Fragile Long Before the War
A rare Jewish newspaper published in Częstochowa in 1936 offers a glimpse of a thriving community—and of the antisemitism and growing hostility Jews were already facing three years before the German invasion.…
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A Reference Guide to Holocaust Resources
Sources you can trust…
The Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk: Architecture, Memory, and Politics
Bold design, curated narrative.…
POLIN Museum: A Monument to Life and Memory
A museum recounting 1,000 years of Jewish life in Polish lands.…
The Honourable Woman
The Honourable Woman is a 2014 British political spy thriller written and directed by Hugo Blick for the BBC and SundanceTV. It is among the best television series I have seen. Maggie Gyllenhaal star…
Robert Clary, 1926 - 2022
For many viewers, Robert Clary will always be Corporal LeBeau from Hogan’s Heroes. Behind the laughter, however, was a Holocaust survivor who lost nearly his entire family and spent decades ensuring that the stories of victims and survivors would not be forgotten.…
Google Engineer Uses AI to Identify Faces in Holocaust-era Photographs
Can artificial intelligence help restore identities lost during the Holocaust? From Numbers to Names, created by Google engineer Daniel Patt, uses facial recognition technology to connect Holocaust victims and survivors with photographs scattered across historical archives.…
Remembering Pittsburgh’s Concordia Club
For 135 years, the Concordia Club stood at the center of Jewish social life in Pittsburgh. My father worked there for many years, and as a teenager I took ballroom dance lessons in its elegant ballroom.…