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You CAN Go Home Again
... Professor of History at Rutgers , never happened. All the old Shoah Foundation synapses fire at full force. On other days, I am simply in ... their precise geographic, chronological, and communal context. I found myself questioning an educational mission I had helped to ...
deanna.pitre - 02/17/2022 - 3:30pm
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Karen Jungblut, Director of Research and Documentation, Attends Nanjing Massacre Commemoration in China
... The average interviewee age for the survivors is 85 years old; the oldest survivor that was interviewed is 94. Jungblut attended ...
robin.migdol - 01/12/2015 - 5:54pm
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Sigmund Tobias
... the Shanghai Jewish ghetto. In 1938, when he was six years old, he and his parents fled Nazi Germany and sailed to Shanghai, one of the ...
robin.migdol - 09/26/2016 - 5:51pm
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Anita Lasker Wallfisch
... being forced to dig their own graves. Anita was 16 years old. She began engaging in clandestine activities at the paper factory, such as ... England, where she became a professional cellist and married Peter Wallfisch in 1952. Her son and two grandsons are also musicians. Though ...
robin.migdol - 09/25/2015 - 1:20pm
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Carla Garpedian on the testimony of Almas Boghosian
... of years with this family. Almas had a two-year old sister who died on her mother’s back, on the death march. Another ... there a girl there?’ They say that they put about 10 to 20 kids in a boat, and right in the middle of the river they turned the ...
deanna.pitre - 10/25/2022 - 11:49am
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Reconnecting with My Past
... own accents are different from mine), but stories about the old days were virtually nonexistent. As far as I knew, nobody in my family ...
deanna.pitre - 02/17/2022 - 3:25pm
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The Good and the True
... to London to meet Hana. She was already 90 years old but entirely fluent and lively. She had written a journal which had ...
deanna.pitre - 02/17/2022 - 3:57pm
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Adam Herceg
... development program for teachers in Europe, in Prague , 2013-2014. To commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Herceg ... immediately recognized her and “felt like she was an old acquaintance of theirs.” Their reactions to her testimony included ...
robin.migdol - 02/23/2015 - 5:05pm
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U.S. College Professors Attend Echoes And Reflections Seminar At Yad Vashem
... to share educational strategies. They will also visit the Old City of Jerusalem and other sites throughout the country. Among the ...
Anonymous - 04/13/2023 - 1:44pm
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Melinda Goldrich
... learning about the Holocaust. “My father is an 88 year old survivor and I’m realizing how little time is left to get firsthand ...
robin.migdol - 08/28/2015 - 5:59pm