7+ mon, 4+ week ago   (260+ words) After winning the competition, Taft’s image was displayed on the cover of the Nazi magazine Sonne ins Haus, meaning Sunshine in the House, where she was identified by the family’s housekeeper. After being confronted by Taft’s parents, Ballin told the…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (190+ words) Sun Sentinel Helen Daniel, a Delray Beach resident who was born in Germany on Aug. 6, 1925, survived unimaginable horrors as a child, hiding in an attic for 10 months during the Holocaust. Thanks to the kindness of Peter Starch — the family’s chauffeur,…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1815+ words) you must do it immediately.” Here are some of the stories of the prominent survivors who have died recently....

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (814+ words) Students took what they learned from the survivor stories to write song verses alongside first-generation...

11+ mon, 2+ week ago   (563+ words) Robert Jay Lifton, the psychiatrist and public intellectual whose groundbreaking work on the psychology of genocide shaped Holocaust and Jewish studies for the past 40 years, died on Sept. 4 at his home in Truro, Massachusetts. He was 99. Lifton, who was raised…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1316+ words) Rūdninkai, LITHUANIA — Deep in the trees and swampy thickets of Lithuania’s Rūdninkai Forest, a series of makeshift forts is sinking into the earth. These represent the remains of underground bunkers where Jewish partisans resisted their annihilation in the Holocaust. Under…...

6+ mon, 6+ day ago   (1791+ words) A grassroots group has tapped into a concern many Boca Raton neighbors feel — that the city is failing to prevent overdevelopment. Up went the number of supporters for “Save Boca,” which surfaced in opposition to a redevelopment project for city-owned…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago   (587+ words) With antisemitism seeping slowly into our society, my sister Evelyn Grapek, now 97, recently talked about her childhood memories in Berlin, Germany, during the early years that Hitler rose to power. In 1937, she explained to me, she and my parents were…...