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art
Auschwitz really happened — and this artsy architecture exhibit proves it
Jewish Journal
June 23, 2016
It’s been more than 50 years since the Nuremberg trials, yet proving the Holocaust actually happened remains an ongoing project.
Holocaust survivor finds peace in art
Eitan Arom
June 15, 2016
Eva Nathanson doesn’t feel the same guilt her parents did for having been spared an anonymous death at the hands of Nazis, when so many others perished.
Austrian museum reaches settlement over Nazi-looted artwork
Jewish Journal
April 8, 2016
Vienna\’s Leopold Museum said on Thursday it had reached a settlement over five Nazi-looted works of art in its collection that will return two of them to the heir of their original Jewish owner, a victim of the Holocaust.
Passing an art legacy on to the next generation
Jewish Journal
April 17, 2015
During the lengthy visits she would have with her great-uncle and great-aunt, David and Rivka Labkovski, at their home in South Africa, Leora Raikin — who was a young girl at the time — recalls these relatives being a bit eccentric.
Israeli artist depicts pain of rootless Jews in Berlin exhibition
Jewish Journal
September 16, 2014
Moshe Gershuni\’s expressive, historically loaded art, which places symbols of the Holocaust in a religious setting and seeks to polarize opinion about current Israeli society, seems unlikely to reward the casual viewer.
Hunt for Nazi art shows museum failings, former minister says
Jewish Journal
April 8, 2014
A German pensioner\’s decision to let experts check his art trove for Nazi-looted treasures contrasts sharply with the approach of some museums that may hold works stolen from Holocaust victims, a former minister said on Tuesday.
Artist displays what’s missing in a ‘Box’
Elyse Samuels
September 18, 2013
It’s hard to believe that Dwora Fried — a native Austrian with unruly, fiery red hair, a lesbian, world traveler, mother of four and daughter of a Holocaust survivor — is able to create artwork just as complicated, dynamic and vivacious as herself, all within a wooden box that’s only 31 centimeters wide, 21 centimeters high and 8 centimeters deep.
The Children Who Survived
Jewish Journal
September 12, 2012
In her solo show, “Silent Witnesses,” Stephanie Satie portrays four women, all childhood survivors of the Holocaust, who share their stories as a celebration of the human spirit. The idea for the play, which will be staged on Sept. 20 at the South Pasadena Library, came to Satie when she was performing at a fundraiser for Child Survivors of the Holocaust, Los Angeles.
Dr. Seuss and the Holocaust in France
Jewish Journal
July 16, 2012
Seventy years ago this week, 15-year-old Annie Kriegel was sitting in her Paris high school classroom, taking an exam, when her mother suddenly burst into the room and warned her not to come home—the Nazis were preparing to round up and deport any Jews they could get their hands on.
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