02
May
Book Review | 1945 and Other Stories
Jewish themes are central to the fictional works of Gábor T. Szántó, whose latest book is “1945 and Other Stories.”
01
May
The Liberators of Mauthausen
Eugene Cohen, Benjamin Ferencz and Jack Nowitz were liberators, interpreters, investigators and prosecutors of Nazi war crimes.
01
Jul
Wisdom Project | Reggie Schatz, 98, Says “Family Is Everything”
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Pam Janis
The Wisdom Project at Moment: Inspirational conversations with wise people who have been fortunate to live long lives
This week’s conversation is with Regina (“Reggie”) Schatz,...
24
Jun
Jewish World War II Soldier Finally Rests In Peace
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Dan Freedman
“For a Jewish kid from Pittsburgh to be buried with German soldiers under three Latin crosses, it just tore at my heart!”
29
Apr
A Jewish Activist Remembers Surviving a Bombing Raid in Nazi Germany
“I wanted readers to see and feel what it was like to be a child subjected to intensive bombing,” writes Marione Ingram, who as a child survived the Allied bombing of Hamburg, Germany, in 1943.
01
Mar
Wisdom Project | Morris Waitz, 100, Keeps Thinking About Tomorrow
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A fortune teller predicted Morris Waitz would die in World War II. Now 100, he says he “beat that by a little bit.”
05
Dec
Antisemitism Monitor | Week of June 5, 2023
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Moment
Antisemitic sculpture must remain at a church in Germany. Suspected terrorist attack on Jews making a pilgrimage in Tunisia. Rudy Giuliani mocks Jewish traditions in the U.S. Read more in this week’s Antisemitism Monitor Newsletter.
13
Sep
Memoir | Crossing the Krimml Pass
Bricha guides didn’t allow refugees to carry lights, not only to be invisible to border guards but also so they could not see the plunging drop-offs beside the trail.
18
Jul
Sanctuary and Humiliation: The Wartime Haven in Shanghai
Although the Shanghai ghetto was in one of the most dilapidated parts of the city, it was totally unlike the Nazi ghettos of Europe.
16
Jun
Wisdom Project | Agnes Biro Rothblatt, 90
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“There was no food, no heat. My mother scavenged for wood from bombed and abandoned houses to get heat. Eventually, the Iron Curtain closed the country. My parents felt that we had no future there. We were considered too bourgeois.”
19
Jan
Visual Moment | Tales of Rifles and Resistance
These are the words of Faye Schulman, who, at age 16 during World War II, fled to the forests outside her hometown of Lenin, Poland, after witnessing her entire family being executed by the Nazis.
05
Nov
Beshert | My Mother’s Love Song
Penny and Peter first met on a kibbutz in Palestine, where they both moved to escape the second World War. They were separated when she moved to England, only to be reunited years later, after he had become a famous singer in Israel.