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Growing up the child of Holocaust survivors prepared me for this pandemic

I have never been allowed to forget hunger or deprivation. Now I’m prepared for whatever happens during the coronavirus pandemic.

Love and Tears in a Mother and Sons’ Reunion, 70 Years After the Holocaust

Izak Szewelwicz thought he knew his mother Aida. After giving birth to him in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp, she’d sent him to Palestine when she departed for Canada. https://vimeo.com/183442600 Though they later reconnected, when Izak, at seventy, found his birth certificate, he realized how little he actually knew about her. Such as, for instance, […]

A New Brazilian Holocaust Documentary as Beautiful as an Impressionist Painting

The new documentary Red Trees is unlike any Holocaust film we’ve seen. Visually stunning, it is filmmaker Marina Willer’s loving, poetic tribute to her father, Alfred, whose Jewish family was among the last dozen to survive Nazi-occupied Prague during World War II. While Willer intimately recounts a disrupted childhood, colorful, light-filled images of rippling waves, […]

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children of holocaust survivors

Growing up the child of Holocaust survivors prepared me for this pandemic

Love and Tears in a Mother and Sons’ Reunion, 70 Years After the Holocaust

A New Brazilian Holocaust Documentary as Beautiful as an Impressionist Painting

Three Brothers Search Italy for the Cave They Hid In During the Holocaust

What’s So Funny About the Holocaust? This New Film Asks

How It Felt to Be a Holocaust Survivor in Skokie, Illinois

A Granddaughter’s Visual Journey Through Her Bubbe’s Tragic Past

Eric Clapton Wrote a Soundtrack to Auschwitz

Watch This Tearjerker Commencement Address by a Jewish Legal Superstar

Meet The Wonderful Old Men of The Holocaust Survivor Band

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