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Matt Lebovic
Some of the 250 Armenians who took up arms against Turkish forced on Musa Dagh in 1915 (public domain)
April 26, 2021, 3:22 am
How Armenia’s 1915 ‘Musa Dagh’ fighters inspired Jews to resist Nazi genocide
Passed around Jewish ghettos across eastern Europe, author Franz Werfel’s fact-based ‘The Forty Days of Musa Dagh’ novel foreshadowed the Holocaust and galvanized resistance
By Matt Lebovic
Jews marched out of the ghetto during Warsaw Ghetto Revolt in April and May, 1943 (public domain)
April 19, 2021, 3:42 pm
The Warsaw Ghetto Revolt was initially dubbed ‘fake news’ by some US Jews
New book ‘The Jewish Heroes of Warsaw’ traces the immediate aftermath of Holocaust’s most famous revolt, including the ‘gendering’ of resistance and politicization of its narrative
By Matt Lebovic
Screenshot from 'Muranów' by director Chen Shelach (courtesy)
April 7, 2021, 5:30 pm
Jewish ghosts haunting today’s Warsaw channeled by Israeli director in new film
Polish capital’s Muranów district was once Europe’s epicenter of Jewish life, and residents have plenty of spooky stories to prove it in a documentary screening April 7
By Matt Lebovic
Grammy-winning performer Joanie Leeds in New York City (courtesy)
April 1, 2021, 4:16 am
Meet Joanie Leeds, kids’ bday star turned Grammy-winning, girl-power sensation
With roots in Jewish music and song-leading, performer Joanie Leeds takes home a 2020 gilded gramophone for her acclaimed female empowerment album, ‘All the Ladies’
By Matt Lebovic
Filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa (courtesy)
March 28, 2021, 9:33 am
Using rare archival films, Ukrainian director forces viewers to face Babyn Yar
Filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa grew up in ignorance close to site of Holocaust massacre. Now he’s creating 24 short films about the history — and its erasure — at the notorious ravine
By Matt Lebovic
Berta Berkovich 'Betka' Kohút and her family in 1942, before she was deported to Auschwitz. Berta is standing, second from right (courtesy: Tom Areton)
March 27, 2021, 12:57 pm
Sewing for survival: The last of Auschwitz’s forgotten ‘dressmakers’ dies
Final member of death camp’s ‘sewing circle’ dies of COVID-related complications; high-profile book based on women’s experiences to be published in September
By Matt Lebovic
Editorial cartoon by Theodore Geisel for PM daily newspaper, depicting Hitler and French collaborator Laval, who was executed after the war (public domain)
March 9, 2021, 10:00 pm
During WWII, Dr. Seuss tried to slay anti-Semitism, but also promoted racism
With late author’s estate declining to republish six of Theodore Geisel’s books, we present a look at Dr. Seuss’s foundational years as US Air Force propogandist extraordinaire
By Matt Lebovic
Jewish Cemetery in Karczew, Poland, 2017 (courtesy: Christian Herrmann/vanishedworld.blog)
March 5, 2021, 11:04 am
‘Annihilation’ of Poland’s Jewish cemeteries documented in provocative book
Krzysztof Bielawski publishes 1st ‘historical synthesis’ of Poland’s destroyed Jewish graveyards, emphasizing role of government-led campaigns and new grassroots efforts to rebuild
By Matt Lebovic
Atlanta-based historian Deborah Lipstadt in Jerusalem, July 2019 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
March 1, 2021, 4:13 pm
Top Holocaust scholar Lipstadt: CPAC Nazi-symbol stage was ‘a very big oops’
Historian also discusses latest outbreak of anti-Semitism in Congress and how she is helping bring white supremacists to justice in Charlottesville, Virginia
By Matt Lebovic
Purim with Holocaust survivors at the Landsberg DP camp in Germany, with a mock-tombstone for Haman and Hitler (Yad Vashem)
February 27, 2021, 11:30 pm
In post-WWII Nuremberg and New York, Purim’s future once hung in the balance
While American Jews debated the meaning of the holiday after the Holocaust, Hitler’s top ‘Jew-baiter’ — Nazi publisher Julius Streicher — invoked Purim from the Nuremberg gallows
By Matt Lebovic
In Amsterdam's Jodenbuurt, Jewish men are rounded up and arrested by German soldiers in February 1941. (Public domain)
February 20, 2021, 2:02 pm
3-day Dutch strike against Nazis finds new resonance through Black Lives Matter
Eighty years ago, more than 200,000 Dutch workers participated in the February Strike to protest German occupier’s first mass deportation of Jewish citizens
By Matt Lebovic
Professor Wendy Lower and Andrej Umansky conduct a 'Yahad-In Unum' field investigation in Ukraine, 2016 (courtesy)
February 18, 2021, 3:27 am
‘The Ravine’ unpacks rare WWII photo to illuminate massacre of Miropol Jews
In historian Wendy Lower’s new book, the genocide’s early ‘Holocaust by bullets’ is explained through a meticulous dissection of a Ukrainian slaughter photo from October 13, 1941
By Matt Lebovic
'Crisis' in Levittown, Pennsylvania, when the Black Meyers family moved to town, August 1957 (public domain)
February 16, 2021, 11:34 pm
How America’s Jewish ‘king of the suburbs’ kept Blacks out of suburbia
70 years ago, William Levitt completed his first namesake suburb east of New York City. Veterans were encouraged to buy houses on the cheap – unless they were Black
By Matt Lebovic
Dutch National Archives (courtesy)
February 15, 2021, 2:54 am
Poland’s ‘legislation’ of Holocaust history vs. Netherlands’ open-access archive
As Holocaust history goes on trial in Poland, files on 300,000 Nazi ‘collaborators’ in the Netherlands have already been picked apart — and publicized — for two decades
By Matt Lebovic
Betty Grebenshikoff (left) and Ana Maria Wahrenberg reunite on Zoom after 82 years of not knowing what happened to each other after Kristallnacht in Nazi Germany, November 2020 (courtesy: USC Shoah Foundation)
February 14, 2021, 3:58 pm
‘Amazing detective work’ reunites best friends thought murdered in the Holocaust
82 years after fleeing Nazi Germany with their families, two childhood friends are brought together by USC Shoah Foundation researcher who ‘linked’ their testimony
By Matt Lebovic
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