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Culture What a hare with amber eyes can tell us about an art collection lost to Nazi looting
The newest installation at the Jewish Museum tells the story of a vanished world. But a series of entirely contemporary photographs are among the most striking objects on display. Captured by the Dutch architectural photographer Iwan Baan, the photos show a series of opulent rooms filled with prosaic everyday objects. A hand sanitizer dispenser stands…
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News Germany cut a reparations check to a Holocaust survivor. Then it demanded the money back.
The reparations checks Amira Gezow received every three months from the German government mattered to her. She had worked to get them and had helped other survivors secure theirs. For Gezow, a German-born woman who lost both her parents in the Holocaust, the checks were, monetarily, a pittance: 72.55 euros per month, or about 240…
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Yiddish World Poet Abraham Sutzkever’s memoirs of the Vilna Ghetto are now in English
Abraham Sutzkever From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg: Memoir and Testimony Edited and translated by Justin D. Cammy Afterword by Justin D. Cammy and Avraham Novershtern McGill-Queen’s University Press (2021), 488 pp. Although Abraham (Avrom, in Yiddish) Sutzkever is usually referred to as one of the greatest Yiddish poets in the twentieth-century, he also played…
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News The secret to a 75 year marriage, from ‘the oldest Holocaust-surviving couple’
Sam and Frieda Weinreich are thriving. Sam is 102-years-old and Frieda is 97. They have been married 75 years. If they are not the oldest Holocaust-surviving couple in the United States, as local Memphis news reports claim, they are certainly in the running. Frieda is tiny, like you could put her in your pocket. But…
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News Remembering Izzy Arbeiter, the Holocaust survivor honored by Germany
If ever there was someone who had cause to be embittered, it would be Izzy Arbeiter, who died Friday at the age of 96. He was 14 when the German occupied his town in Plock, Poland in 1939. Soon came the ghettos, then the torturous goodbye to his parents and little brother who would be…
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Fast Forward Texas lawmaker investigating book about women and the Holocaust
An anthology about the experience of women during the Holocaust is among more than 800 titles cited by a Republican lawmaker in Texas who has launched an investigation into books taught in the state’s public schools. “Life, Death and Sacrifice: Women and Family in the Holocaust,” a collection of academic scholarship, was listed among hundreds…
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Culture How a notorious Nazi almost got a Hollywood biopic — and why Kubrick refused to direct
Albert Speer, the Nazi architect who built a Cathedral of Light for Hitler and commanded millions of prisoners in the forced production of weaponry, had a comfortable second life. After serving 20 years in prison, Speer became a best-selling author, penning the memoir “Inside The Third Reich.” Naturally, in 1971, he and his publisher were…
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Opinion I was taught the ‘opposing perspective’ of the Holocaust in middle school. I’ll never forget it
In the fallout from NBC News’ revelations that teachers in Texas were told to teach “opposing perspectives” about the Holocaust, many people are asking what teaching “opposing perspectives” of the Holocaust looks like. I know from personal experience, since I attended a Holocaust class that invited us to consider the Nazi perspective in middle school….
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