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Culture Anne Frank didn’t live here — she never had the chance
A full-scale recreation of the 'Secret Annex' opens in New York, a place the Frank family sought vainly to reach
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Fast Forward Children of Bergen-Belsen Survivors Warn ‘Never Forget,’ 70 Years After Liberation
(JTA) — Seventy years after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by British troops, some 100 people personally touched by the history returned to the site to share their memories and warn against forgetting. Among them were children born at a displaced persons camp for survivors less than two miles from the camp. Survivors…
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Culture Why I’m Paying $120 To See Rush
The Canadian prog/hard rock trio Rush — performers of epic, ridiculously complex songs, heroes of nerds and inspirers of air drum solos — have announced that their upcoming spring and summer tour will “most likely be their last major tour of this magnitude.” The one and only time I’ve seen the band (fronted by Geddy…
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Fast Forward Helen Bamber, British Jewish Human Rights Activist, Dies at 89
Jewish Human rights activist Helen Bamber, who founded organizations to help victims of torture and violence, has died at 89. Born in 1925, Bamber protested against the British fascist movement of Oswald Mosley as a teenager in London, according to an obituary published Friday in the London Jewish Chronicle. Following World War II, Bamber joined…
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Culture Holocaust Survivors’ Stories as Cartoons
There’s a painting of Hitler with an almost Picasso-esquely skewed face, and a blue coat. There’s a painting of a boy in a brown suit peering at a swastika painted on a wall. And then there are paintings of houses, people taking walks, forests and trees, lots of trees. In other words, the paintings of…
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Fast Forward Grandfather of California Killer Elliot Rodger Took Famed Concentration Camp Photos
The grandfather of the man suspected in the mass killing in Santa Barbara, California, was a famed British photojournalist who took iconic photos of Jewish survivors and mass graves at liberated concentration camps in the final weeks of World War II. Police identified Elliot Rodger, 22, a college student as the gunman who drove through…
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The Schmooze Tweeting Anne Frank
‘Tis the season to tweet, pray and memorialize Jewish thoughts online. In the past year, we’ve seen the Western Wall get a twitter account and Auschwitz develop its own Facebook page. This past week, the Anne Frank Center USA along with the U.N. Holocaust Program launched a twitter account for Anne Frank, asking students who…
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The Schmooze Dance of the Veil: French Jewish Feminist Enters the Académie française
Back in 2008, the Forward celebrated when French Jewish feminist Simone Veil, an Auschwitz survivor, was elected to the prestigious Académie française. On Thursday March 18, Veil was formally inducted into the Academy, welcomed with a speech by the veteran author Jean d’Ormesson, who is so stuffy and stately that in France, The Jean D’Ormesson…
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