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After the Girls Club: How Teenaged Holocaust Survivors Built New Lives in America (review) In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: html_title /html_title Reviewed by Beth B. Cohen (bio) After the Girls Club: Ho... BB Cohen,bio - 《American Jewish History》 ...
The Miami area is home to the largest population of Jewish escapee’s from or survivors of the Holocaust outside of New York, thought to be around 30,000 people. Many arrived in the state when rooming-houses still displayed signs in the window “No Dogs and No Jews”. One pre-war vaca...
In March 2007, Congressman Robert Wexler introduced the Holocaust Insurance Reparation Act. Despite America’s war effort in WW II and many 10s of thousands of lives expended to halt the Axis powers, Congressman Wexler thinks America should pay Holocaust survivors 800 billion dollars. I seriously ...
Although as a society we may wish for these events to be kept forever as a reminder to the future, things like the Yolocaust project, in which Shahak Shapira documented tourists being disrespectful at Eisenman’s Holocaust memorial, remind us that architecture cannot force people to reflect, ...
Also, if you can, spend time with older family members and community elders. Learn from survivors of the Holocaust as well as other people's personal stories about living through times of heightened antisemitism. This can provide valuable lessons and insights. ...
Josh’s grandparents, Rae and Joseph, were Holocaust survivors; they met in Belarus, in a colony of Jews who had escaped Nazi roundups and were living in hiding. The couple made it to the United States in 1949, and Joseph became a successful carpenter. Charlie joined him in the early ’...
When asked how she had the strength to maintain her religious beliefs when so many survivors turned away from God, Eva explained, “The reason my faith is strong is because I believed that it is because of God that I survived. There was no other explanation. None. Not because I was smar...
Harry was born in the center of the known universe, Brooklyn, New York, to Edna and David Wittenberg, Holocaust survivors who immigrated to the US after WW II. Raised in a home rooted in Judaism, Harry attended Yeshiva, until his teens when he insisted on attending public school, ultimately...
Since retiring as director of educational outreach at a Holocaust center in 2011, I have been speaking to audiences locally, nationally, and internationally on the topics of legacy, legacy journaling, journaling, death and dying, living a life that matters, and Holocaust-related subjects. A list...