The initiator and founder of the Shoah Wall of Names Memorial is Kurt Yakov Tutter, who was born in Vienna in 1930. In 1939 he fled with his family to Belgium, where he and his younger sister Rita survived the Holocaust with the help of a Belgian family....
Elisabeth R disappeared in the Holocaust, one of the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis. She may have died in Ravensbruck or been transported to one of the notorious death camps such as Auschwitz or Treblinka. No one knows for certain. But now she, and millions of others like her,...
Everybody knows the United States of America, and almost everybody knows most of the States by name. Even the citizens of other nations will often be familiar with the names of the 50 U.S. states because they all feature so prominently in popular culture—in the movies of Hollywood, the...
This district of London, which lies to the south-east of Peckham in the London Borough of Southwark, is believed to owe its name to a local tavern named, you guessed it, the Nun’s Head on the linear Nunhead Green (there’s still a pub there, calledThe Old Nun’s Head, in a buil...
Glick, Peter (2002): “Sacrificial Lambs Dress in Wolves’ Clothing: Envious Prejudice, Ideology, and the Scapegoating of Jews”. Newman, Leonard S. / Erber, Ralph (eds.): Understanding Genocide: The Social Psychology of the Holocaust. New York: Oxford University Press, 113–142.Search in ...
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families, they eventually suffered from the horrors of the Holocaust. Although many, including Joyce’s mother, survived, many others were murdered, and all suffered from persecution and financial loss. And those who survived were once again forced to relocate and start all over in a new ...