The Holocaust Museum Houston reopens Saturday, and it’s about more than the...
The somber, signature black brick cylinder of the Holocaust Museum Houston suddenly looks like a different kind of beacon. After a two-year, $34 million expansion that has nearly tripled its size, the...
View ArticlePrague memorial to Jewish children who fled Nazis vandalised
A memorial honouring the escape of mostly Jewish children from the Nazis, organised by Sir Nicholas Winton, has been damaged in an apparently carefully planned attack. The Valediction Memorial at...
View ArticleArchitect Daniel Libeskind: How to Transform Horror Into Art, From Auschwitz...
Libeskind’s latest project, Through the Lens of Faith: Auschwitz, is at the former concentration camp itself, which today has been made into the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. (New York City’s Museum...
View ArticleA Holocaust Art Exhibit Was Vandalized, Again And Again. But Vienna Is...
On the night of Sunday, May 26, a public art installation in Vienna featuring portraits of Holocaust survivors was slashed with a knife by an unknown assailant. It wasn’t the first time. The...
View ArticleSeven Holocaust survivors named in Queen’s Birthday Honours List
Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen survivor Ruzena Levy is among seven Jewish refugees named in this weekend’s Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Levy, along with Walter Kammerling, Gabriele Keenaghan, Ernest...
View Article06/27/2019 – 7:00pm Join us at Book Culture on Columbus on Thursday, June...
From the award-winning New Yorker writer comes this essential volume spanning almost six decades. Admired for “a voice unlike any other” (Cynthia Ozick) and a style both “wry and poignant” (The New...
View ArticleThe Jewish Doctors of the Camps and Ghettos
Born in the Polish city of Lodz, Esther F. received her medical training in France and returned to her hometown in 1933. After the outbreak of World War II, she and thousands of other Jews were...
View ArticleJewish cemetery vandalized in Estonia
A Jewish cemetery in the Estonian capital of Tallinn was vandalized over the weekend, authorities confirmed on Tuesday. At the same time, an area near a bus stop in the city was tagged with large...
View ArticleThe Holocaust Survivor Who Deciphered Nazi Doublespeak The personal papers of...
They didn’t wait for the war to end. In August 1944, as soon as Soviet troop s swept the Nazis out of eastern Poland, a group of Jewish intellectuals rushed to cities like Lublin and Lodz to begin...
View ArticleThe Never Again Education & the Time for Holocaust Survivors Act
CONGRESSIONAL OUTREACH MESSAGES TIME FOR HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS ACT NEVER AGAIN EDUCATION ACT (S. 2085/H.R. 943) and I. Outreach on TIME for Holocaust Survivors Act (S. 2179) in the Senate I am reaching...
View ArticleIn Eastern Europe, Holocaust Museums are Missing From Key Historical Sites;...
(JTA) — In the capital of Lithuania, an institution formerly known as the Museum of Genocide Victims barely mentions the murder of nearly all the country’s Jews by Nazis and locals, focusing instead on...
View ArticleKlezmer Music and Memory at a Festival Celebrating Jewish Life in Poland
KRAKOW, Poland — There were lectures on the journey of Jews from shtetls in Poland to new homes in what would become Israel; workshops on chanting the Torah and cooking for Shabbat; exhibitions...
View ArticlePolish minister says Jewish museum’s director ‘politicized’ it
WARSAW (JTA) — Poland’s culture minister accused the head of the country’s main Jewish museum of politicizing his institution and said it’s why the director’s tenure has not been extended. The...
View ArticleArtist Uses 100,000 Banned Books To Build A Full-Size Parthenon At Historic...
The German city of Kassel has just become home for one of the most impressive pieces of art that we’ve seen in a while. It was created by the Argentinian artist Marta Minujín, 74, who has decided to...
View ArticleAn Improbable Relic of Auschwitz: a Shofar That Defied the Nazis
The daughter of a Holocaust survivor has brought forward a ram’s horn trumpet and her father’s account of the power of belief amid death. For years there have been fragmentary reports of almost...
View ArticleFilmed in Auschwitz With Former Prisoners, First Holocaust Feature Film Was a...
Centering around the story of a real Jewish heroine, the first ever Holocaust feature film was a revolutionary female-led experiment. ‘They did everything automatically, as returning prisoners. It was...
View Article2019 World Federation Conference in Vancouver Nov 1-4
The World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants (WFJCSH&D) will hold our 31st Annual Conference in Vancouver, BC, November 1 – 4, 2019, at the Sheraton Vancouver...
View ArticleOldest Austrian Holocaust survivor dies at 106
The oldest Austrian Holocaust survivor, who once estimated he spoke to half a million people while sharing his story, died Thursday at 106. Marko Feingold stayed active speaking out about the...
View ArticleGraham eyes bill on Holocaust-era insurance claims
Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham said Tuesday he will explore legislation that would pressure insurers to pay out more Holocaust-era insurance claims, over protests from an official who...
View ArticlePolish minister says Jewish museum’s director ‘politicized’ it
WARSAW (JTA) — Poland’s culture minister accused the head of the country’s main Jewish museum of politicizing his institution and said it’s why the director’s tenure has not been extended. The...
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