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Helen Mirren as Grandmère and Bryce Gheisar as Julian in "White Bird: A Wonder Story." (Larry Horricks)
Film
‘White Bird’ stars Helen Mirren as a Holocaust survivor who teaches her grandson about kindness
By Shira Li Bartov
The major motion picture is an adaptation of “Wonder” author R.J. Palacio’s graphic novel of the same name.
‘For the Child’ exhibit tells Kindertransport story for adults and children
By Adam Reinherz
Helen Mirren as Grandmère and Bryce Gheisar as Julian in "White Bird: A Wonder Story." (Larry Horricks)
October 6, 2024, 7:42 pm
‘White Bird’ stars Helen Mirren as a Holocaust survivor who teaches her grandson about kindness
The major motion picture is an adaptation of "Wonder" author R.J. Palacio’s graphic novel of the same name.
By Shira Li Bartov
Image of Herbert Kaye's suitcase from 'For the Child' exhibition. (Photo courtesy of Milli Segal)
October 5, 2024, 9:06 pm
‘For the Child’ exhibit tells Kindertransport story for adults and children
'The exhibit tells heroic stories of simple people, which can ultimately inspire students'
By Adam Reinherz
Solange Lebovitz shares her story at the Holocaust Center’s Sept. 12 event at Chatham University (Photo by Abigail Hakas)
September 16, 2024, 10:16 am
Solange Lebovitz recounts her experiences at Holocaust Center event
As a child, Lebovitz was hidden in France with a Catholic couple.
By Abigail Hakas
Fred Kormis in his studio in the 1980s. (Courtesy Wiener Holocaust Library Collections)
September 10, 2024, 9:03 am
He escaped the Nazis and created Britain’s first memorial to their victims. Now this artist is getting a second look.
Fred Kormis’ art was labeled “degenerate” and pulled from galleries while he and his wife fled Germany.
By Shira Li Bartov
Tucker Carlson, the former “Fox News” cable-TV host ho now has his own show, speaks on stage on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on July 18, 2024. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, via JNS)
September 6, 2024, 3:59 pm
Tucker Carlson and the turning point for right-wing antisemitism
The former “Fox News” host’s platforming of Holocaust denial could blow up the GOP on the eve of the presidential election.
By Jonathan Tobin
Irmgard Furchner, a former secretary for the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp, arrives with her lawyers during her trial in Itzehoe, Germany, Dec. 6, 2022. German courts require the face of defendants to be obscured in photographs. (Marcus Brandt/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
August 20, 2024, 5:03 pm
Germany court upholds conviction of 99-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary
There remain three more cases of accused accomplices to Nazi war crimes pending.
By Toby Axelrod
Emily Loeb, Rebecca Jacobson, Alain Tamonoche, Adelaide Madiesse Nguela, and Debbie Stueber (Photo by Abigail Hakas)
August 8, 2024, 12:07 pm
Jewish and Bamileke communities connect over shared history
“Most of us are here seeking the truth, seeking recognition, wanting a name to be said for the first time without fear."
By Abigail Hakas
An architectural rendering of the Moshal Shoah Legacy Campus. (Credit: Courtesy of Skora Architects)
July 17, 2024, 8:41 am
New center at Yad Vashem showcases millions of Holocaust artifacts
“The facility was designed to strike a delicate balance between conservation and accessibility, between past and future,” explains Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan.
By Judy Lash Balint
(From left) Rebecca Baverso, Michele Russo and Stanlee Stahl at the 2024 Summer Institute for Teachers (Photo courtesy of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous)
July 8, 2024, 11:06 am
Two local teachers chosen for elite Holocaust education fellowship
The program helped fellows consider new ways to think about and teach the Holocaust.
By Kathleen Gianni
A group of schoolchildren read a news magazine in "June Zero," a new film dramatizing the Eichmann trial's reception in Israel. (Courtesy Cohen Media Group)
July 4, 2024, 2:09 pm
‘June Zero’ depicts Adolf Eichmann’s trial through the eyes of Israelis adjacent to it
The film "takes an ambitious and unconventional approach by focusing on a series of events outside of the trial itself."
By Stephen Silver
Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer, June 12, 2012. (Credit: Scott-Hendryk Dillan via Wikimedia Commons)
June 26, 2024, 7:01 pm
102-year-old Shoah survivor is the cover star of Vogue Germany
Margot Friedländer was the only member of her family to survive the camps.
By JNS
Harry Drucker and his great-grandchildren (Photo courtesy of the Drucker family)
June 17, 2024, 11:32 am
Holocaust survivor, dedicated tailor Harry Drucker dies at 100
"You never forget what happened. And you never forget your family. But you don’t dwell on it.’”
By Justin Vellucci
Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry visit Auschwitz in "Treasure," a 2024 tragicomedy set in the 1990s. (Bleecker Street)
June 16, 2024, 10:39 am
Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry take a father-daughter trip to Auschwitz in tragicomedy ‘Treasure’
The film tells the story of New York journalist Ruth Rothwax and her Holocaust survivor father as they visit the city of his birth — Łódź — and the concentration camp he survived.
By Toby Axelrod
Emily Loeb presenting a Generations talk to students from Norwin High School. (Photo courtesy of the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh)
June 14, 2024, 4:30 pm
Holocaust Center presents Generations Speakers Series, sharing stories of survivors and their families
Melissa Marks: “I look at the people who saved my mother and my grandmother. They did an extraordinary thing."
By Kathleen Gianni
Judge Henry Ellenbogen. (Photo courtesy of Rauh Jewish Archives at Heinz History Center)
May 24, 2024, 3:33 pm
Letters of Judge Henry Ellenbogen, now digitized, provide glimpse into Jews’ struggles in pre-war Europe
'Allow the information to sit in your mind, without having to necessarily draw a conclusion'
By Adam Reinherz
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