Law Serving Injustice: September 15, 1935
Today, September 15, Jews around the world are observing the second day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and […]
Identity Stolen and Regained
Reflections on The Woman in Gold
A Troubling Portrait: German Women and the Third Reich
A few weeks ago I wrote about how Bettina Stangneth\’s book Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer had transformed our understanding of the perpetrator Adolf Eichmann. So too has Wendy Lower\’s book Hitler\’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields expanded our knowledge of German women in the Third Reich, offering a much more nuanced, complex, and indeed, troubling portrait of the young German women who chose to go to \”the wild east.\”
Kristallnacht, November 9
10, 1938: A Night of Silence and Fear
Two Tears in the Ocean: Testimonies of Suffering and the Miraculous
Next Tuesday, October 28, at 4 p.m. in the Bush Conference Center, Beckman Hall, room 404, scholar and author Dr.
Legal Injustice: The Lawyers Without Rights Exhibit
This evening a traveling exhibit “Lawyers Without Rights: Jewish Lawyers in Germany Under the Third Reich,” created by the German
Yom Kippur in Auschwitz: 70 Years Ago
Seventy years ago, on Yom Kippur, September 27, 1944, the Jews of Auschwitz debated whether or not to fast. They were, after all, starving, each of them near death. Among the prisoners was a teenager just three days shy of his 16th birthday.
Sobibór: Unearthing Evidence and Honoring Memory
Last week, media around the world reported on the unearthing of the foundations of the Sobibór gas chambers. The discovery is part of an ongoing archaeological project conducted by Yad Vashem\’s International Institute for Holocaust Research, the German-Polish Foundation and the Majdanek State Museum.
Eichmann Unmasked
Bettina Stangneth’s Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer From time to time, I want to
"If something isn't blatantly impossible, then there must be a way of doing it." Nicky Winton.
“If something isn’t blatantly impossible, then there must be a way of doing it.” Nicky Winton. What a great message
More than Broken Glass
-Kristallnacht 75 Years Later