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Opinion ‘I’m not scared of anything anymore’: what it’s like leaving Auschwitz with a Holocaust survivor
'I have nightmares from the memories,' Harry Olmer told me as we walked to Birkenau. 'But I’m not scared of anything anymore.'
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Opinion To memorialize their salvation, survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto built a sewer
The Warsaw Ghetto Survivor’s Memorial is designed to look like a sewer — once the source of weapons, of food, of information for Jews stuck in the ghetto.
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Opinion ‘Never forgive and never forget’: Why would a Jew live in Poland post-Holocaust?
On a recent trip to Nozyk Synagogue and the Jewish Cemetery of Warsaw, our deputy opinion editor describes how the of the weight of past atrocities affect Jewish perceptions of reality today.
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News ‘I have people who support me’: How a Ukrainian refugee found shelter at an Auschwitz education center
Oksana Naumchuk was supposed to host friends visiting from Poland in her Kyiv apartment this May. All she had to do before then: Finish renovating her kitchen. Now, Naumchuk doesn’t know when she’ll return to Ukraine. “I hate this word ‘refugee,’” she said. “But this is how it is.” Naumchuk, 26, is one of an…
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Yiddish World It’s not your grandparents’ Poland anymore. Or is it?
The late filmmaker Menachem Daum described two Polands in this essay — one of inclusivity, another of ethnic nationalism
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Opinion Germany denied my Holocaust survivor mother reparations — twice
When I was 34, I discovered my mother was a Holocaust survivor. My parents finally put their hellish marriage out of its misery and called it quits. In the aftermath, I came across an affidavit in which my mother was claiming financial support. In it, she stated she was born into the Jewish faith. It…
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Yiddish World An Echo of Jewish Lublin through Yiddish Fonts
“Normally, a poster would not include so much empty space. But any poster about Lublin must contain empty space,” Robert told me. I was standing in the print shop of Dom Słów or The House of Words in Lublin, Poland, next to visionary printer Robert Sawa in his signature ink-stained apron, his long graying hair…
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Culture Yiddish porn, Einstein’s letters and Rabbi Schneerson’s sermons united in ‘largest single remnant of Jewish life’ in Europe
In 2014, Jonathan Brent discovered something he didn’t know he was missing. Walking into the Wroblewski Library in Vilnius, he saw a long table covered with boxes. Inside were documents belonging to the organization he heads, YIVO, the Institute for Jewish research, which was founded in Vilna and moved its operations to New York in…
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