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Holocaust

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
Helga Newman at age 9 in Austria, April 1939
Posted inCommunity

80 years later, Palo Alto woman’s story of rescue by Kindertransport

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman April 25, 2019April 29, 2019
Volodymyr Zelensky, waves to supporters at his campaign headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine, April 21, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Xinhua-Sergey-Getty Images)
Posted inWorld, News

Ukraine now first country outside Israel whose president and PM are both Jewish

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA April 23, 2019
Scientist-turned-artist Larry Lagin at Bothwell Open Studios (Photo/Vanessa Thomas)
Posted inUncategorized

Nuclear scientist-turned-artist explores Holocaust

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 17, 2019April 17, 2019
Luigi Toscano's traveling exhibit, seen here in Ukraine, displays portraits of Holocaust survivors who live in the place where the exhibit is on display.
Posted inCulture

Globe-trotting exhibit shows portraits of local survivors at S.F. Civic Center

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 10, 2019
Holocaust survivor and former Berkeley city auditor Anna Rabkin speaking at Temple Sinai in Oakland, March 26, 2019 (Photo/Ilana DeBare)
Posted inUncategorized

A survivor’s journey from Lvov ghetto to Berkeley City Hall

by Ilana DeBare April 8, 2019April 9, 2019
Susanne (Sanne) Kalter DeWitt’s debut memoir is called “I Was Born in an Old Age Home.”
Posted inAuthor! Author!

Two vivid memoirs of Holocaust survival from local authors

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 12, 2019
Holocaust survivor Irene Butter
Posted inSeniors

Survivor with ties to Anne Frank to speak at S.F. synagogue

Shoshana Hebshi by Shoshana Hebshi February 7, 2019February 10, 2019
Théophile Joseph
Posted inHistory

Berkeley’s Théo Joseph, French Resistance fighter, dies at 98

Donna Rosenthal by Donna Rosenthal January 31, 2019January 31, 2019

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