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This is a recording of the April 18 Zoom webinar Walking the Streets Under Which the Ghettos Lay The video linked here is from a live event that occurred April 18, Holocaust Remembrance Day — Walking The Streets Under Which …
Recent photos from Cedar Rapids, Mount Vernon appearances. (photographer credits to come)
Lane Sainty and Melina Walling Tue, February 14, 2023 at 1:31 PM CST·11 min read When you’ve been married for 68 years, you get used to a certain question: What’s the secret? “We were just asked that yesterday, actually, by …
Solomon Perel in an undated photo. “I’m not a Jew,” he lied to his Wehrmacht captors in 1941. “I’m an ethnic German.”Credit…Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo/Alamy
They stood by each other at Birkenau, married other Holocaust survivors, lived near each other in Alabama and remained close into their 90s. By Richard Sandomir Sept. 23, 2022 One day in 1944 at the Birkenau concentration camp in German-occupied Poland, …
At the Czech & Slovak Museum & LibraryOctober 19 @ 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM The History and Mysteries of Prague’s Jewish Quarter with the Author of Haunted Prague Prague is the most mysterious of places, one of Europe’s most hauntingly beautiful—and just …
“The U.S. and the Holocaust,” coming to PBS Sept. 18, examines the reasons behind the country’s inadequate response to Germany’s persecution of Jews. By Joseph Berger Published Sept. 1, 2022Updated Sept. 2, 2022 A new documentary about the Holocaust opens with photos of …
He was 16 when a fellow inmate, a magician, taught him a card trick in the barracks of the extermination camp. He called it a “miracle.” The New York Times By Richard Sandomir July 21, 2022 In the Auschwitz barracks where …
She was a rare survivor who spoke — in recent years — of her same-sex relationship in the concentration camps, and how it sustained her. By Penelope Green May 27, 2022 Margot Heuman was 14 when she and her family were …
The Thaler Holocaust Committee is partnering with Orchestra lowa to present a concert that will feature Orchestra low musicians performing two works in remembrance of the Holocaust. The main work on the program is a 50-minute piece called Quartet for …