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0 Holocaust History

'I'm fragmented, and a surviving remnant': The story of Westerbork prisoner 8331

Terrence Petty in Forward · 20 Apr

Terrence Petty narrates the profound story of Jacob "Jack" Boas, born in Westerbork, a Nazi transit camp in Holland during WWII.

0 Holocaust Communities

Let each of us view ourselves as though we personally had emerged from the Shoah

eJewishPhilanthropy · 24 Apr 2025

The keynote address delivered at the Yom HaShoah commemoration in Paramus, NJ, highlights the personal and collective responsibility to remember the Holocaust through the lens of individual and family experiences.

0 Music Holocaust

Louisville Orchestra remembers its concertmaster with an opera he performed in a Nazi concentration camp

Shira Li Bartov in JTA · 23 Jan 2025

The Louisville Orchestra is commemorating its former concertmaster, Paul Kling, by performing the Holocaust-era opera 'Der Kaiser von Atlantis,' which he played in as a teenager at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

0 Holocaust Art

Hermann Goering’s personal art dealer plundered the world for decades; his victims’ descendants are still seeking justice

Olivia Haynie in Forward · 25 Nov 2024

"Plunderer," a new PBS documentary, delves into the life of Bruno Lohse, an art dealer for Hermann Goering during the Nazi era, who facilitated the looting of countless artworks.

0 Holocaust Philosophy

The Lie of Viktor Frankl

David Mikics in Tablet · 10 Sep 2020

The article critiques the legacy of Viktor Frankl, focusing on his controversial medical experiments on suicidal Jewish patients during the Holocaust and his philosophical approach to surviving suffering, which gained him fame.