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Art In Skokie, Memories Of Genocide Retold In Stories Of Everyday Objects
Objects and images, linking memory and history, are a mainstay of museum exhibitions. They are the embodiment of synecdoche, the part standing in for the whole. A photo album, a china set, a teddy bear — even the most quotidian of artifacts — all resonate with special poignancy when associated with stories of persecution and…
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Fast Forward Italian Jews Enraged Over Mussolini’s Granddaughter Threatening Tweet
ROME (JTA) – The granddaughter of Italy’s Nazi ally fascist dictator Benito Mussolini unleashed a storm of protest from the Jewish community with a tweeted threat to sue anyone who posted “pictures or phrases” that were “offensive” regarding her grandfather. Alessandra Mussolini, a longtime right-wing politician and currently an Italian member of the European Parliament,…
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Fast Forward Infamous Holocaust Denier Robert Faurisson Dies In Vichy
(JTA) — Robert Faurisson, a former French academic whose denial of the Holocaust has inspired many claims that the genocide did not happen, died in his hometown of Vichy. He was 89. British-born Faurisson was a staunch defender of Marshal Philippe Petain, the French leader who collaborated with Nazi occupiers of the country during World…
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Fast Forward Germany Sees Dramatic Increase In British Jews Applying For Citizenship
(JTA) — The number of Britons who requested Germany for the citizenship that was robbed from their families by the Nazis had risen from 43 in 2015 to 1,667 last year. The applications, which increased following the 2016 referendum in the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, use a German legal provision that aims…
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The Schmooze Meet The 93-Year-Old Israeli Just Crowned ‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’
Truth is often stranger than fiction in Israel, a land flowing not with milk and honey but startups and bagged chocolate milk, where Gal Gadot can win a beauty pageant and so can 93-year-old great-grandmother Tova Ringer. Ringer was crowned this year’s “Miss Holocaust Survivor” on Sunday at the annual competition at the Haifa Convention…
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Culture A Nazi Commandeered Her House. She Survived The Holocaust By Hiding In It Anyway.
An inquiry into the provenance of a painting by Egon Schiele has produced an extraordinary account of its former owner’s life in Nazi-occupied Vienna. Elsa Koditschek, a Jewish widow who sent her children to safety ahead of the German invasion, spent much of World War II living in hiding in an upstairs apartment of her…
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The Schmooze Hitler’s Great-Nephew Was Dumped By His Jewish Fiancee When She Learned His Identity
Romeo and Juliet. Paris and Helen. Hitler’s great-nephew and an anonymous Jewish Long Island woman. Some great passions just aren’t built to last. As if the news cycle wasn’t exhilarating enough, journalists for the German publication Bild at last succeeded in securing an interview with a long elusive source: one of the three great-nephews of…
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The Schmooze Justin Bieber Once Toured Yad Vashem Hand-In-Hand With Auschwitz-Survivor
Justin Bieber frequently sings about moms, a category of women he clearly has great affection for. But the grandmother file in his oeuvre was thin until this point. No longer. Bieber’s longtime manager Scooter Braun spoke about his client’s warm relationship with Braun’s grandmother on Thursday night. Receiving the title “Ambassador of Peace” at an…
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