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By Ellie Silverman March 28 Email the author An inspector from the Dutch education ministry arrived at Johan van Hulst’s teacher training institute in Amsterdam on the morning of June 19, 1943. He noticed youngsters and, with SS soldiers standing …
2018 Yom HaShoah Michael Bornstein & Debbie Holinstat The Thaler Holocaust Remembrance Fund is proud to announce our 2018 Yom HaShoah Guest Speakers Michael Bornstein and Debbie Holinstat. The authors of Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young …
A Swiss diplomat has been credited with leading the largest civilian rescue operation of World War Two. But instead of being applauded for saving thousands of Jewish lives, he was reprimanded and – until recently – largely forgotten, as the …
By Philip Gourevitch January 5, 2018 There was nothing ennobling, in Appelfeld’s view, about surviving the Holocaust. There was a feral vitality, perhaps, but the damage and the haunting were forever. Photograph by Antonio Olmos / eyevine / Redux “I’m …
Unique program pairs kids today with kids killed in the Holocaust by Melissa Silverberg December 27, 2017 When Jodi Oldani opened her mail and saw photos of Israel and Jacob Byniecki staring up at her, she immediately started crying. The …
A HERO AMONG US Documentary Film Update November 2017 From Humanities Iowa: “We’re thrilled to announce the recipients of our most recent major grant awards cycle! Drake University Fair Field Productions CARTHA Thaler Holocaust Remembrance Fund Dubuque County Historical Society …
Magda Brown is no stranger to the concept of persevering. A survivor of the Holocaust at age 17, a painful journey to Storm Lake to share her story was not about to stop her. On her way, the 90-year-old fell …
Holocaust survivor was 18 before he knew he was Jewish. By Bill Sherman Tulsa World Documentary filmmaker Pierre Sauvage, born to Jewish parents in a French village that harbored thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, did not find out …
Diny Adkins listened intently, her eyes brimming with tears as a College of Charleston student performed a song about the Holocaust. The song, told from a young girl’s perspective, brought Adkins back to when she was 4 years old in …