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Holocaust

Journalists visiting a renovated barrack at Auschwitz, Dec. 1, 2016 (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

As Holocaust memories fade, our world becomes more perilous

Doug Kahn by Rabbi Doug Kahn January 17, 2020January 17, 2020
One of the refurbished Holocaust violins that has come to the Bay Area as part of the Violins of Hope event series. (Weinstein Collection)
Posted inHolidays

Violins of Hope concert set at Emanu-El for Holocaust Remembrance Day

Laura Pall by Laura Paull January 15, 2020January 17, 2020
Buchenwald concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel speaks while President Barack Obama and International Buchenwald Committee President Bertrand Herz listen during their visit of the former Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, June 5, 2009. (JTA/Pool/Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

A decade ago, linking Israel’s founding to the Holocaust started a firestorm. Today it’s accepted.

by Ron Kampeas and JTA January 15, 2020January 15, 2020
Violinist Cookie Segelstein of the klezmer band Veretski Pass will play several of the Holocaust violins that have come to the Bay Area for the Violins of Hope series.
Posted inCulture

For local daughter of survivor, playing Holocaust violins is personal

by Andrew Muchin January 14, 2020
Some of the violins that have come to the Bay Area as part of "Violins of Hope." (Laura Paull)
Posted inMusic

Have a violin from Europe with a Holocaust story? ‘Violins of Hope’ wants to hear it.

Laura Pall by Laura Paull January 10, 2020
Yoav Potash’s documentary "The Remembered" uses animation by Igor Latukhin to bring the spoken recollections of the past to life.
Posted inCulture

East Bay filmmaker Yoav Potash wins $10k award to complete doc on Polish village

Laura Pall by Laura Paull January 9, 2020January 21, 2020
Photos from Amnon Weinstein's violin restoration workshop in Tel Aviv will be on display in the Bay Area as part of "Violins of Hope." (Courtesy Amnon Weinstein)
Posted inCulture

Exhibit of Holocaust violins tells story of music as protest

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 9, 2020January 9, 2020
Photos of violins like this one, made in Germany around 1870, will be featured in one of dozens of Violins of Hope events, January through March around the Bay Area. (Amnon Weinstein)
Posted inCulture

‘Violins of Hope’ escaped the Holocaust and are coming to Bay Area for events of music and memory

by Andrew Muchin January 8, 2020January 9, 2020
Clive Owen plays Dovidl as an adult in "Song of Names." (JTA/Sabrina Lantos/Sony Picture Classics)
Posted inTV & Film

Tim Roth and Clive Owen star in ‘Song of Names,’ which melds Holocaust, mystery and music

by Michael Fox December 27, 2019January 6, 2020
(From left) Hedy Durlester, Lotte Marcus and daughter Naomi Marcus at a Dec. 8 event in San Francisco honoring Feng Shan Ho, who saved thousands of Jews from Nazi Germany. (Andrew Esensten)
Posted inBay Area

Israeli, Chinese consulates in S.F. honor ‘Schindler of the East’

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten December 11, 2019December 17, 2019

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