Memorializing the Holocaust Must Go Beyond the Death Camps
For the 7,000 prisoners remaining—more than 60,000 had been forced to undertake a death march in the weeks before Allied ...
‘Resistance: They Fought Back’ On PBS And A Discussion With Producer Paula Aspell And Holocaust Historian Michael Berenbaum
During this week of International Holocaust Remembrance, Resistance: They Fought Back, an important new Holocaust documentary is on PBS. A discussion I led is on YouTube ...
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Vilna DeZayas
Vilna DeZayas, age 84, peacefully went to be with the Lord on Saturday, January 25, 2025. She was a loving mother to Bruno F. DeZayas and Alan DeZayas. Proud grandmother to Bruno F. DeZayas II ...
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Memorializing the Holocaust Must Go Beyond the Death Camps
As part of the “Paper Brigade,” which he formed alongside fellow poet Szmerke Kaczerginski, Sutzkever rescued literary documents from the Jewish community of Vilna, Poland, where he had been ...
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Resistance: They Fought Back
More than 2/3 of the Jews of Vilna were killed in half a year, and that's in 1941, well before there were deportations to the death camps from Warsaw and other cities in Poland. ♪ Man as Abba ...
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‘Resistance: They Fought Back’ a different take on Holocaust
Apsell knew that was definitely not true. She filmed in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Israel, and the U.S., determined to tell the real story. A senior executive producer of ‘Nova’ for 33 years, ...
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Interest in Yiddish a sign of the times
Originally established as a scientific institute in Vilna, Poland in 1925, YIVO was forced to relocate to New York City during the Second World War and evolved there into a dynamic historical ...