Germany’s silence after the Shoah
In Germany, more than a dozen years after the end of World War II, the citizenry remained ignorant of the ...
Tag: Holocaust
Shoah survivor and writer Robert Treuer dies at 89
Treuer wrote extensively about northern Minnesota and the history of Leech Lake Ojibwe By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN / Community News ...
Minnesota’s popular historian
U of M history professor and public intellectual Hy Berman explained politics to generations of Minnesotans By MORDECAI SPECKTOR A ...
Discovering Nasielsk
Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film, by Glenn Kurtz, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ...
A young girl in the ghetto
Rywka’s Diary: The Writings of a Jewish Girl from the Lodz Ghetto, edited by Anita Friedman, Harper, 240 pages, $35 ...
'Phoenix' builds a fable of identity, memory
German director Christian Petzold’s film is a riveting drama that neatly raises profound existential questions in the guise of a ...
A historian’s complicated motives
The Archive Thief: The Man who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust, by Lisa Moses Leff, ...
Two liberations
The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and its Aftermath, by Dan Stone, Yale University Press, 288 ...
Discovering family roots
By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN Community News Editor A photo of Gloria Fredkove appeared in Life magazine — when she was ...
The youngest Shoah survivors
Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance and Hope, by Wendy Holden, Harper, 385 pages, ...
