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Holocaust

Sam Cohen’s violin (COURTESY MARSHA COHEN)
Posted inCulture

Holocaust-era fiddle, via S.F., joins Violins of Hope

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 19, 2020
Helen Fixler at home in Oakland, with her certificate of recognition from the state Legislature. (MAYA MIRSKY)
Posted inHonoring the Survivors

She spent the war in hiding, from a forest bunker to a haystack

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 19, 2020March 19, 2020
(From left) Fredi, Frida, Zdenka and Filip Levy. (Photo/Courtesy Zdenka Ruchwarger Levy)
Posted inHonoring the Survivors

Zdenka’s story of WWII survival in Croatia and Italy: ‘Others had it worse’

by Gabriel Greschler March 10, 2020March 10, 2020
Historian Jennifer Craig-Norton is the author "The Kindertransport: Contesting Memory." (inset courtesy Jennifer Craig Norton; background from book cover)
Posted inHistory

This historian draws lessons about family separation at U.S.-Mexico border from Kindertransport artifacts

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn February 26, 2020
Holocaust survivor Leon Rajninger at his home in San Francisco. (Photo/Liz Harris)
Posted inHonoring the Survivors

S.F. man, 88, recalls a ‘nightmare’ at every turn

by Liz Harris February 13, 2020February 21, 2020
Holocaust Memorial by George Segal at the California Legion of Honor in San Francisco.
Posted inCulture

Reinstallation ceremony set for restored S.F. Holocaust memorial sculpture

Laura Pall by Laura Paull February 13, 2020February 18, 2020
Bernie Sanders speaks during a press conference at his New Hampshire campaign headquarters in Manchester, New Hampshire, Feb. 06, 2020. (JTA/Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Bernie Sanders: Being Jewish influences my politics ‘very profoundly’

by Ron Kampeas and JTA February 7, 2020
Rena Victor (center) with her sisters after WWII in 1946-47.
Posted inHonoring the Survivors

Rena Victor, 80, recounts surviving Holocaust and bombing of Hamburg

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 5, 2020February 13, 2020
Production of USC Shoah Foundation's "Dimensions in Testimony" program, which makes holograms of Holocaust survivors' testimonies. (Courtesy USC Shoah Foundation)
Posted inPhilanthropy

S.F.-based Koret Foundation gives $10 million to Shoah Foundation

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman January 30, 2020February 6, 2020
Patricia Kristof Moy at Kohl Mansion in Burlingame. (Laura Paull)
Posted inMusic

Violins of Hope: Her mission is to showcase ‘spirit of resistance’

Laura Pall by Laura Paull January 28, 2020

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