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Confronting art and love as the Nazis close in
2+ hour, 13+ min ago (381+ words) By Nahma Sandrow February 19, 2026 The New York theater world has been enriched" in recent years" by small companies of artists who are Russian-born and work from a Russian sensibility, though often in the English language. In an interview, Roman Freud,…...
Rembrandt has been hailed for his love of the Jewish people — was it all a myth?
2+ hour, 29+ min ago (579+ words) By Noah Hirsch-Rechter February 19, 2026 In a preface to the 1932 Hebrew edition of the painter Leonid Pasternak's study of Rembrandt, Russian-Jewish poet Hayim Nahman Bialik observed that although the Dutch artist was not Jewish, we "must consider him as "a Jew…...
Art by women portraying their experiences under the Nazis
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As the last generation of Holocaust survivors die, is AI the future of Holocaust education?
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (1067+ words) By Hannah Feuer February 16, 2026 At a Brooklyn synagogue on a recent Monday afternoon, a video of Holocaust survivor Sonia Warshawski played on a two-foot-tall box. Seated in a leopard-print chair, her hands folded in her lap, Warshawski blinked and nodded…...
The Jew who put Hitler on trial — and the play that stages his story
1+ week, 6+ day ago (589+ words) By PJ Grisar February 5, 2026 An oft-forgotten chapter in Hitler's life was one the F'hrer clung to with a vengeance. In May of 1931, a 27-year-old Jewish lawyer named Hans Litten called the Nazi leader to the stand to answer for the…...
What will become of the Dutch farm school that saved my father from the Nazis?
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1538+ words) Students lined up at the Werkdorp Wieringermeer in North Holland. Courtesy of Collection Regional Archives Alkmaar By Heidi Landecker January 24, 2026 Today, the land grows tulips. Nearby, Slootdorp (Ditch Village) honors the canals that carry the water away. In 1939, the school…...
He could have avoided persecution in Nazi Germany — he got bar mitzvahed instead
3+ week, 5+ day ago (734+ words) Gerd "Pips" Phillipsohn and his wife Olga on their wedding day, November 30, 1945. Courtesy of Jane Wesman Public Relations By Olivia Haynie January 25, 2026 When Nazi Germany enacted the Nuremberg Laws on Sept. 15, 1935, being a Jew suddenly meant losing citizenship and the…...
She thought she knew her mother. Then she learned about the concentration camp
4+ week, 6+ hour ago (357+ words) By Olivia Haynie January 22, 2026 In the documentary My Underground Mother, Fox, who is also an occasional Forward contributor, tries to piece together her family history (such as that her mother's birth name was Alta, not Tamar) and understand why her…...
A Jewish-American exile behind the Iron Curtain, he never lost his love for East Germany
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1072+ words) Born Stephen Wechsler, Victor Grossman wrote an online newsletter called Berlin Bulletin, warning about the threat to German democracy posed by the far-right Alternative for Germany, and to American democracy posed by Donald Trump. Courtesy of Amie Rose Terrence Petty…...
Righteous gentiles in the Holocaust were no 'ordinary thing"
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (472+ words) A still from the documentary Courtesy of Series of Dreams By Simi Horwitz December 22, 2025 This was no collective endeavor. As told in this film, none of these people had histories as resistance fighters, although they may have become partisans later....