‘Harbor From the Holocaust’ Documents Jewish Refugees in Shanghai
20,000 Jews found sanctuary in Shanghai, China, and it’s the subject of the PBS documentary “Harbor From the Holocaust,” premiering Sept. 8.
20,000 Jews found sanctuary in Shanghai, China, and it’s the subject of the PBS documentary “Harbor From the Holocaust,” premiering Sept. 8.
Chaya Ostrower, “It Kept Us Alive: Humor in the Holocaust,” Translated by Sandy Bloom. (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2014) pp. 439.
Michael Berenbaum’s July 22, 2015 “Geneva is Not Munich, and President Obama is not Neville Chamberlain,” is written with characteristic knowledge and insight.
On March 16, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, D.C., will honor Michael Berenbaum with the museum’s National Leadership Award at a dinner in Los Angeles themed “What You Do Matters.”
Forty years ago, my wife, Marcia, and I attended a service at Valley Beth Shalom and were stunned by Rabbi Harold Schulweis’ intellectual passion, knowledge and remarkable down-to-earth sense of humor (“Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis: ‘Rabbi of Rabbis’ and World-Renowned Jewish Leader,” Jan. 2).