History Unfolded: US Newspapers and the Holocaust What did American newspapers report about Nazi persecution during the 1930s and 1940s? You can help the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum answer this question.A Paris exhibit of Nazi-looted art honors a Europe many fear is under threat again (James McAuley, WaPo, 2-28-17).Some wonder why it took so long.(McAuley, 2-2-18) The Louvre is showing Nazi-looted art in a bid to find its owners.(Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 8-24-21) Listen or read. Almost 80 years later, it was reunited with the family’s heirs. A family hid their Bible in an attic as Nazis invaded.Some 86 years later, their grandson in Maryland got it back.(Sydney Page, Washington Post, 10-16-2020) The Nazis took a precious kettle from a Jewish couple.A Trove of Yiddish Artifacts Rescued From the Nazis, and Oblivion (Joseph Berger, NY Times, 10-18-17) "Many of the items, the experts said, offer glimpses into the hardscrabble everyday lives of the Jews of Eastern Europe when the region, not Israel or the Lower East Side, was the center of the Jewish world.".A group of Jews managed to smuggle out thousands of texts. A contest for the “best Jewish youth autobiography,” open to young men and women, was interrupted by Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939. Found in Translation (Tyler Foggatt, New Yorker, 12-23-19) Lithuanian cartoonist and translator iglė Anušauskaitė travelled to New York to find missing sections of young Jews’ autobiographies, hidden in Vilnius during the Second World War.Finding My Father’s Auschwitz File (Allen Hershkowitz, New York Review of Books, 1-25-19) A detailed account of what a long-term survivor of the Nazi concentration camps went through and how he survived.Echos of Memory (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) An ongoing collection of survivor reflections, memories, and testimonies, written by Holocaust survivors in their own words.The two men, who last saw each other in a concentration camp, fulfilled a dream Sunday in Tamarac as they met again, thanks to a memoir that one wrote. Cousins who survived Holocaust reunite in Broward after almost 70 years (Elinor Brecher, Miami Herald 3-11-12).Cantor has one more lesson to share with his bar and bat mitzvah students: a personal look at the Holocaust (John Barry, St."You've got to acknowledge this! We allowed these women to go to their deaths 60 or 70 years later, carrying the shame of having been abused, when it was never their shame, it was ours." A Q&A interview, partly about abuse the women suffered in the camps. Their real-life story is captured in the gut-wrenching yet stubbornly hopeful novel Three Sisters. We All Bleed Red: A Conversation with Heather Morris (Jane Ratcliffe, LA Review of Books, 1-30-22) Three sisters, Slovakian Jews, were carted off to Auschwitz.
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In Lithuania, he was celebrated as a hero.I concluded that my grandfather was a man of paradoxes, just as Lithuania - a country caught between the Nazi and Communist occupations during World War II, then trapped behind the Iron Curtain for the next 50 years - is full of contradictions."
The story of my grandfather was much darker than I had known. But as I sifted through the material, I came across a document with his signature from 1941 and everything changed. (Silvia Foti, NY Times, 1-27-21) "On her deathbed in 2000, my mother asked me to take over writing a book about her father.
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