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News ‘I was sick to my heart’: Holocaust survivor, 94, returns to the Auschwitz cell block where he spent years of his childhood
No survivor had ever before returned to Cell Block 8
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Film & TV In a heart-wrenching film about life after the Holocaust, the makings of a taboo relationship
Set in Budapest, 'Those Who Remained' focuses on the friendship between a middle-aged man and a teenage girl
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Culture How these Dutch Jewish artists aided the resistance with children’s books
While hiding from the Nazis, a husband and wife published dozens of children's books anonymously. Now, you can see them at a New York book fair
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Forverts in English The loving, complex relationship I had with my mother, a Holocaust survivor
My mother refused to send me to sleepaway camp, no matter how much I wanted it. For her, 'camp' could mean only one thing
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Culture Jewish refugees stranded in Hollywood, and 4 other books you need to know this month
Plus, an author's case for a standing cocktail hour
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Culture Cathleen Schine will convince you to move to Los Angeles
The author talks about her newest book, her writing routine and the importance of a standing cocktail hour
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Fast Forward Holocaust survivor reveals decades-old secret: He nabbed Hitler’s henchman
‘I arrested him,’ 98-year-old says, pointing at top Nazi’s photo on trip to a museum
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Film & TV The heroic WWII rescue story that Netflix’s ‘Transatlantic’ leaves out
The Jewish Labor Committee rescued more than a thousand Jews — so why hasn't anyone heard of them?
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Culture Why saying ‘L’shana Tova’ on Rosh Hashanah may not be the correct phrase
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Culture A Jewish prophet of the 1980s would be horrified to see that we didn’t heed his warnings
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Opinion This is the most disorienting Rosh Hashanah in memory
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Fast Forward Meet Lev Kreitman, who brought down Tel Aviv shooter and survived Nova music festival on Oct. 7
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Oct. 7: One Year Later On the eve of this grim anniversary, what we can — and cannot — control
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Fast Forward Antisemitism hits record high in the U.S.; new report shows most-ever incidents in single year
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Culture He founded the Harlem Globetrotters and is the shortest man in the basketball hall of fame. A new book tells his story.
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Oct. 7: One Year Later One year after Oct. 7, a Yom Kippur ritual of communal mourning takes on fresh meaning
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