Tag: Concentration Camp

David Koker, a young poet and translator, arrived with his family at Kamp Vught, a Dutch concentration camp, in 1943 during WWII.
"The Tattooist of Auschwitz" is a TV series based on the real-life Holocaust love story of Lali Sokolov and Gita Furman, Jewish prisoners who met, fell in love, and survived Auschwitz before moving to Australia.
In 1943, during their time in Terezin concentration camp, Peter Kien and Viktor Ullmann created the symbolic opera "The Emperor of Atlantis" as a reflection on war, dictatorships, and the significance of life and death.
Lt. Robert Rosenthal, a heroic pilot in Apple TV+'s Masters of the Air, is depicted as a Jewish soldier experiencing challenges during World War II, including surviving being shot down.
The final episode of the Apple TV+ series "Masters of the Air" features a poignant Jewish scene where Lieutenant Colonel Rosie Rosenthal, a Jewish American hero, encounters the horrors of the Holocaust firsthand in a concentration camp in Poland.
"The Zone of Interest" is praised as a significant film about the Holocaust for its unique approach.
The TV adaptation of the best-selling book "The Tattooist of Auschwitz" is coming to Peacock in the spring.
The article reflects on the 25th anniversary of the film "Life is Beautiful" and its use of Holocaust humor.
The German government has initiated prosecution against a 98-year-old man alleged to have worked as a guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.
"How Saba Kept Singing," a documentary premiering on PBS, tells the story of David Saba Wisnia, a Polish Jewish musical prodigy who was able to survive the Holocaust due to his singing talents.
A recent survey conducted for the American Jewish Committee revealed that almost half of Americans don't know how many Jews perished in the Holocaust, with only 53% correctly identifying the figure of 6 million Jewish victims.
This article tells the story of Bruno Kaiser, a 92-year-old man from California, who is about to give away his beloved accordion.
The author reflects on her experience visiting Auschwitz and the challenges of confronting the evil of the Holocaust.
This Passover will be challenging for many as they gather without extended family and friends, missing the communal aspects like shul conversations and Yizkor.
The author reflects on their family's experiences during the Holocaust, particularly at the Majdanek concentration camp where their grandparents were imprisoned.
"None Shall Escape" is a groundbreaking but largely forgotten Hollywood film from 1943 that envisioned the Holocaust before it was widely known.
In episode 51 of "Get Your (Scape)goat," the podcast features Deena Gottlieb, a first-year reform rabbinical student, discussing her experiences in Israel and her path to becoming a reform rabbi.
Bernadette O'Connell recently donated photographs taken by her grandfather, Pinckney Glasgow McElwee, during the liberation of Dachau in 1945 to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Seventy years after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, descendants of survivors gathered to share their memories and emphasize the importance of Holocaust remembrance.
Israeli historian Otto Dov Kulka's book "Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death," based on his experience as a child in Auschwitz, is praised for its poetic and reflective tone.
Nasya Kamrat, filmmaker and granddaughter of Holocaust survivor Irving Kamrat, is working on an animated documentary project called "Unspeakable," aiming to bring survivors' stories to life through animation based on her grandfather's art.