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World War II

Sasha Vasilyuk and her grandfather
Posted inBooks

S.F. novelist surprised that writing about her grandfather’s secret won a Jewish award

by Andrew Silow-Carroll August 25, 2025August 25, 2025

(NY Jewish Week) — Sasha Vasilyuk was shocked when she was named a finalist for the 2025 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, wondering whether the judges would honor an […]

Paul Canin, a retired architect and World War II veteran, at his floating home in the Berkeley Marina, May 11, 2023. This article was produced in partnership with Berkeleyside, which provided the photos. (Photo/Ximena Natera-Berkeleyside-CatchLight)
Posted inObituaries

With a brush made of his own hair, he painted to survive in a Nazi POW camp

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten April 24, 2024May 14, 2024
A young Sasha Vasilyuk with her grandfather on a lake in Ukraine. (Photo/Courtesy)
Posted inBooks

San Francisco author’s debut novel reveals her Soviet grandfather’s secret

by Sue Fishkoff April 11, 2024May 2, 2024
Richard Kluger's new book is "Hamlet's Children."
Posted inBooks

Q&A: Pulitzer-winning Berkeley author’s new novel tells story of Danish Jews in World War II

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten August 4, 2023May 2, 2024
Private First Class Richard Barancik joined the "Monuments Men" in 1945; after the war, he became a prolific architect in Chicago. (Photos/Monuments Men and Women Foundation; Dignity Memorial)
Posted inObituaries

Richard Barancik, last of the ‘Monuments Men’ who recovered art and treasure looted by the Nazis, dies at 98

by Andrew Silow-Carroll July 27, 2023
A bust of Chiune Sugihara is seen near the Sugihara Chiune Memorial Hall in Yaotsu, Japan, his purported hometown. (Photo/JTA-Jordyn Haime)
Posted inNews

Researchers say Japan has exaggerated the story of Chiune Sugihara, the ‘Japanese Schindler’

by Jordyn Haime July 19, 2023July 19, 2023
The defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. (Photo/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy Gerald Schwab)
Posted inNews

Stanford releases full digital archive of Nuremberg trials

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 11, 2023
Jewish refugees arrive in San Francisco from Shanghai on the USS General M.C. Meigs, 1949 (Photo/Courtesy U.C. Berkeley Bancroft Library)
Posted inFrom the Archives

75 years ago this week: San Francisco was ‘Port of Hope’ for Jewish refugees from Shanghai

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 17, 2022August 17, 2022
Patients lay in beds in the “Syndrome K” unit at Fatebenefratelli Hospital. (Photo/JTA-“Syndrome K”-Freestyle Digital Media)
Posted inCulture

To save Jews and keep the Nazis away, these doctors invented a fake infectious disease

by Stephen Silver and JTA August 12, 2022August 12, 2022
Joseph Anuszewicz (second from left) receives the Cross of Valor for his service in World War II, August 1945.
Posted inFirst Person

In Warsaw, I encountered a relative I never knew existed

Geri Spieler by Geri Spieler March 9, 2022

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