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Miriam Zimmerman

Miriam Zimmerman

Miriam Zimmerman is professor emerita at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, where she taught the Holocaust course for 25 years. She is the daughter of a Holocaust survivor.

"The rubble of Gaza looks like the rubble of the Warsaw Ghetto after the uprising," writes Miriam Zimmerman.
Posted inOpinion

‘Wounded child, no surviving family’ — 1944 in Europe or 2024 in Gaza?

Miriam Zimmerman by Miriam Zimmerman March 29, 2024March 29, 2024

A new phrase has arisen in Gaza: “Wounded child, no surviving family.” “WCNSF” is written on files by Doctors without Borders volunteers in Gaza. It gives a heads up to […]

An anti-Nazi protest in America, seen in "The U.S. and The Holocaust."
Posted inLocal Voice

Ken Burns’ Holocaust series reminds us we are an anti-immigrant nation

Miriam Zimmerman by Miriam Zimmerman September 20, 2022September 21, 2022
The Last Supper, which some believe was a Passover meal, as seen in the current iteration of the Oberammergau Passion Play. (Photo/Courtesy Oberammergau Passion Play 2022)
Posted inOpinion

The Oberammergau Passion Play once stoked antisemitism. A revised version strives to be less inflammatory

Miriam Zimmerman by Miriam Zimmerman June 17, 2022June 23, 2022
a woman carries a child away from a raft on a beach in Europe
Posted inLocal Voice

Learning from Germans: how not to be a bystander

Miriam Zimmerman by Miriam Zimmerman August 14, 2018August 16, 2022

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