…treated with suspicion by the authorities when he arrived in Scotland as an asylum seeker and was sent to the High Court in Edinburgh, charged with communicating with the enemy….
It has been 65 years since D-Day, but the memories haven’t faded for two Oneonta men who fought in the invasion of Normandy, the Allied offensive that was a turning…
Joe Wohlfarth is affably modest for someone who has represented Great Britain in the Maccabiah games – a quality that is magnified when you discover that he played on the…
Craig A. Spiegel writes, in the Cleveland Jewish News, of his trip with his mother, Cleveland resident Thea Lange Spiegel, to a reunion of Kindertransport Kinder in Gdansk (formerly Danzig),…
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…
Nicholas Winton with Tal Cohain, whose grandmother Hanna Slome was rescued by Winton’s Kindertransports. From the Jerusalem Post, article on the Winton train: It took 70 years for this reunion,…
In October 1938 Chaskel, along with close to 20,000 Polish Jews living in Germany, was deported to Poland, torn from his wife and children. For months Chaskel corresponded from Poland…
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…
Born and raised in Austria, with two elder sisters settled in the nascent Zionist state of Palestine, Ramler was transported out of the country just before war broke out. Ramler’s…
The Testimony House for the Heritage of the Holocaust in Moshav Nir Galim, near Ashdod, opened its galleries last week to an exhibit documenting the Bahad-Bnei Akiva youth movement’s activities…
The current exhibition at London’s Serpentine Gallery of the work of influential Jewish artist, Gustav Metzger marks the 50th anniversary of the date when Metzger decided to abandon painting to…
As a Jew my feelings toward Britain have always been mixed. My grandmother and her siblings came to Britain on the Kindertransport in 1939 with 10,000 other Jewish children. This…
Kristallnacht survivor Rachel Zimbler speaks at the Kelley School of Business. Zimbler was just 10 years old when she left her home in Vienna, Austria. “I am going to ask…
He writes, in the Delaware News Journal: On Nov. 23, 1939, my mother and I landed in Miami after an overnight boat trip from Havana. After a 36-hour bus trip…
…in a Conflict and the Media project, during which they’ve been filming a series of interviews with members of the community who have found their lives torn apart by conflict….
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…
Tucked into Booth 55 in a showroom at 36 West 47th Street is A. Friedman Trading, where the proprietors, Alex and Evelyn Friedman, specialize in pearls. The pearls are sold…
Seventy years after British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told his nation they were at war with Germany, London’s Imperial War Museum has an exhibition exploring the outbreak of war in…
Exhibit photographs by Rosie Potter and Patricia Ayre The National Museum in Prague has an exhibition through December 2009, “Für das Kind: Winton Train: Inspiration by Goodness.” Along with paying…
I’m proof it’s never too late to go back to school, Wilde said. “But I don’t recommend people wait this long.” He was born Klaus Weiss and grew up in…