When the past is a riddle
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Hans Neumann, a young Czech sought by the Gestapo for failing to report for deportation, chose ...
Tag: Terezin
In the footsteps of Franz Kafka: exploring Czech Jewish life
The esteemed 20th century author Franz Kafka, a Jewish native of Prague, was honored with an outdoors sculpture, on a ...
A walk through Jewish Prague
by CARLA WALDEMAR When the Nazis rolled through Czechoslovakia in 1939, they murdered its Jews, as was their grisly practice. ...
Theater in the ghetto
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR The Theresienstadt (Terezin, in Czech) ghetto was a prison for about 150,000 Jews, between 1941 and 1945, ...
'Why We Laugh' explores culture in the camps
A new adaptation of a Holocaust cabaret, written by Jewish prisoners at Terezín, explores what laughter means to us today ...
A Shoah memoir of courage, perseverance
Sky Tinged Red, by Isaia Eiger, translated by Dora Eiger Zaidenweber, Beaver’s Pond Press, 415 pages, $19.95 Reviewed by NEAL ...
Reliving a Holocaust experience
Helga’s Diary: A Young Girl’s Account of Life in a Concentration Camp, by Helga Weiss, W.W. Norton, 240 pages, $24.95 ...
