Struggling for mere existence in the Shoah
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER By the time the Soviet army reaches Dörnhau — death’s waiting house — prisoner 33031 has ...
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Holocaust, genocide education bill progresses in Legislature
By ELANA WARREN / Assistant Editor Rep. Frank Hornstein (DFL-Minneapolis) introduced a bill on March 8 to mandate education about ...
Berlin today
The “Jewish Memorial Sculpture” was created by Will Lammert just prior to his death in 1957. Incomplete, the group of ...
Searching for a bridge to the past
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Jason Sommer had an uneasy childhood with a smart, gregarious father whose Shoah experience hovered just ...
Anti-vaxxers drift into antisemitism, insanity
The world learned in November about a new coronavirus variant called Omicron. The news isn’t good. Michael Osterholm, director of ...
A tour of Łódź
A shul stands abandoned in a building’s inner courtyard. (Photos: Mordecai Specktor) By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Łódź, Poland — Milena Wicepolska, ...
He remade his life in America
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR In a 2011 documentary, Sam Rafowitz: Remaking a Life, the eponymous subject comments: “About 15 and a ...
Netanyahu blundered as Syrian regime was on verge of collapse
By MOSHE GIT The Jewish annals of the post-WW II years are rife with complaints and accusations against the allies ...
Recipes from the Shoah
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Combining a desire for preservation with improvisation, and at great risk, Ilona Kellner created what may ...
Putin skews Holocaust history at global Auschwitz commemoration event in Jerusalem
By SAM SOKOL JERUSALEM (JTA) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s prime speaking slot at a Holocaust commemoration event here this ...
