Joe Alterman
The war on jazz in Nazi Germany was never just about music. It was about control—of thought, of identity, of expression. It was a warning then, and it is a warning now.
Joe Alterman
Arrested and sent to Auschwitz, Louis Bannet faced a chilling ultimatum: Pass an audition for the camp orchestra or die.
Jewish themes are central to the fictional works of Gábor T. Szántó, whose latest book is “1945 and Other Stories.”
Eugene Cohen, Benjamin Ferencz and Jack Nowitz were liberators, interpreters, investigators and prosecutors of Nazi war crimes.
Pam Janis
Dan Freedman
“For a Jewish kid from Pittsburgh to be buried with German soldiers under three Latin crosses, it just tore at my heart!”
“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.
Pam Janis
A fortune teller predicted Morris Waitz would die in World War II. Now 100, he says he “beat that by a little bit.”
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.
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.
Although the Shanghai ghetto was in one of the most dilapidated parts of the city, it was totally unlike the Nazi ghettos of Europe.
Pam Janis
“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.”
