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Lily Renée Phillips. (Bundesministerium für Europa, Integration und Äußeres/CC) and one of her characters, Señorita Rio, who fought Nazis. (Lily Renée Collection/via JTA)
March 14, 2021, 11:51 pm
Overlooked Jewish female artist from comics’ golden age escaped real WWII peril
Vienna-born Lily Renee Phillips fled Austria after the 1938 Anschluss, escaped to England on a Kindertransport and reunited with her parents in New York in 1940
By Karen Chernick
Simon Morzé as Franz, and Bruno Ganz as Sigmund Freud in 'The Tobacconist' (Petro Domenigg/ Epo Film/Glory Film)
July 9, 2020, 1:12 am
Nazi-era film features Swiss actor Bruno Ganz in final role, as Sigmund Freud
‘The Tobacconist’ imagines friendship between founder of psychoanalysis and teenage boy in coming-of-age story set against backdrop of 1938 German annexation of Austria
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Portrait of the Duchess of Sutherland in 1904 (John Singer Sargent/Public Domain)
October 23, 2019, 9:25 pm
British duchess’s 1938 ‘crowdfunding’ campaign saved Jewish family from Nazis
After Lady Millicent Hawes met a bookseller in occupied Vienna whose wife’s Jewish ancestry put the family in danger, she appealed to newspaper readers to help fund their escape
By ToI Staff
May 3, 1938: 'Segregation in Kindergarten.' Wilhelm Hesse, father of Eva Hesse — who would go on to be one of the most famous female American artists of the 20th century — kept a diary for his daughters. 'The times have become very serious. We are depressed and despondent, and therefore there is little leisure and inclination to write and take photographs as elaborately as before,' he wrote. (Courtesy of Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin)
June 10, 2019, 9:23 am
Online 1938 Projekt immerses pupils in turning-point year for German Jews
Real personal documents bring readers in direct contact with the struggles, hopes, and even bureaucratic hurdles of Jewish Europeans trying to escape an unforeseeable genocide
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A balcony at Vienna's town hall built in commemoration of a speech made by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler is pictured on January 9, 2015. (Roland Schlager/APA/AFP)
October 18, 2018, 4:09 pm
Activists call for destruction of ‘Hitler balcony’ in Vienna
While welcoming debate over forgotten detail of the town hall’s history, city’s top cultural official says a clearer explanation should be given of its significance
By AFP
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, from left, wait for the start of a commemoration on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the connection to Hitler Germany, the so-called Anschluss, at the Hofburg palace in Vienna, Austria, Monday, March 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
March 15, 2018, 8:03 pm
PM hails Austrian leader’s ‘powerful’ Holocaust speech
Netanyahu thanks Sebastian Kurz for decision to establish Vienna memorial site for 66,000 Austrian Jews killed by the Nazis
By Raphael Ahren
People watch 'Zeituhr 1938', a projection on the facade of the Austrian Chancellery that retraces the dark moments leading to the Nazi takeover by Adolf Hitler in 1938, one day ahead of the 80th anniversary of Austria's annexation ("Anschluss"), on March 11, 2018 in Vienna, Austria. (AFP PHOTO / JOE KLAMAR)
March 12, 2018, 8:44 am
Amid far-right rise, Austria marks 80 years since annexation by Hitler
Country plans to erect memorial for Holocaust victims as it marks ‘day of commemoration’ on anniversary of Nazi invasion
By Sophie MAKRIS
Rabbi Benjamin Papermaster and his eight sons and first grandson in Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1908. (The Jewish Museum of the American West)
October 15, 2017, 4:03 am
Frontier Jews find more ‘Green Acres’ than Goldene Medina in rural Dakota
Like fellow Americans moving West, the first Jews who settled in the Dakota Territory were attracted by the Homestead Act of 1862
By Rich Tenorio
Michael Shinagel, former dean, was the longest-serving person in the position in Harvard's history. Here he is pictured in his office. (Rich Tenorio/Times of Israel)
January 26, 2017, 11:47 am
How an escape from the Nazis colored the career of Harvard’s longest-serving dean
Now retired, Michael Shinagel reflects on his family’s flight from Vienna and how he, a boy who didn’t know English until age 7, earned a PhD in literature
By Rich Tenorio
Ceramicist and 'The Hare With Amber Eyes' author Edmund de Waal (Ben McKee)
November 22, 2016, 4:01 pm
How tiny Japanese sculptures prompted a quest into Jewish roots — and Nazi looting
On emotional first visit to Israel, Edmund de Waal, heir to the mighty Ephrussi banking dynasty wiped out by Nazis, says his bestselling ‘The Hare with Amber Eyes’ is his proactive means of restitution
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Undated photo of the Singer family. Grete is standing third from right (Courtesy)
February 28, 2016, 1:21 pm
In London attic, a Holocaust survivor’s story is rediscovered
A lost manuscript found in Peter Singer’s parental home connects him to a relative once derided, and almost forgotten
By Anne Joseph
Still image from a film from the Ephemeral Films Project. (Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
December 10, 2015, 4:05 am
Ephemeral films of Nazi era kept alive by digitalization
US Holocaust Memorial Museum partners with Austrian institutions to preserve historically important footage originally not meant to last
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A young boy sits on the shoulders of an elderly man at a parade in the center of the Crimean city of Simferopol on March 21, 2014, after Russia's upper house of parliament unanimously voted to ratify the treaty incorporating Crimea into Russian territory. (photo credit: AFP/ Dmitry Serebryakov)
March 21, 2014, 11:56 pm
Crimea after the ‘Anschluss’
An overwhelming 95.5% voted for the union with Putin’s Russia. The context was staggeringly similar to another poll, held in Austria on April 10, 1938
By Anya Zhuravel Segal
Once home to Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Belvedere Palace now stands as a relic of the vanquished empire. (Matt Lebovic)
August 19, 2013, 4:24 am
A 100-year anniversary Vienna isn’t celebrating
In 1913 — its final moment as a world capital — the Austrian city was home to Hitler, Freud and an endangered mix of cultures
By Matt Lebovic
Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner, left, Resistance fighter Katharina Sasso and Chancellor Werner Faymann attend a March 12, 2013 unveiling of a plaque honoring Austrians killed by the Nazis. (Hans Punz/AP)
March 12, 2013, 3:18 pm
Austria marks annexation by Germany 75 years ago
Official expressions of remorse follow worrying new survey showing how Nazis are remembered
By George Jahn
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