Lost Jewish Children’s Poems Set to Music in ‘I Never Saw Another Butterfly’
Gerri Miller
April 28, 2020
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terezin
Vedem: The ‘Dead Poets Society’ of Terezin
Evan Henerson
May 18, 2016
Based on accounts of the people who knew him during his short life, Petr Ginz was the perfect person to create and pilot an underground magazine.
Piecing together daily life in Terezin
Jewish Journal
February 2, 2011
Erich Lichtblau-Leskly is relatively unknown, but the power of his art — created while he was an inmate of the concentration camp known as the Theresienstadt ghetto — is evident in the exhibition “The Art Of Erich Lichtblau-Leskly” at the newly opened Museum of the Holocaust in Pan Pacific Park. The paintings, on display through May 1, are rendered in a cartoon style, and many are sarcastic commentary on the desperate conditions under which the Jewish prisoners existed, contradicting Nazi propaganda that promoted Theresienstadt as a model facility where Jews supposedly were well treated. Lichtblau-Leskly’s work is singular when compared to most Holocaust-related art, according to E. Randol Schoenberg, president of the museum’s board of directo
Israel flag flies, a Czech surprise, voter fraud, bridge to understanding
Jewish Journal
October 10, 2008
\” . . . The blue and white now waves proudly on prestigious Wilshire, along with the Stars and Stripes. And we are all the more enriched for it. Kol hakavod! . . \”
Propaganda film disguised horrors of Terezin
Jewish Journal
October 2, 2008
It\’s in the nearby city of Terezin that one of the most unique, if bizarre stories of the period can be found. And it\’s all captured in the grainy film produced by the Nazis.
Artist’s Works From Death Camp Live On
Gaby Wenig
January 2, 2003
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis was a prolific Bauhaus artist, who taught art to the children of Terezin. Her art and the art produced by the children in the camp under her tutelage is the subject of a new exhibition at the Simon Weisenthal Center\’s Museum of Tolerance.
Zachor:Remember
Sherri Lipman
January 4, 2001
On Nov. 15, the Los Angeles Zimriyah Chorale, along with other Los Angeles choral groups, left for a European trip that included performances in Prague and, most notably, Nuremberg, where the chorale participated, on Nov. 25 and 26, in performances of Leonard Bernstein\’s \”Symphony No. 3, Kaddish,\” in a concert hall built on the site of the famous Nazi Nuremberg rallies of the 1930s.
A Miracle Reawakened
Magnus Bennett
June 15, 2000
The fading Hebrew inscriptions that adorn the walls of a small storeroom in the town of Terezin can be seen in virtually any synagogue around the globe.But thousands of Jews have been flocking to the recently discovered room because of its unique role in history – as a makeshift synagogue during the former Czech ghetto\’s darkest days.
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