WASHINGTON -- Ari Babaknia doesn’t expect that Iran’s president will ever read his four-volume series of Holocaust books written in the Farsi language. But the author says he is confident that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad knows the books exist. “I’ve done...
As soon as I entered I was met by the dog. Then we sat down in the small living room and had tea. I can’t remember the dog’s name, but it was a large shepherd with huge expressive eyes. He sat by us every moment, like an esteemed visitor from the...
Jean Cavender, Director of the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center, will be installed as President of JProStl at the annual JProStl “end of year” event on May 22. The program, Let the Good Times Roll, is designed to promote networking between professionals...
By Eetta Prince-Gibson, JTA
• Published April 25, 2012
JERUSALEM—The two seventh-grade girls walk together down the hall, their heads touching as they talk excitedly. Dana’s dark auburn hair is pulled back in a ponytail. Waard’s head is covered by a hijab, the traditional Arab headscarf, held with a...
The St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center broke its daily visitor attendance record on Thursday, April 12, when 400 students on seven scheduled tours went through the museum. The students were from middle and high schools, private and religious...
By Elaine K. Alexander, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 24, 2012
“I have lost the desire for life, the desire for work, the desire to love, the desire to do anything that the mind of a boy can love,” wrote Pavel Weiner in the last diary entry he made at Theresienstadt, the Nazi concentration camp in Terezin, Czechoslovakia....
NEW YORK—Lithuania’s 800-year-old connection to its Jewish population broke down in 1941, when the Nazis invaded the country and murdered nearly all of its 200,000 Jews—often with the complicity of local Lithuanians. This month, 70 years on, Lithuania...
By Ruth Ellen Gruber, JTA
• Published April 20, 2012
NIS, Serbia—In some alternate universe, it might be a Jewish dream: a Jewish cemetery with a restaurant and discount department store on its doorstep. But in this old Serbian town about 125 miles south of the capital of Belgrade, it’s more like a...
NEW YORK—Bernhard Storch grew up in a Jewish family in Silesia, near Poland’s border with Germany. Like many Polish Jews, he moved quickly from town to town as the Nazis advanced in 1939, trying to avoid capture. Before long he was caught and sent...
TRSICE, Czech Republic -- Nearly 70 years after a Czech Jewish family sought refuge from the Nazis by retreating into a nearby forest and relying on non-Jewish locals for help, an American high school teacher has helped erect a permanent monument to their...
By Lois Caplan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 4, 2012
THE PULITZER Foundation for the arts is a major jewel in our cultural crown. On Thursday (April 5) in celebration of its 10th anniversary, the public is invited to a preview, nearly 50 works from the art collection of Emily and Joseph Pulitzer, including...
By Edmon J. Rodman, JTA
• Published March 21, 2012
LOS ANGELES -- Is the image of Anne Frank heading in the same commercial direction as Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”? Munch’s Expressionist painting, once an iconic representation of horror, for years has been available as a party inflatable, an...
