75 years ago: S.F. was 'Port of Hope’ for refugees from Shanghai By Maya Mirsky Aug 17, 2022 In the Aug. 15, 1947 edition of what was then called the Jewish Community Bulletin, we wrote that San Francisco “within the last year … has become the port of hope to more than 2,000 refugees who have come through San Francisco from Shanghai on their way to new homes and new lives.” The article… Read More
Film To save Jews from Nazis, these doctors invented a fake disease How the subject of his new documentary, “Syndrome K,” has largely escaped public attention is a mystery to filmmaker Stephen Edwards. “It’s the greatest… By Stephen Silver, JTA Aug 12, 2022
Books 'The Pope at War': book explains Pius XII’s silence during Holocaust One day in late October 1941, Pope Pius XII received chilling news. A bishop in Slovakia wrote to say that the country’s Jews “are simply being shot …… By PJ Grisar, Forward Aug 2, 2022
Film In 'My Name Is Sara,' a girl disguises herself to evade the Holocaust Sara Góralnik Shapiro survived the Holocaust by disguising herself as a Christian and working for a family of Ukrainian farmers. She then went on to live… By Andrew Lapin, JTA Jul 26, 2022
Bay Area They visited Germany to reclaim, then donate, a Nazi-looted heirloom When Gabie Berliner was growing up in San Francisco, the only thing she knew about her father’s cousin Klara was that on the occasion of Gabie’s birth,… By Alix Wall Jul 21, 2022
Bay Area Fremont man visits his birthplace: a DP camp in Germany About five years ago, with the help of his son, Steven, Abe Mazliach started a Facebook group for people like him. Mazliach, 76, of Fremont, was born in a… By Alix Wall Jul 15, 2022
U.S. Why did he leave the Oath Keepers? Because of his Jewish family. Jason Van Tatenhove testified before the Jan. 6 committee that he left the Oath Keepers, the far-right militia group that took part in the attack on the… By Rob Eshman, Forward Jul 15, 2022
Honoring the Survivors Sy Karfiol recounts Holocaust childhood to spellbound audiences Sy Karfiol was just a toddler in 1942 when Nazi soldiers stormed the diamond district in Antwerp, Belgium, and arrested his father, a Jewish diamond… By Dan Pine Jun 30, 2022
World The Vatican will release WWII-era ‘Jewish files’ online Pope Francis has ordered 170 volumes of Jewish requests for help from the Catholic Church during World War II to be published online, two years after… By Andrew Lapin, JTA Jun 27, 2022