Holocaust
Can a new ritual shift our relationship to the Holocaust?
Michal Govrin and a team of artists, historians and scientists worked to understand the very nature of memory.
Your guide to 2021 (virtual) Yom HaShoah commemorations
Despite a year of isolation and pandemic restrictions, Jewish communities around the country are finding ways to come together for Yom HaShoah, the annual commemoration to honor the more than six million Jews murdered by Nazis and Nazi collaborators during the Holocaust.
2 generations of Germans look to the past and future of the country’s Jews
“I really do want to make sure we do not get defined by just being a victim or by the question of antisemitism.”
Jewish history, and RBG, shaped Rachel Wainer Apter’s path to New Jersey’s top court
The new NJ Supreme Court justice was inspired by her great-grandparents who fled antisemitic persecution and by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Why not a Holocaust Survivors Day?
When more than 200 survivors gathered last year at the former Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz to commemorate the 75th anniversary of its liberation, it struck Jonathan Ornstein that there were three days each year to remember Nazi victims but no day to celebrate the lives of Holocaust survivors.
Why is this Haggadah different from all others? Hitler.
“The Hitler Haggadah” tells of the Allied victory in North Africa through the framing of the Passover story.
Is Disney’s ‘WandaVision’ a story of intergenerational Holocaust trauma?
The hit Marvel show is not an average superhero story. Its protagonist copes with intergenerational trauma from her parents’ experience in Auschwitz.
How the 1941 Dutch February Strike turbocharged a growing resistance movement in Nazi Europe
On Feb. 25, 1941, at least 100,000 Dutchmen stopped working to protest the Nazis’ persecution of Jews, bringing the economy to a halt for days.
A rabbi moves Holocaust survivors to front of vaccination line
The COVID-19 vaccination clinic for Holocaust survivors in a local synagogue started out a bit ominously: A police cruiser was stationed outside and a bomb-sniffing German Shepherd was deployed inside, zealously looking for explosives.
Attention Gina Carano: Jews weren’t passive, ‘gentle’ victims. They were fighters too.
“The gentle spirit” of Jews in the Holocaust is not the compliment she thinks it is — nor is it accurate.