Click Here to Read: Rescuing Yiddish History: Rokhl’s Golden City: How the archives of a legendary newspaper were saved from the garbage By Rokhl Kafrissen on the Tablet website on May 8, 2019.
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Holocaust-Era Cattle Car Comes to Manhattan, Bringing Uneasy Questions
The return of Avraham Sutzkever
Click Here to Read: The return of Avraham Sutzkever: The ‘greatest Yiddish poet who ever lived’ was a Holocaust hero who, when he came to Israel, was largely ignored by Asher Weill on the Times of Israel website on May 6, 2019.
Abraham Sutzkever (1913-2011) and Shmerke Kaczerginski (1908-1954). Taken in the 1930s. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Dubnow And The YIVO-Einstein Connection
Yom HaShoah: Holocaust Rememberance Day
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Photo: Stroop Report. Photographer Unknown. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
“This was the end. This was the sum total of hundreds of generations of building, of Torah, of piety, of freethinking, of Zionism, of Bundism, of struggles and of battles, of the hopes of an entire people – this empty desert I looked around me at what had been the Jews of Warsaw. I felt one hope, and I feel it now. May this sea of emptiness bubble and boil, may it cry out eternal condemnation of the murderers and pilagers, may it be forever the shame of the civilized world which saw and heard and chose to remain silent”
B Goldstein (2005). Five Years in the Warsaw Ghetto: the stars bear witness
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Click here to Read: Richards, A (2012). Witnessing the Death of Yiddish Language and Culture. Holes in the Doorposts in The Power of Witnessing edited by N Goodman and M Meyers. Routledge New York
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Click Here to Read: The Holocaust’s long reach: Trauma is passed on to survivors’ children by Ian Brown in The Globe and Mail on April 3, 2015
Liberation Heroes: The Last Eyewitnesses
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LIBERATION HEROES: THE LAST EYEWITNESSES Wednesday, May 1: 7pm ET/ 6pm CT/ 4pm PT and again at 11pmPT on DISCOVERY
From Deadline: Discovery Channel will air the documentary Liberation Heroes: The Last Eyewitnesses, on Wednesday, May 1 at 7 PM ET, to coincide with the nation’s Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The film draws on a collection of 55,000 testimonies of survivors and Continue reading Liberation Heroes: The Last Eyewitnesses
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