out Bras Are Helping Find a Cure for Breast Cancer
This Sunday, May 15, within the halls of the Academy Mansion, a stately and elegant building off Fifth Avenue, teenage girls and their mothers will celebrate community, judge bras and raise awareness for breast health. Spearheaded four years ago by high school students, who were inspired by their private school’s no fabric fashion show, Protect…
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Books A Lost World in an Old Box of Film
In 2009, writer Glenn Kurtz was sifting through a closet in his parent’s Florida home when he discovered a reel of 16mm Kodachrome color film in a musty cardboard box that had belonged to his grandparents, David and Liza Kurtz. As prosperous Jewish American tourists, the Kurtz’s decided to take a six-week summer vacation through…
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News The Nazi Who Saved Us From Kristallnacht
The Wachses were just another middle class Jewish family living in Vienna. Moritz Wachs and his wife Henia Fach had two children, Ilie, who was born in 1927, and his sister Deborah, who followed in 1935. Moritz was a tailor who owned his own small tailor and clothing shop. His head tailor was a quiet…
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The Schmooze My Father The Ritchie Boy: An Interview With Nina Wolff Feld
Shortly before his death, Walter Wolff handed his daughter, Nina Wolff Feld, a green metal file box. In it was a treasure trove of wartime letters written by him during his time as a U.S. Army Intelligence officer to his family. Feld, a writer and artist born and bred in New York, translated the letters…
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