In the 1930s and 1940s, during the Holocaust, a large number of Jews fled from Germany and other Nazi-controlled countries in Europe, with more than 30,000 landing in China. While some of them went on to other countries, Shanghai and other Chinese cities were still sheltering about 25,...
The exhibit is from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and curated by Daniel Greene with the collaboration of the American Library Association. It will be on display until Feb. 22 during business hours. EVENTS & ENTERTAINMENT Filmmaker Fred Kudjo Kuwornu presents new documentary 'We ...
Why These Movies Are Worth Going Back to the 80's: Meryl Streep delivers one of her most iconic performances as a Holocaust survivor struggling with tragic memories and choices made during World War II. Sophie's Choice expertly combines heartrending emotion and powerful storytelling, making i...
Courage to Care, a travelling exhibition, aims to inform and educate Australians of the dangers of prejudice and discrimination. It educates visitors, in particular students, towards an understanding of the roles of victim, perpetrator and bystander by exposing them to survivors of the Holocaust and...
into the largest and the bloodiest war in world history, responsible for the deaths of an estimated 40 to 70 million people, many of whom were civilians. World War II included the attempted genocide of the Jewish people during the Holocaust and the first use of an atomic weapon during a ...
and music to tell the story of a collection of stringed instruments that survived the Holocaust, and those whose lives the instruments touched. The violins, played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust, were meticulously restored by Amnon Weinstein as he received them from all around the world...
Courage to Care, a travelling exhibition, aims to inform and educate Australians of the dangers of prejudice and discrimination. It educates visitors, in particular students, towards an understanding of the roles of victim, perpetrator and bystander by exposing them to survivors of the Holocaust and...
The Holocaust (Ha-shoah in Hebrew) took place between 1933 and 1945 and is associated with the persecution and murder of over 6,000,000 Jews and other people, including gays and Roma people. During the Holocaust, two thirds of all Jews in Europe were killed and one third of the world’...
Eleven million humans lost their lives during the holocaust, but there were some individuals that were lucky enough to survive through the living Hell of the reign of Hitler. It was a gruesome transition for many, and it really changed the mindset of any remaining survivors. In the book, “...
were worse today than during the Holocaust: “Even in Hitler’s Germany … you could cross the Alps to Switzerland. You could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did,” whereas “the mechanisms are being put in place that will make it so none of us can run and none of us can hide.”...