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holocaust
New book prompts soul-searching in Lithuania about Holocaust-era complicity
Jewish Journal
February 17, 2016
As the author of a best-seller that deals with female sexuality after 50, the Lithuanian novelist Ruta Vanagaite is used to embarrassing questions from journalists about her private life.
A child’s life in the Warsaw Ghetto
Avishay Artsy
July 9, 2015
Polish-Jewish doctor and educator Janusz Korczak was famous throughout Europe as director of the Warsaw Ghetto orphanage and an advocate for children’s rights.
‘Paper Love’: Paving the way for post-survivor storytelling
Jewish Journal
November 4, 2014
As the last generation of Holocaust survivors ages and dies, efforts to capture their final, untold stories have abounded.
Iranian-Jewish doctor spreads Holocaust truth in Farsi
Karmel Melamed
May 7, 2014
As Jews worldwide remembered and honored the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust in recent weeks, Dr. Ari Babaknia, a renowned Newport Beach Iranian-Jewish obstetrician and gynecologist, was crisscrossing the country — touring Southern California and New York City — and making his own unique contribution to the cause.\n
Six million reasons I don’t like the new Holocaust book
Jewish Journal
January 27, 2014
I admit it. I dropped the ball on the story about the new remember-the-Holocaust-by-printing-the-word-Jew-six-million-times book. I saw it sitting in a veteran Jewish journalist’s office a week ago, but forgot to bring it up to my fellow JTA editors.
Survivor, storyteller, celebrity, sage: Elie Wiesel at 85
Jonah Lowenfeld
September 24, 2013
When talking about Elie Wiesel, who turns 85 on Sept. 30, it is far too easy to fall into a list of superlatives. As a child who survived Auschwitz and other concentration camps, Wiesel witnessed more death and more horrors than most human beings ever will. A onetime journalist who wrote for Hebrew- and Yiddish-language newspapers, starting in the 1950s, Wiesel has gone on to publish more books than most writers ever do, including “Night,” which has become the second-most widely read work of Holocaust literature in the world.
Songs of hope at Auschwitz
Jewish Journal
August 14, 2013
When Judith Schneiderman was 14, she was taken from Hungary and sent to Auschwitz. It seemed that all hope was lost — that is, until she opened her mouth.
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