Holocaust

For 75 years, Morris Sana lived with the belief that his cousin and best friend Simon Mairowitz was dead. But on Saturday, 87-year-old Sana and 85-year-old Mairowitz cried tears of joy when they reunited in Israel. The cousins were close pals before the Nazi…

THE WORLD THAT WE KNEWBy Alice Hoffman Arguably, every single historical novel should evoke those two much-quoted lines of William Faulkners: The past is never dead. Its not even past. But coming away from Alice Hoffmans gravely beautiful new novel, The Worl…

To the Editor: Thank you for sharing the essay Goodness (Sept. 8) by the late and inspiringly great Toni Morrison. We do not know whether Morrison intended her insights to be applied to the current political landscape. However, the inference is that unless v…

New York (AFP) - A Jewish ram's horn instrument hidden and blown behind the barbed wire of Auschwitz was shown publicly for the first time Monday in New York, where it will be included in an exhibition. The shofar -- a wind instrument traditionally used at s…

Actress Alex Borstein honored her grandmother (and mother) during her moving acceptance speech at the 2019 Emmy awards, which took place at LA's Microsoft theater on Sunday. Borstein, who won the award for best supporting actress in a comedy for her role o…

In accepting her second back-to-back Emmy in the best supporting actress comedy category tonight for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Alex Borstein told a moving story onstage about her Holocaust survivor grandmother, and how she she can be example for women today …

Alex Borstein moved the audience to laughter and tears with her poignant acceptance speech at the 2019 Emmy Awards on Sunday. For the second year in a row, Borstein won the award for supporting actress in a comedy series for her role as brash comedy manager …

Marko Feingold, who survived Auschwitz, in Nazi-occupied Poland and several German concentration camps died at the age of 106 in the city of Salzburg on Thursday after a lung infection. The Auschwitz concentration camp was a complex of over 40 concentration …

The idea of paying reparations for slavery is gaining momentum in the United States, despite being long derided as an unrealistic plan, to compensate for state violence committed by and against people long dead. The topic saw substantive debate in the July 3…

Several years ago, I went off to research a remarkable community that has a history of sheltering vulnerable outsiders. I went looking for clues to how a community like that operates. I hoped I could learn some general lessons there about how groups of people…