Caroline Stoessinger
By Caroline Stoessinger
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Community Remembering Elie Wiesel on his 5th Yahrzeit
Elie Wiesel made a commandment of memory. Whenever my students ask why they should study history, I always respond with a quote from Elie, who lived the answer: “Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.” Elie constantly reminded us of the power of memory. “If…
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Israel News For Alice Herz-Sommer, Oldest Holocaust Survivor, Music Was a Religion
At 110 years old, Alice Herz-Sommer died too soon. As the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor, Herz-Sommer, a noted musician, was limited in recent years in her daily existence. She lived alone in London in a tiny cocoon-like efficiency apartment. But she revered life and mused on its mystery and majesty. Where others saw a tree…
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