Remembrance cannot fail
By Emilie Bauer
ebauer {at} journalandcourier(.)com
Stan Alexander was a full generation younger than those who stood beside him as he chanted Psalm 23 in Hebrew.
But his family history holds the same story of survival as three area Holocaust survivors participating with him in the opening ceremonies of the 25th annual Greater Lafayette Holocaust Remembrance Conference.
Group pushes for restoration of old memorial
BY JAMES WARRICK-ALEXANDER
Staff Reporter
A group of New Haven residents has recently begun a campaign to restore and to increase awareness of the city’s Holocaust memorial in the Edgewood neighborhood through Greater New Haven Holocaust Memory, an organization founded last fall to preserve the memorial.
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New York Students Visit U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
March 27, 2006
By Rabbi Moshe Shur
Students from more than 18 colleges in the metropolitan New York area joined together to visit the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. IA diverse group of African American, Jewish, Hispanic, Persian, Russian, West African, Haitian, Japanese, Muslim and Chinese students participated in the 10th annual multicultural program, sponsored by the David and Linda Taub family in cooperation with New York Hillels.
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Untold Stories: Three Children Under Nazi Regime
On March 30, at 12:30 pm at Thomas More College, Steigerwald Hall, The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education will present a panel discussion about how organized institutions during WWII exploited Nazi policies to their own advantage, using children in particular, as pawns. Panelists include two child survivors of the Holocaust, Zahava Rendler and Henry Fenichel, and a former member of Hitler Youth, Sonja Stratman.
Children are the most vulnerable victims in times of war, and this is poignantly displayed in the panelists’ stories. All three were exceptionally defenseless during the Holocaust, owned and manipulated by the larger structures and institutions.
JUNE 12, MONDAY EVENING AT TOWN HALL, 7:30 P.M.
WITH A STAR-STUDDED CAST
Reserve Now for the Amazing Benefit Gala Event “Broadway Salutes Yiddish” with the casts from three top Broadway shows,, Leonard Nimoy singing in Yiddish (maybe even Vuclan, who knows?) All the favorites will be there, with big shot producers, old timers, new timers and surprises.
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PASSOVER GATHERING FOR POLISH HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
PLANNED IN THE LAURENTIANS
A special gathering of Polish Holocaust survivors and their families is going to be held during Passover at Hotel Le Chanticler in St.Adele, in the Laurentian mountains, 50 minutes Northwest of Montreal. Although the hotel is open for all of Passover, this special gathering will take place on the “Last Days” of Yom Tov: 4/18-4/21.
The educational programs and talks for attendees will describe the plight of Polish Jewry with a specific focus on the Warsaw Ghetto. The uprising began on April 19. There will be seminars, group discussions, poetry/ book readings and special prayers, all in the uplifting and positive spirit of “Holiday of Redemption.” There will also be a special Yizkor service on 4/20, the last day of Passover, in memory of the martyrs of the Revolt.
There is a 10% discount for Jews who hail from Poland. Orthodox tradition will be observed, and the food will be prepared to the strictest standards of kashrut. For additional information contact Rabbi Dr. Nathan Dovid Rabinowich at NRabinowic {at} aol(.)com or call Jewish Heritage Tours at 888-253-9167 or 718-796-3199. Canadians call 514-924-9447.
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TU may be home for Holocaust center
Some in Towson community hope committee will select university
by Chris Castillo
March 27, 2006
One University System of Maryland campus will soon host a center for Holocaust study for the state of Maryland, and some at Towson want to be that campus.
“I think it would be a pretty nice distinction if it were successful,� Towson Provost James Brennan enthusiastically said. “I think it’s a beautiful fit.�
A Maryland law passed last year established a task force to “advise the University System of Maryland of a pilot program at a campus chosen by the Board of Regents that creates a Center for Excellence on the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights, and Tolerance that promotes education regarding the Holocaust, genocide, human rights, and tolerance.�
In study, youth see Holocaust and
Jewish culture as keys to identities
By Sue Fishkoff
March 26, 2006
OAKLAND, Calif., March 26 (JTA) — Some of the more interesting findings of the newly released Reboot study of young U.S. Jews focus on how Generation Y Jews understand what it means to be Jewish.
Respondents — Jews aged 18 to 25 — were presented with 12 possible factors and asked how much each “matters� to being Jewish. Top on the list was “remembering the Holocaust,� which 73 percent of respondents said matters “a lot.�
Next were two universal values, “making the world a better placeâ€? and “leading an ethical and moral life,â€? which garnered 64 percent and 63 percent, respectively. Then came two more ethnocentric values, “understanding Jewish historyâ€? (58 percent) and “learning about…
Holocaust lessons, one by one
By RITA SAVARD, Sun Staff
GROTON — Even newborns were exterminated like rats.
Poisoned by gas. Burned in ovens. Starved to death. Worked to death.
Youth guaranteed no mercy for more than one million children systematically murdered by Nazis. The Holocaust is loaded with numbers of the dead: Six million Jews, 1.9 million Poles, 3.3 million Soviet prisoners of war, 1.4 million gypsies and millions more.
Shadow of Holocaust hangs over museums’ fight for paintings
BY MARK STRYKER
Detroit Free Press
DETROIT - On Dec. 14, 1938, a German-born Jew living in Paris named Martha Nathan sold two of her most valuable paintings, van Gogh’s “The Diggers” and Paul Gauguin’s “Street Scene in Tahiti,” to three Jewish art dealers in Paris. Nathan received the equivalent of $9,364 for the van Gogh and $6,865 for the Gauguin.
Nearly 70 years later, the circumstances surrounding that sale - how and why Nathan sold her paintings and the price she received - are at the core of federal lawsuits brought by the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Toledo Museum of Art against 15 distant Nathan heirs living in Europe, Australia and America. The museums sued in January after failing to resolve a festering ownership dispute dating to May 2004. The museums want the court to affirm their legal title to the paintings.