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Shoah scholar to use ‘genius grant’ to finish his volume on the war years

LOS ANGELES, June 28 (JTA) — Saul Friedlander, survivor and chronicler of the Holocaust, plans to use his $375,000 “genius grant” to complete the second volume of his life’s crowning work: “Nazi Germany and the Jews.” The 66-year-old scholar was named last week as a recipient of the award, given annually by the John D. […]

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AROUND THE JEWISH WORLD Jewish, German students broaden their knowledge about one another

BERLIN, June 28 (JTA) — The German student laughed with embarrassment. She had just guessed that there are half a million Jews in Germany. “Actually, it is about 75,000,” said American student Leo Sorits, questionnaire in hand. “Don’t worry, I didn’t know the answer myself before today.” Sorits, a 20-year-old junior at Brooklyn College, is […]

AROUND THE JEWISH WORLD Former Kindertransport refugees gather for a last full-scale reunion

LONDON, June 27 (JTA) — Between 1938 and 1940, some 10,000 children from Germany, Austria and Poland were plucked from the imminent threat of the Nazi inferno and brought to safety in Britain. Earlier this month, with age increasingly taking its toll, survivors of the Kindertransport, or children’s transport, converged on London from all over […]

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