…databases, codes, and software (“Content”). This does not mean that the KTA owns each component of the Content or the intellectual property rights in each component of the Content. In…
…and being told by the headmaster that it was impossible for true Germans to associate with us, and he probably added some less than complimentary words about the group in…
…There was Amalia and her husband, Karel Prasil. Prasil worked as a office manager for the Allianz Insurance Company. He was a Check, an atheist and a Communist until he…
…recovered hidden children and spirited many others away from Communist Eastern Europe. Rabbi Dr. Schonfeld passed away in Adar 1984 (on his 72nd birthday), and in honor of his 40th…
The Raritan Valley Community College Institute of Holocaust and Genocide Studies will present a virtual Summer Book Series beginning in June. The series, which is free of charge and open…
…Germany in 1939, along with seven teachers and their spouses. From the following year until 1942, it operated as the Ort Technical Engineering School. Eight old boys, who keep in…
DENVER — Ever hear of the man who narrowly escaped the Holocaust, studied art, engineered for a space program and then decided to go to law school and became an…
The former Assistant Director of ITS Berkeley and the author of a widely used textbook on traffic engineering, died June 9,2010. Homburger was born in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1926. In…
…German-born Hermann Hirschberger came to the UK as a teenager, celebrating his bar mitzvah in a hostel before training to be an engineer and later helping to found Belmont Synagogue….
…and did quite well. All three of us earned Master of Science degrees, and had professional careers. I received national recognitionas the principal welding engineer for an international oil company,…
…Joe (Joachim) to the Untied States, where they were married in the early 1950s. Joe became an IBM engineer in N.Y. and after Annemarie’s death at the age of 51…
…British stockbroker visited Czechoslovakia and toured some of the camps at the behest of his friend, who was associated with the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia. The photo that…
The associated Press covers the 70th anniversary of the kindertransports from Czechoslovakia. Sir Nicholas Winton, a Briton, arranged eight trains to carry 669 mostly Jewish children through Germany to Britain…
The haunting images — all associated with Nazi atrocities and humiliation of Jewish people — speak to an era that’s back in the news, as the world celebrates the 70th…
A family picture of Nicholas Winton with one of the hundreds of Jewish children whose lives he saved during World War II. Credit Press Association, via Associated Press Nicholas Winton,…
…exploration of displacement, movement and being forced to find a new home”, the 35-minute show From Here On, by the theatre company Good Chance, brings history to life alongside global…
Sir Nicholas Winton, Petr David Josek/Associated Press In 1988, the BBC program “That’s Life!” aired an episode dedicated to Sir Nicholas Winton, a British stockbroker who rescued 669 mostly Jewish…