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Culture Diary of Girl’s Time in Concentration Camps Invites Comparisons to Anne Frank
● Helga’s Diary: A Young Girl’s Account of Life in a Concentration Camp By Helga Weiss, translated by Neil Bermel W.W. Norton, 240 pages, $24.95 Seven decades after the Holocaust, survivor stories are still trickling out, adding nuance to a familiar and gruesome narrative. It is sometimes hard for these latecomers to get the attention…
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Breaking News Hungary Leader Accepts Nation’s Responsibility for Role in Holocaust
A Hungarian lawmaker called the Holocaust “part of Hungarian history,” during ceremonies marking the country’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. “The Holocaust is part of the Hungarian history,” said Zoltán Pokorni, from the ruling right of center party Fidesz, during a ceremony Tuesday at the memorial site Shoes on the Danube Promenade in Budapest. “Those who were…
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Breaking News Auschwitz Center Hopes to Restore Home of Last Jew in Oswiecim
The Auschwitz Jewish Center launched a fundraising campaign to rescue the house of Oswiecim’s last Jewish resident. The center, in the Polish town where the Auschwitz concentration camp was built, plans to transform the home of Szymon Kluger into a cafe that also will serve as a meeting place for local residents and visitors. As…
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Breaking News 92-Year-Old Auschwitz Survivor Cited in Aussie
A 92-year-old Auschwitz survivor was among more than a dozen Jews to be honored on Australia Day. Eddie Jaku, a guide at the Sydney Jewish Museum since 1992, received a Medal of the Order of Australia in Saturday’s awards that featured 425 men and 146 women. Jaku travels frequently to the country’s capital of Canberra…
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Culture Finding Tale of Redemption at Auschwitz
● The Thief of Auschwitz By Jon Clinch CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 276 pages, $16 ‘The Thief of Auschwitz” stole my sleep. Jon Clinch’s latest novel, which he has chosen to self-publish, is a page-turner with style. It’s a simpler, quicker read than “Finn,” his impressive first novel, which brilliantly imagined the backstory of Huckleberry…
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Breaking News Record 1.43M Visitors at Auschwitz
The Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp memorial and museum attracted a record number of visitors in 2012. There were 1.43 million visitors to the grounds of the former Nazi camp last year – the most in the museum’s 65-year history, the museum said on its website. More than 1 million people have visited the memorial and museum…
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Life Hanukkah Miracles
I’m not even certain of the year, but it was sometime after the tattoo and before the death march. Aron Lieb was in his early twenties, but he felt elderly. He was working in a coal mine, forced by the Nazis to supply fuel for their war effort. Every night after he emerged from the…
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Breaking News Anniversary of Jews’ Deportation Remembered in Oslo
The Oslo Jewish Museum will open an exhibition on the Holocaust in Norway exactly 70 years after hundreds of Norwegian Jews were shipped to Auschwitz. The museum will open the exhibition on Nov. 26 at exactly 2:55 p.m., the time of departure 70 years ago of the passenger ship Luna, which carried 552 Jews destined…
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