Holocaust

When producer Matti Leshem first brought me the script for The Survivor, I had a visceral reaction and knew I had to make the film. In part it was because I had known members of my own family who had survived the Holocaust, and I had seen its effects on…

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A mural that was painted in a Vermont synagogue more than 100 years ago by a Lithuanian immigrant — and hidden behind a wall for years— has been termed a rare piece of art and has been painstakingly moved and restored. The large colorful triptych painted…

Zofia Posmysz, a Polish radio journalist on assignment in Paris, was crossing the Place de la Concorde in 1959 when she heard from among a group of tourists a voice that shattered the beauty of the scene. The speaker, a woman, was German. Briefly — excruciatingly — Ms. Posmysz thought…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (RNS) — At a seminar for schoolteachers on teaching the Holocaust, instructor Donna Tarney rolled through a list of antisemitic tropes about Jews throughout history. In the Middle Ages, Jews were accused of poisoning wells and using human blood to make matzo. In the early 20th century, automaker…

Soccer team Maccabi Haifa F.C.  was in Athens, Greece for a UEFA Champions League qualifier match it won 4-0 against Olympiacos F.C. on Wednesday, but a team delegation first spent time with members of the city’s Jewish community. Senior officials of Maccabi Haifa F.C. visited the two synagogues of Athens…

Ken Burns told me that during the seven years he worked on his forthcoming three-part documentary, "The U.S. and the Holocaust," he struggled with the "opacity" of the unfathomable fact that 6 million Jews were killed by Germany during World War II. So the legendary documentarian said he opens with…

Israeli film students won a BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) award on Friday at the annual Yugo BAFTA Student Awards for 2022, nabbing the accolade in the Live Action category for their film “Girl No. 60427.” The film, by students Shulamit Lifshitz and Oriel Berkovits from the…

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AP — Ukrainian therapist Svitlana Kutsenko thought she was making progress with her patients — army veterans recovering from mental trauma suffered during fighting with Russia in 2014. Then, war erupted again. Now, five months after Russia invaded Ukraine, Kutsenko says the situation looks bleaker than ever. Many of her…

Best-selling author Stephen King was hoodwinked by Russian pranksters into thinking he was in a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. During the call, he praised Stepan Bandera, one of the architects of the Holocaust. Popular pranksters Vovan and Lexus spoke with King and appeared to convince King to offer…