Holocaust survivors

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. 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, that […]

By Leah Falk

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This Holocaust Survivor’s Two-Step About Auschwitz Went Viral

Where does a prisoner rescued from Auschwitz find the strength to immediately pivot and fight his captors? “Music” might sound cliche, but when survivor/infantryman/cantor David Wisnia says so, he means it. In a video that recently went viral, he tells the “very funny story” of his unlikely life, punctuated with his own musical interpretations of […]

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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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