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.
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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
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
Click Here to Read: The Secret Photographer Who Captured Four Decades of Life in St Petersburg: Unlike most long-lost family photos, Ivashintsova’s 30,000 images show a unique aesthetic, one that she hid from her loved ones, inviting comparisons to Chicago street photographer Vivian Maier by Elena Goukassian on the HyperAllergic website on May 14, 2018.
Street scene in Tomsk, Russia. June 2008. Photo:Adam Jones. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Click Here to Read: Holocaust Museum’s Exhibit Makes Excuses for Ignoring Genocide: One shudders at the thought of museums one day conjuring up excuses for more recent presidents who likewise turned a blind eye to genocide or other atrocities around the world.
BY Rafael Medoff on the Jerusalem website on May 12, 2018.
Click Here to Read: New Documents Reveal FDR’s Eugenic Project to ‘Resettle’ Jews During World War II: As the Holocaust raged, the American president secretly asked his government to study the possible resettlement of remaining European refugees in Africa and South America. His goal: for Jews to be ‘spread thin all over the world.’ By Steve Usdin on the Tablet website on April 30, 2018.
Click Here to Read: Reexamining FDR’s Response to Kristallnacht Ken Burns and others have called it impressive, but the truth is less inspiring By Rafael Medoff on the Tablet website on November 4, 2014.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
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