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Fast Forward Auschwitz Center Hopes to Restore Home of Last Jew in Oswiecim
The Auschwitz Jewish Center launched a fundraising campaign to rescue the house of Oswiecim’s last Jewish resident. The center, in the Polish town where the Auschwitz concentration camp was built, plans to transform the home of Szymon Kluger into a cafe that also will serve as a meeting place for local residents and visitors. As…
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Fast Forward 92-Year-Old Auschwitz Survivor Cited in Aussie
A 92-year-old Auschwitz survivor was among more than a dozen Jews to be honored on Australia Day. Eddie Jaku, a guide at the Sydney Jewish Museum since 1992, received a Medal of the Order of Australia in Saturday’s awards that featured 425 men and 146 women. Jaku travels frequently to the country’s capital of Canberra…
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Culture Finding Tale of Redemption at Auschwitz
● The Thief of Auschwitz By Jon Clinch CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 276 pages, $16 ‘The Thief of Auschwitz” stole my sleep. Jon Clinch’s latest novel, which he has chosen to self-publish, is a page-turner with style. It’s a simpler, quicker read than “Finn,” his impressive first novel, which brilliantly imagined the backstory of Huckleberry…
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Fast Forward Record 1.43M Visitors at Auschwitz
The Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp memorial and museum attracted a record number of visitors in 2012. There were 1.43 million visitors to the grounds of the former Nazi camp last year – the most in the museum’s 65-year history, the museum said on its website. More than 1 million people have visited the memorial and museum…
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Life Hanukkah Miracles
I’m not even certain of the year, but it was sometime after the tattoo and before the death march. Aron Lieb was in his early twenties, but he felt elderly. He was working in a coal mine, forced by the Nazis to supply fuel for their war effort. Every night after he emerged from the…
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Fast Forward Anniversary of Jews’ Deportation Remembered in Oslo
The Oslo Jewish Museum will open an exhibition on the Holocaust in Norway exactly 70 years after hundreds of Norwegian Jews were shipped to Auschwitz. The museum will open the exhibition on Nov. 26 at exactly 2:55 p.m., the time of departure 70 years ago of the passenger ship Luna, which carried 552 Jews destined…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz ‘Portraitist’ Dies at 95
Wilhelm Brasse, known as the “Portraitist of Auschwitz,” has died. Brasse died Tuesday in Zywiec, Poland. He was 95. At the Auschwitz death camp, he took pictures of prisoners and photos for the experiments of Josef Mengele and Eduard Wirths. He had been sent to Auschwitz for refusing to register with the Volksliste, which classified…
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Books Némirovsky’s ‘Wine of Solitude’ Confirms Her Place
The Wine of Solitude By Irène Némirovsky Vintage, 256 pages. $15 When we first meet Hélène Karol, she is an 8-year-old girl growing up in Ukraine. She dislikes, and is disliked by, her mother, an exceedingly unhappy member of the morally and financially bankrupt bourgeoisie. Hélène loves and admires her father, who doesn’t care much…
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