Keeping the Flame Alive
Dr. Gary Schiller, chairman of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, believes that the future of intelligent, dignified Holocaust scholarship lies not in the hands of the Jewish community, but beyond it.
Dr. Gary Schiller, chairman of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, believes that the future of intelligent, dignified Holocaust scholarship lies not in the hands of the Jewish community, but beyond it.
At 78, Dario Gabbai, a Sephardic Jew and one of very few sonderkommandos still alive, says he continues to struggle with feelings of guilt and degradation.
Are Johnny Hart\’s views on religion as prehistoric as his comic-strip characters?
Many Holocaust survivors have turned to self-publication as a way of confronting their past lives.
Doris Roberts, who plays Marie Barone on the popular sitcom \”Everybody Loves Raymond,\” will read the Grace Paley story \”Goodbye and Good Luck\” at a fundraiser for the Jewish Women\’s Theatre Project (JWTP) on April 23.
One wet night 15 years after the end of World War II, in the student union of my university in Northern Ireland, I watched a documentary film made up of home movies taken by Soviet troops at the liberation of the concentration camps. Unlike some similar Allied footage, the Soviets, interested in the propaganda value of the material, had made no attempt to sanitize it for public consumption. They wanted the film to be every bit as hellish as the reality.
If the Holocaust had its millions of unsung victims, it also had thousands of unknown rescuers, of whom some paid with their lives and many others with broken careers and social ostracism.