Click Here to Read: Nazis Separated Me From My Parents as a Child. The Trauma Lasts a Lifetime By Yoka Verdoner on the Guardian website on June 18, 2016.
Category: History
The World’s Oldest Holocaust Museum
Click Here to Read: You’ve probably never heard of the worlds oldest Holocaust museum: Founded in 1933, London’s Wiener Library actively collected material in real time throughout WWII, later playing a key role in the Nuremberg, Eichmann and Irving trials By Robert Philpot in the Times of Israel on June 3, 2018.
At the Wiener Library edit-a-thon 20 November 2016. Photograph by Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent. (www.clemrutter.net). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Italy Seeks to Remember Sheltering Holocaust Survivorsand Aliyah Bet
Click Here to Read: Italy Seeks to Remember Sheltering Holocaust Survivors and Aliyah Bet: As Italy celebrates the birth of the Italian Republic in 1946, its political left finds a use in reviving the history of ordinary Italians who helped WWII refugees make their way to Palestine By Rosie Whitehouse on the Tablet Web Site on May 31, 2018.
A Jewish Brigade Soldier & Nurses of the Jewish Agency Taking Care of Jewish Refugee Children in Florence. This is available from National Photo Collection of Israel, Photography dept. Goverment Press Office (link), under the digital ID D817-007. Public Domain Via Wikimedia Commons.
Art and the Ascent of the Third Reich
Click Here to Read: Art and the Ascent of the Third Reich: By returning to the details of life embedded in bodies, objects, and the earth, the artists featured in Before the Fall at Neue Galerie conveyed the hope that the world might reassemble itself by Natalie Haddad on the HyperAllergic website on May 18, 2018.
Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-729-0001-23 / Meister / CC-BY-SA 3.0. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Scientists say Hitler died in WWII. Tell that to ‘Adolf Schüttelmayor’ and the Nazi moon base
It’s All Still Very Present’
Click Here to Read: It’s All Still Very Present’: The miniseries “Our Mothers, Our Fathers” has sparked widespread discussion in Germany about memories of WWII, both first-hand and inherited. In a SPIEGEL interview, war survivor and psychoanalyst Hartmut Radebold talks about guilt, war trauma and his own fraught memories of growing up in the Third Reich on the Spiegel Online website on March 28, 2013.
WWII Europe: Germany: Concentration Camps: “Piles of dead prisoners” Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Survival; or, How My Family Beat the Odds in 1940
Click Here to Read: Survival; or, How My Family Beat the Odds in 1940: It wasn’t easy for an entire Jewish family to escape Eastern Europe in the mid-20th century. Ruth Wisse’s did by Ruth Wisse on the Mosaic website on May 17, 2018.
Administrative map of Romania in May 1942 by Andrein. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons