Posts Tagged: Holocaust Memorial
New Play by Son of Yad Vashem Architect Tackles Why We Build Holocaust Memorials (INTERVIEW)
False Solution is a provocative new one-act play by Oren Safdie being performed at La MaMa in New York City that grapples with the construction...
Brother of Infamous Nazi Hermann Goering Up for Prestigious Righteous of the Nations Award
Albert Goering, the brother of infamous Nazi Hermann Goering, is now among the candidates to receive the Righteous Among The Nations award. Albert was a...
Walking on Heroes’ Ground in Poland
WARSAW—"Zegota," the official unit of the Polish Underground Army tasked with helping Jews in German-occupied Poland from 1942-1945, was commemorated on the occasion of its...
Greek Neo-Nazi Party Rises as Economy Sinks
Tens of thousands of Greek protesters welcomed German Chancellor Angela Merkel to their country Oct. 9 with Nazi uniforms, Hitler salutes and swastika flags, lamenting...
France Inaugurates New Holocaust Memorial
A new memorial for the Jews who were sent to an internment camp during the Holocaust by the Nazi-collaborating French Vichy regime was...
The Marble Faces
One of my last stops on my trip to Germany was to meet the group One by One. My friend Martina a member of the...
Raoul Wallenberg’s American Connection
This summer's international celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Holocaust rescuer Raoul Wallenberg (Aug. 4) began June 26 with a symposium at...
Champion Cyclist to be Honored for Saving Lives of 800 Jews During Holocaust
In 1943, the fascist government of Italy assigned Gino Bartali - one of the worlds premier cyclists during World War II- to the country's traffic...
The Miracle of Jewish Recovery After the Holocaust – The DP Camp Story Part 1
Since 1994, Steven Spielberg's Shoah Visual History Foundation has collected more than 50,000 videotaped interviews with Holocaust survivors. The Foundation, now run by the University...
