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By Joanna C. Valente Mar 21, 2017 Amy Kurzweil is a writer, illustrator, and cartoonist. Her debut book, a graphic memoir, “Flying Couch,” was just published–and it’s the story you’ve been wanting to read your entire life (even if you didn’t …
When I tried to hold my newborn daughter, my grandparents’ Holocaust stories stopped me cold By Noah Lederman I want to remember nothing more than holding her to my chest. The softness of her small, naked body. The breath. The …
Click here to listen to the program. By Emily Woodbury & Charity Nebbe Michael Bornstein was just four years old when his family was forced from their home in Poland and taken by train to Auschwitz. He survived seven …
The Max Rodrigues Garcia Story – Auschwitz, Auschwitz…I Cannot Forget You Thu, Mar 16 | 7:30 PM As long as I remain alive – Garcia’s story of survival of Nazi German Concentration Camp Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts The …
Survivor recounts escape from Nazi concentration camp How Dr. Jacob Eisenbach survived WWII despite incredible odds, and why he says he has to spread a message of tolerance. Erin Robinson He calls it “the story that must be told.” Dr. …
Click here to Register Wednesday, March 29, 2017 From Auschwitz to Iowa City: An Evening with Michael Bornstein, 66PhD A SPECIAL UIAA 150TH ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM When: 7 p.m. (CDT) Where: Main Lounge, Iowa Memorial Union The lecture, Q&A, and book …
A remarkable discovery in Lithuania brings a legendary tale of survival back to life A proposed museum in the former Jewish ghetto in Vilnius, Lithuania, features portraits of families who once lived there. (Christian Als) By Matthew Shaer Smithsonian Magazine …
Harry Jacobi is in a new film for Unicef that compares his experience of being a WWII refugee with Ahmed’s story about his escape from Syria. Jacobi escaped the Holocaust when he was a teenager in 1938 and ended up …
By David Rosenberg Survivor of three Nazi concentration camps, survivors’ reunion, Majdanek concentration camp, near Lublin, Poland, 1983.James Friedman As a child growing up in the Midwest in 1950s and ’60s, James Friedman was acutely aware of anti-Semitism. He regularly …
The Oscar-nominated short documentary tells the story of how a Holocaust survivor’s violin made it into the hands of a 12-year-old immigrant in the Bronx By Armin Rosen Joe’s Violin, one of the most remarkable Jewish-themed films of the year, …