Memorializing the Holocaust Needs to Go Beyond Auschwitz
That creates risks: the Holocaust didn’t begin with mass murder. The dehumanization of Jews progressed gradually from public exclusion to eventual internment to finally extermination. Millions of ...
‘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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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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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 ...
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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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‘Saints and Liars’ Review: Missions of Relief
Moses Beckelman arrived in Vilna in October 1939 to begin his work ... 15,000 Jews who had fled to the city from Nazi-occupied Poland. The Lithuanian Red Cross had declined to provide aid, Ms ...