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Searching for his mother, photojournalist Eric Schwab exposed horrors of Nazi camps

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 04:39:48 +0000

The Jewish former fashion photographer became a war correspondent after Paris was liberated, documenting the depravity of the Holocaust while on his deeply personal quest

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Last Terezin survivors memorialized by US photographer in decade-long project

Mon, 06 May 2024 00:48:18 +0000

Dennis Darling's recently published large-format book includes black-and-white portraits and moving testimonies of Jews who were children and teens in Nazi ghetto near Prague

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Czech toothpaste found near interim refuge of Holocaust survivor orphans in England

Sun, 16 Apr 2023 05:24:31 +0000

'Windermere Children' brought from Prague in 1945 at request of philanthropist Leonard Montefiore, briefly stayed at Lake District village before moving to hostels, permanent homes

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At concentration camp once used for Nazi propaganda, European Jews fight ‘fake news’

Fri, 27 Jan 2023 04:45:02 +0000

Ahead of the January 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day, an EJA delegation gathers at Theresienstadt to honor the victims and stop the spread of antisemitic misinformation

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Podcast: Secret Holocaust poems set to haunting music by survivor’s granddaughter

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 08:08:38 +0000

Czech-born musician Lenka Lichtenberg speaks about her new album, 'Thieves of Dreams,' based on poetry written in Theresienstadt and hidden in Prague. NEW: Full transcript included

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Mass held outside Auschwitz for Jewish convert killed there 80 years ago

Tue, 09 Aug 2022 20:54:19 +0000

Marking anniversary of Edith Stein's murder at Nazi death camp, Vatican's Michael Czerny, seen as close to pope, notes his own shared Jewish heritage with sainted martyr

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UK family roots TV show reassures Holocaust survivor that his father was not a Nazi

Sun, 22 May 2022 12:44:31 +0000

Orphaned British survivor of Theresienstadt, 79, had been worried that was the only reason he didn't die; BBC show also finds cousins for man who never knew he had any relatives

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A musician’s project sheds new light on artistic life in Terezín concentration camp

Tue, 25 Jan 2022 01:37:40 +0000

Trying to pass off the brutal camp as a 'spa' for propaganda, the Nazis inadvertently set the stage for creativity by bringing many of the top Jewish artists together in one place

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Tree that survived the Holocaust gains new life in New York City

Sat, 04 Dec 2021 02:57:15 +0000

City will nurture descendant of plant smuggled into Theresienstadt concentration camp to celebrate Tu Bishvat in 1943

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Sexually explicit memoir of women’s abuse in Nazi camps finally sees light

Sat, 10 Oct 2020 06:24:24 +0000

Second-generation trauma expert Helen Epstein publishes late mother Franci Rabinek Epstein's manuscript, initially rejected in mid-1970s for being ahead of its time

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With clues from mysterious box, daughter solves puzzle of father’s WWII survival

Sun, 09 Feb 2020 23:37:39 +0000

In memoir 'When Time Stopped,' Ariana Neumann describes how investigating her father's double life as a chemist for the Nazis helped her discover his identity -- and her heritage

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74 years since liberation, a visit to Theresienstadt finds an eerie ghost town

Mon, 05 Aug 2019 20:51:52 +0000

Unique in the Nazi empire, Theresienstadt was both a way-station to Auschwitz for Jews and a well-planned show camp to deceive diplomats about the Holocaust

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Theresienstadt Ghetto currency donated to National Library of Israel

Sun, 28 Apr 2019 20:52:46 +0000

Six bills feature a Star of David and a sketch of Moses holding the Ten Commandments; Jews were forced to exchange regular money upon entering camps or ghettos during Holocaust

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Dreams of Theresienstadt children on display in drawings exhibit

Sat, 26 Jan 2019 15:55:47 +0000

Artwork at Prague's Jewish Museum was saved by Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, who taught secret art classes at Nazi camp and hid the drawings before she was sent to a death camp

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She performed opera at a concentration camp. 70 years later, I got to meet her

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 01:44:14 +0000

The Nazi guards paraded Ela and the other children to perform 'Brundibar' before the Red Cross for propaganda purposes

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