By Hillel Kuttler, JTA
• Published January 13, 2012
1 out of 1 Other Media Karl Nurnberger sheltered a Jewish baby from the Nazis and later raised him, and now the son is searching for others aided by his adoptive father in order to get his heroism recognized by Yad Vashem. (Courtesy of Peter Nurnberger)...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published January 11, 2012
St. Louis attorney Michael Wetmore recalls watching his mother Trudy Hochster Wetmore quietly blessing his son in a German train station before the latter's departure to see a friend in Paris. "She turned around and said ‘The last time I was in this...
NEW YORK - In March 1941 - nine months before the attack on Pearl Harbor impelled America to enter the Second World War - one colorful American hero already had joined the battle: Captain America.The famous front cover of "Captain America #1" showed its...
By Cate Marquis, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published June 22, 2011
“Bride Flight” takes us along on the journey of four attractive young people, three women and a man, leaving post-World War II Holland to restart their lives in New Zealand. The film features an appealing cast and lush photography in a romantic tale...
By Cate Marquis, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published June 8, 2011
"Habermann" is a thought-provoking movie about the expulsion of ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia after the end of World War II in 1945. This complex film is a disturbing drama focused on the toxic nature of ethnic hatred. Czech director Juraj Herz...
By Toby Axelrod, JTA, BERLIN
• Published May 18, 2011
The guilty verdict pronounced May 12 against John Demjanjuk in a Munich courtroom was a long time coming.Following a trial that lasted a year and a half-capping more than three decades of legal drama-the 91-year-old former Ohio autoworker is now officially...
By Arthur Gale, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published May 18, 2011
Over 65 years have passed since the end of World War II. Historians continue their quest to further understand the man responsible for the war and its more than 50 million deaths. They want to know when, where, and why Adolf Hitler developed his political,...
BERLIN — A Munich court has found John Demjanjuk guilty of war crimes, and sentenced the 91-year-old former autoworker to five years in prison. Thursday's verdict came after 93 court days, including deeply affecting testimony from Dutch survivors and...
By Tom Tugend, JTA, LOS ANGELES
• Published May 11, 2011
For Ira Feinberg, what he calls the "pinnacle of my life's experiences" took place 63 years ago.Feinberg was a 17-year-old New Yorker when he joined the elite troops of the Palmach force fighting in Israel's War of Independence. "No other experience in...
BY ELAINE K. ALEXANDER, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published April 27, 2011
It is 1944 and on World War II's eastern front in Budapest, Hungary, Allied bombs are falling and the Russians are coming-because Germany is now on the losing side of the war. Two men who will become icons of the Holocaust are negotiating with one another,...
As my sisters, and I were growing up, Auschwitz - which each of our parents had survived - was a phantom presence. Auschwitz breathed our air, sat with us at supper, and shared our slumber.In the earliest years, we were witnesses to our parents' deepest...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 27, 2011
In the predawn hours of Sunday, June 22, 1941 millions of German troops accompanied by thousands of tanks and armored vehicles swarmed over the Soviet frontier and in doing so launched one of the largest invasions in the history of combat. Codenamed Operation...
