World War II Archives

16 Jun

Highlights, Latest, The Wisdom Project

Wisdom Project | Agnes Biro Rothblatt, 90

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Pam Janis

June 19, 2023

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"There was no food, no heat. My mother scavenged for wood from bombed and abandoned houses to get heat. Eventually, the Iron Curtain closed the country. My parents felt that we had no future there. We were considered too bourgeois."

19 Jan

Visual Moment, Winter Issue 2023

Visual Moment | Tales of Rifles and Resistance

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Diane M. Bolz

January 19, 2023

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These are the words of Faye Schulman, who, at age 16 during World War II, fled to the forests outside her hometown of Lenin, Poland, after witnessing her entire family being executed by the Nazis.

05 Nov

Beshert, Latest

Beshert | My Mother’s Love Song

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Marion Silver

December 7, 2021

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Penny and Peter first met on a kibbutz in Palestine, where they both moved to escape the second World War. They were separated when she moved to England, only to be reunited years later, after he had become a famous singer in Israel.

22 Jun

Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Latest

Book Review | Nuance in the Fight between Good and Evil

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Eugene L. Meyer

June 28, 2021

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1939: A People’s History By Frederick Taylor W. W. Norton & Company; 448 pp; $30 Library shelves are full of books whose titles celebrate, commemorate or contemplate a...

27 Sep

Jewish World, Latest

In Hania, Crete—a Town With No Jewish Presence—a Synagogue Thrives

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Sherri Moshman Paganos

September 27, 2017

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During the mid 19th century, the island’s Jewish population reached 900, but after much emigration, by World War II only around 300 Jews were left, all in Hania.

05 Aug

History, Memoir

An Activist Remembers Her Civil Rights Journey

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Anna Isaacs

April 28, 2024

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"I wanted readers to see and feel what it was like to be a child subjected to intensive bombing," writes Marione Ingram, who as a child survived the Allied bombing of Hamburg, Germany, in 1943.

09 Oct

Latest, Uncategorized

How “Anti-Semite” Miklos Horthy Saved the Jews of Budapest

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Rachel Gross

February 2, 2016

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By Eliezer M. Rabinovich In 1944, Hungarian Regent Miklós Horthy saved more Jews than anyone else in the world. Yet today, next to the efforts of heroic...