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Holocaust

Dora Sorell, Holocaust survivor and popular educator on the Holocaust, passed away May 27, 2019.
Posted inObituaries

Survivor and Holocaust educator Dora Sorell of Berkeley dies at 98

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky June 11, 2019
(From left) Andrea Trippen, Marlene Straus and Jacob Trippen in front of the Jewish preschool, Jewish senior housing and JCC in Cologne, Germany
Posted inUncategorized

Reunited at last — meeting the German family that saved mine

Rabbi Andrew Straus by Rabbi Andrew Straus June 10, 2019June 10, 2019
Holocaust Memorial at the California Legion of Honor in San Francisco (Photo/Library of Congress-Carol M. Highsmith)
Posted inBay Area

Homes near S.F. Holocaust memorial receive anti-Semitic mailings

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman May 31, 2019June 6, 2019
The Berlin Holocaust memorial (Photo/Maharat Victoria Sutton)
Posted inTorah

How can we ensure blessings in a world filled with curses?

Maharat Victoria Sutton by Maharat Victoria Sutton May 30, 2019May 23, 2019
Yaya Brown with a friend in the Holocaust memorial garden at Thurgood Marshall High School (Photo/Gabe Stutman)
Posted inEducation

A garden of Holocaust education blooms at Thurgood Marshall High

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman May 22, 2019May 24, 2019
Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti is the subject of a new chamber opera coming to San Francisco, May 23, 2019.
Posted inCulture

Nazis silenced him, but his poetry lives on in new opera coming to S.F.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 14, 2019
Stumbling blocks (stolpersteine in German) commemorate the victims of the Holocaust by marking where each person lived, the date they were deported and the date they were murdered. (Photo/Julie Levine)
Posted inParenting

So much anti-Semitism, and a trip I will never forget

by Julie Levine May 13, 2019May 13, 2019
two black patches with gold wording — one patch in english, one patch in yiddish
Posted inLocal Voice

We will outlive them. But how?

Donald C. Cutler by Donald C. Cutler May 1, 2019May 15, 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

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