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Fast Forward Just 50 Holocaust survivors will be at Auschwitz for the 80th anniversary of its liberation
The dwindling numbers offer a stark representation of the declining population of survivors who are still able to tell their stories
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Music Louisville Orchestra remembers its concertmaster with an opera he performed in a Nazi concentration camp
“Der Kaiser von Atlantis” was written in Theresienstadt by the Czech-Jewish composer Viktor Ullman, who was murdered. The teen violinist survived
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Film & TV In the Oscar race: Bob Dylan and Laszlo Toth face the limits of Jewish reinvention
'The Brutalist' and 'A Complete Unknown' show men whose masterpieces can’t escape their past
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Fast Forward Belgium’s railway should apologize but not pay for sending Jews to Nazi death camps, government panel concludes
One member of the commission, the son of Holocaust survivors, excoriated the conclusion
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Film & TV From WWII Amsterdam, a deeply disturbing story of Dutch complicity with the Nazis
Willy Lindwer's Holocaust documentary 'Lost City' unearths a gruesome chapter in Dutch history
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Yiddish World Psychologist, writer and Yiddish culture activist Michael Fox has died
In addition to a memoir, Fox authored two plays, a children's book and three novels.
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Film & TV How the discovery of a secret tunnel inspired a film about Jewish resistance
The PBS documentary ‘Resistance’ surfaced the often unsung stories of how Jews fought back against the Nazis
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Fast Forward His home did not survive the Eaton Fire. But one precious family heirloom did.
The Eaton Fire claimed Josh Kotler’s home but his grandmother’s menorah survived
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