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A Yad Vashem exhibit on diplomats in Europe who saved Jewish lives during the Holocaust is on display through Feb. 19 at the NJ Transit station in Secaucus. Photos by Johanna Ginsberg
February 12, 2020, 11:28 am
‘Beyond Duty’
Heroism of diplomats during the Shoah on display at Yad Vashem exhibit in Secaucus
By Johanna R Ginsberg
Standing behind Cantor David Wisnia in Auschwitz-Birkenau’s “sauna” building are his son Rabbi Eric Wisnia and family, wife Judith and children Sara and Avi. As a prisoner, David worked in the delousing facility; today it is an exhibit hall at the Auschwitz Museum. Photos Courtesy Avi Wisnia
February 10, 2020, 11:41 am
Cantor, Auschwitz survivor, ‘affirms life’ at liberation ceremony
David Wisnia says his family is ‘proof Hitler did not succeed’
By Michele Alperin
Andrew Silow-Carroll/JW
February 3, 2020, 12:26 pm
I thought I understood the Shoah. A visit to Auschwitz changed that
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Shoah survivors at the official ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz were given scarfs reminiscent of their prison uniforms. Sean Gallup/Getty Images
January 29, 2020, 11:34 am
World leaders honor survivors beneath the gates of Auschwitz
Ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp caps an emotional ‘reunion’ for some of the last eyewitnesses
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
David Friedmann’s “Death March from Camp Gleiwitz I to Camp Blechhammer,” 1947. Oil on canvas. Copyright @1989 Miriam Friedman Morris.
January 22, 2020, 12:06 pm
Pew survey suggests Shoah becoming history for most Americans
But Holocaust education, museums, may stem the rise of anti-Semitism
By Jed Weisberger and Stewart Ain
Holocaust expert Deborah Dwork, visiting scholar at Rutgers University’s Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, said, “The past can offer us a compass to guide us to where we want to go as a society.”
September 16, 2019, 11:32 am
Holocaust scholar uses Shoah to shed light on plight of modern refugees
By Debra Rubin
Members of the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom in the annex of the Dar Assalam Mosque in Berlin, which hosted the group for dinner, prayers, and interfaith dialogue. Photo courtesy Heba Macksoud
July 24, 2019, 11:51 am
Muslim and Jewish women tour Shoah sites in Poland, Berlin
Vow to ‘change the future’ by speaking out against hate
By Debra Rubin
Eva.stories, based on the diary of Eva Heyman, a real 13-year-old Jewish girl from Hungary who was deported to, and killed in, Auschwitz in 1944, asks, what would the Shoah have looked like through Instagram? Screenshot/Instagram
May 22, 2019, 10:41 am
Eva.stories: Believe the hype, ignore the indignation
Instagram Holocaust project informs next generation about the Shoah
By Gabe Kahn
Eva Vogel, left, and Susan Stein of Morristown, both participants in the Drew University writing workshop, at a Holocaust symposium in April held at the College of Saint Elizabeth. Photo by Johanna Ginsberg
May 1, 2019, 12:42 pm
The Shoah’s impact on the next generation
Rising 2G community considers their own experiences to better understand their survivor parents
By Johanna R Ginsberg
As a child in Germany, Erwin Ganz saw his house ransacked by Hitler Youth during Kristallnacht. Photos courtesy David Schwartz
May 1, 2019, 12:31 pm
Synagogue produces filmed chronicle of Shoah survivors
Students interview area residents who lived through Nazi brutality
By Jed Weisberger
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