Tag: Holocaust survivor
BBC documentary: Artists portray Holocaust survivors – Media
It is said that the average museum visitor spends five seconds in front of a painting before moving on, but five seconds is a joke when standing in front of…
Contemporary witnesses: You will be missing
An obituary for the Holocaust survivor Jurek Rotenberg – and a friendship. .source site
Holocaust survivor Trude Simonsohn has died – politics
The Holocaust survivor Trude Simonsohn is dead. She died on Thursday at the age of 100. “We are stunned and saddened by this great loss,” said Salomon Korn, chairman of…
For the first time from the estate: Gabriele Tergit’s novel “That’s how it was” – Culture
from Marie Schmidt Gabriele Tergit has planned to write a novel of the century three times, telling of the end of the world as she knew it. Twice she has…
Dispute about WG Sebald on the 20th anniversary of his death – culture
from Felix Stephan There is currently no other German writer who is able to trigger such an avalanche of essays, reviews and comments in the English-speaking world as WG Sebald.…
The author and concentration camp survivor Margot Friedländer is 100 years old – culture
Margot Friedländer survived the Holocaust, made a living in America and returned to the land of the perpetrators, where she tirelessly writes and speaks to young people in schools. About…
Charlize Theron donates toothbrushes – Panorama
Open detailed view (Photo: Jordan Strauss / dpa) Charlize Theron, 46, South African-American actress, donates toothbrushes. “I want to know that my children know what is going on in their…
“Who’s Afraid of Alice Miller?” In the cinema: The war in her – culture
Martin Miller is a mountain of a man, but also looks like an “eternal” child. When the now over seventy-year-old sees an old Norwegian television interview with his mother in…
The author and concentration camp survivor Margot Friedländer turns 100 – culture
Margot Friedländer survived the Holocaust, made a living in America and returned to the land of the perpetrators, where she tirelessly writes and speaks to young people in schools. About…
Erna de Vries died – culture
The Holocaust survivor and contemporary witness Erna de Vries is dead. She died early Sunday morning in her house in Lathen in Emsland, her daughter Ruth de Vries confirmed on…