Posts Tagged: Holocaust survivor
Thriving Nazi Memorabilia Auction Business Highlights ‘Perversity’ of Collectors, ADL’s Foxman Says
The market for Nazi memorabilia is estimated to generate hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Signs of a global surge of interest abound; Ebay now has...
My Promise to the ‘Lion of Judah’
In August of last year I was invited to the premiere of a Holocaust documentary at the Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village entitled 'Lion of...
YU Conference: Medical Dilemmas Born out of the Holocaust
Yair Saperstein, first year student at Einstein School of Medicine, Yeshiva University 2012 valedictorian, and a nominee for The Jewish Week's "36 under 36" last...
‘Comix 101’: Pulitzer Prize-Winning ‘Maus’ Author Advocates for his Medium
More than 25 years after it was first published, the graphic novel Maus continues to revolutionize both comics and representations of the Holocaust—and its Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Thoughts About the Upcoming Election From a Holocaust Survivor
Over the past few months I have read many articles and listened to many speeches by many prominent and educated people concerning the upcoming Presidential...
Holocaust Survivor Fights to Track Down Man Who Robbed Her
While Bertha Presz was shopping at Brach's Glatt Kosher Meat Market in Queens, a man went into her cart and stole her purse. Now, the...
Former Chief Rabbi Visits Grave of His Holocaust Rescuer
Former Israeli Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau visited the grave of his Holocaust savior on Aug. 10 in Rostov, Russia, the Lubavitch News Service reported. Feodore...
Offensive Wine Bottles With Hitler Image Surface In Italy
American lawyer Michael Hirsch was flabbergasted when he discovered a local supermarket stocking wine bottles portraying images of Adolf Hitler on the labels, while visiting northern...
Respectable Memoir, Some Shrewd Manipulation by an East European Government “• or Both?
Review of We Are Here. Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust. By Ellen Cassedy. University of Nebraska Press, 273 pp. Paperback $19.95. What do you do...
A Gradual Commitment to Saving Lives “In Darkness”
Although films about the Holocaust have long been well-established fare in popular culture (as early as 1946, Orson Welles' thriller, The Stranger, was...
Reflections of a Shoah Interviewer
In The summer of 1994 I accepted The Shoah Foundation's invitation to join the crew of interviewers for a week of work at a Catskill...
Kudos to ADL’s Foxman for Speaking Up
For some months I have been highly critical of the failure of the American Jewish establishment leadership to speak out against repeated hostile...
