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By Leah Pickett on 09.06.16 at 08:00 AM CHICAGO READER In a 1988 Fresh Air interview, the late author Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, explained why he wrote Night, his memoir. “I knew I would have to bear witness,” Wiesel …
Bill Tammeus | Jul. 20, 2016 The recent death of Elie Wiesel — Holocaust survivor, author, Nobel Peace Prize recipient — received a lot of media attention, and properly so. He was a robust moral voice in a confused, tentative …
By Jessica Eggert June 17, 2016 for imic.com A Holocaust survivor recalled the day he was freed from a concentration camp for BuzzFeed — and his story is chilling. See below for full length video The man, who isn’t …
May 24, 2016by Steve Fuller on Education, News, News-Featured ELLSWORTH — Charles Rotmil stood on the stage at Ellsworth High School in front of a photo on a large screen, showing him and his family almost eight decades earlier. It …
JONAH L. ROSENBLUM | STAFF REPORTER [email protected] The May 19 U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Cleveland Luncheon will feature two unusual aspects – an author-subject combination and a time capsule. Wendy Holden, author of the 2015 book “Born Survivors: Three Young …
Help tell America’s story. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Interactive Web Site Together, we can uncover what ordinary people around the country could have known about the Holocaust from reading their local newspapers in the years 1933–1945. We need you …
Lena Gilbert talks with Dennis Green about activities to be held as part of Holocaust Remembrance Month, including lectures by Renata Laxova who escaped from Europe as a child — part of the Thaler Holocaust Memorial Fund. …