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By Roy S. Johnson | [email protected] September 06, 2016 at 4:00 PM, updated September 06, 2016 at 11:17 PM It’s not always easy to talk about history—not the most wrenching and shameful periods, the heinous events and people without conscience …
By Christine Giordano Aug 24, 2016 The designer tells BAZAAR.com how she rose from the holocaust ghettos to become one of the most successful brands in handbag history. At 95, Judith Leiber carefully walks down an aisle of her palladian-style …
CARLO WOLFF | STAFF REPORTER [email protected] Even if German authorities track down all surviving Nazi operatives and convict them as accessories to the murder of Jews in World War II, such work will not be done, German lawyers involved in …
By Linze Rice | August 26 Ben Scheinkopf Facebook/Cisco Diaz WEST RIDGE — After 60 years serving Chicago’s North Side, Ben “The Barber” Scheinkopf’s California Avenue barber shop has closed. A sign on the door signed by “Benny the Barber,” a 96-year-old …
New investigation into newborns abducted from Yemenite families reveals practice may have gone beyond Middle Eastern Jewish communities By Raoul Wootliff August 14, 2016, 1:06 pm Stories of babies “disappeared” from Yemenite families by Israel in the early years of …
Lisa J. Huriash Contact Reporter Sun Sentinel DIRECT VIDEO LINK This has never been about the money, said Norman Trysk-Frajman. It’s about his fading memories, and the principle of it all. All that Trysk-Frajman has left of his grandparents who …
Awards made Saturday night at event in Orlando, Fla. Posted: August 8, 2016 – 11:14am By Phil Anderson [email protected] A Topeka author who chronicled the amazing story of a Holocaust survivor won four gold medal awards last weekend at the Florida …
A French Olympian who is the grandson of a Holocaust survivor won a silver medal with his team on Monday in the men’s freestyle relay finals at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. The swimmer, Fabien Gilot, — who, as Tablet …
By Adrienne Holguin on July 16, 2016 Out of the 30 original Holocaust survivors who resettled in El Paso several decades ago, just a handful remains alive. As these survivors reach the end of their lives, many wonder how future …
Corey Samuels traveled to Washington, D.C., to honor her late grandfather, who survived Nazi death camps By Pam Kragen | 4:29 p.m. July 12, 2016 CARDIFF — For the last 40 years of his life, Henry Oertelt dedicated his life to …