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escaping from nazis

The story of American Jews helping Southern blacks is well known. But the story of Southern blacks helping oppressed German Jews is not. As Nazism swept Germany in the 1930s, Jewish intellectuals fled to the United States, seeking new opportunities. Instead, they discovered closed doors at many American colleges, where anti-Semitism was rampant. Fortunately, these refugee scholars […]

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Ever wanted to peek into the home life of a professional toymaker and artist? At a new exhibit at Los Angeles’s Skirball Cultural Center, now you can. “The Door is Always Open” recreates the childhood home of artist Gary Baseman and all its accoutrements. Though his name may not be familiar to you, you’ve probably seen Basemen’s artwork, on TV […]

After a Gestapo raid on May 27, 1942, Victor Klemperer wrote in his diary that the journal’s discovery “undoubtedly” would have meant death. “But,” the journalist and scholar vowed, “I shall go on writing. That is my heroism. I will bear witness, precise witness.” The surviving volumes—a 1st-person account spanning the entire Nazi era—are unique, invaluable pieces of Holocaust documentation. Seven […]

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