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Holocaust

1928: Edgar Feuchtwanger as a child in Munich — where he literally lived across the street from Adolf Hitler
Posted inHistory

He lived across the street from Hitler, and he’s coming to Palo Alto

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller October 3, 2018October 3, 2018
Sam Genirberg speaks about how he survived the Holocaust in Germany, Sept. 13, 2018. (Photo/Dan Pine)
Posted inBay Area

Escape artist: Sharing his startling tale of Holocaust survival

by Dan Pine September 22, 2018October 1, 2018
(Photo/Pixabay CC0)
Posted inFirst Person

In time of reflection, gratitude to my survivor grandparents

Daniel Klein by Daniel Klein September 18, 2018September 17, 2018
Jewish refugees arrive in San Francisco from Shanghai, 1949. Second from left: fashion designer Ilie Wacs, who later cowrote a book about the Shanghai Jews. (Photo/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Ilie Wacs)
Posted inHistory

The last of the Shanghailanders, S.F.’s unique Holocaust refugee community

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 14, 2018June 26, 2019
A 93-year-old witness spoke at the unveiling about being a teenager when the Nazis used Kroscienko as a mass grave. (Photo/Jesse Mintz-Roth)
Posted inBay Area

With new monument, Jews and Poles refuse to let the past fade away

Hannah Jannol by Hannah Jannol August 16, 2018
a woman carries a child away from a raft on a beach in Europe
Posted inLocal Voice

Learning from Germans: how not to be a bystander

Miriam Zimmerman by Miriam Zimmerman August 14, 2018August 16, 2022
Herman Shine
Posted inObituaries

San Mateo’s famed Auschwitz escapee Herman Shine, 95

by JTA and J. Staff August 1, 2018
From the cover of "Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna"
Posted inCulture

The dark links between Dr. Asperger and the Nazis

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller July 31, 2018July 31, 2018
Posted inCulture

Warsaw exhibit bares chilling tale of 1968 purges

by Rob Gloster July 22, 2018July 24, 2018
Hans Moser in “The City Without Jews” (Photo/Courtesy JFI)
Posted inTV & Film

Restored 1924 Austrian satire eerily foreshadows Jewish fate

Laura Pall by Laura Paull July 16, 2018

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