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Yom HaShoah

Holocaust Memorial at the California Legion of Honor in San Francisco (Photo/Library of Congress-Carol M. Highsmith)
Posted inYom HaShoah

Bay Area programs to honor Holocaust victims, survivors

by J. Staff April 2, 2021April 5, 2021
Virtual memorial plaques are projected on the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau for Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Marcin Kozlowski-March of the Living)
Posted inHolidays

Virtual memorial plaques projected on gates of Auschwitz for Holocaust Remembrance Day

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA April 21, 2020
In lieu of gatherings to remember Holocaust victims and read aloud their names publicly, Yad Vashem is asking the international public to record themselves reading the names of Holocaust victims and share their videos on social media using the campaign’s hashtags , #RememberingFromHome #ShoahNames. (COURTESY YAD VASHEM)
Posted inUncategorized

Yad Vashem to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day with at-home name-reading videos

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA April 6, 2020April 6, 2020
A teenager visiting the Berlin Holocaust Memorial (Photo/Julie Levine)
Posted inYom HaShoah

After years at a Jewish school, moving to a secular school has been a rude awakening

Talia Bodner by Talia Bodner May 10, 2019May 15, 2019
Israelis display their nation's flag as they revel in Independence Day celebrations, May 8, 2019. (Photo/Hadas Parush-Flash90)
Posted inYom HaZikaron

Back-to-back Israeli holidays are exhausting — and emotionally manipulative

Elana Sztokman by Elana Sztokman May 9, 2019May 9, 2019
a man with a short beard looks despondent, while an arm bearing a swastika armband passes in front of him
Posted inTheater

New play, premiering in S.F., tells the story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

by Patricia Corrigan May 1, 2019May 1, 2019
collage of cover art from "Mourning" by Eduardo Halfon, "We Were the Lucky Ones" by Georgia Hunter, "The Flight Portfolio" but Julie Orringer, and "Sophie's Choice" by William Styron
Posted inYom HaShoah

Why Holocaust fiction is still so popular

by Emily Burack May 1, 2019May 2, 2019
Carole Priven's tattoo is a copy of the one that was forced on her late husband at Auschwitz.
Posted inYom HaShoah

Your tattoo was forced on you at Auschwitz. Mine honors your memory.

Carole Priven by Carole Priven April 30, 2019May 2, 2019
From the cover of "In Broad Daylight" by Patrick Desbois
Posted inYom HaShoah

Q&A: The Catholic priest who found mass graves of 1.5 million Jews

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky April 29, 2019April 30, 2019
Ilse Bloch and Batya Ross — first- and third-generation survivors
Posted inJewish Life

Holocaust survivors are dwindling, but their children are just getting started

Karen Galatz by Karen Galatz April 12, 2018April 14, 2018

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