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shoah
Exposing the anguish of making ‘Shoah’
Tom Tugend
February 22, 2016
Halfway through the 12 years Claude Lanzmann worked on his epic documentary “Shoah,” he decided to take a brief break by taking a swim in the Mediterranean Sea.
Holocaust lessons brought live to classrooms
Avishay Artsy
May 27, 2015
“When you see injustice, stand up.”
Letter to Japan: Why we mourn, what we lost
Jewish Journal
November 24, 2014
Many people I meet in Japan ask, why we Jews revere the memory of Chiune Sugihara.
Nazis’ stooge or well-meaning Jew?
Tom Tugend
January 27, 2014
When the French director Claude Lanzmann completed the editing of his eight-hour epic documentary, “Shoah,” in 1985, he still had stashed away nearly 11 hours of interviews with one man.
Bonham Carter, Rabbi Mirvis named to British Holocaust panel
Jewish Journal
January 27, 2014
Actress Helena Bonham Carter and Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis were among those chosen for the new British Holocaust Commission.
At Auschwitz, Israel’s Netanyahu says Jews still threatened
Jewish Journal
June 13, 2013
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, visiting the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz on Thursday, said the Jewish state would act — alone if necessary — to prevent a repetition of the Holocaust.
A suit and a story from a Holocaust survivor
Rob Eshman
May 1, 2013
It had been a tough week. The more news I read about the Boston bombing, the less I understood. Who were these young men, full of grievance, using a fresh start in America to maim and kill innocents?
Nazi role-playing at Santa Monica High School causes stir
Ryan Torok
April 24, 2013
Generally, expert advisers counsel against teaching about the Holocaust by having students do exercises that re-create the experience. Role-play activities can reinforce negative views, stereotype group behavior and are pedagogically unsound, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
A Turkish Muslim perspective on Yom HaShoah
Jewish Journal
April 8, 2013
When people of reason and conscience look back on the subject of Shoah (otherwise known as the Holocaust) today, it is common to hear questions like: \”How could a nation of philosophers, composers of classical music, technology, poets, in this seat of the Enlightenment itself, suddenly give vent to savagery not seen since the Dark Ages? How could such dreadful, inhumane impulses seize every apparatus of a nation and cause it to commit such atrocities?\”
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