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Art Speigelman at The Jewish Museum
New exhibit at the The Jewish Museum features work by the Art Speigelman, most known for his Holocaust memoir Maus. In the pulitzer prize winning graphic novel, Maus, Spiegelman retells the story of...
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A survivor’s tale of retelling.
From The New York Times:“I knew what they were doing, but I didn’t want to believe it,” Mr. Schwartz recently told a class of 50 high school students in this small town in western Germany. “My turn...
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The Book Thief
Based on the book by Marcus Zusak, The Book Thief tells the story of a girl sent to a foster family in Germany during World War II. See the movie or read an excerpt from the book. Filed under:...
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Holocaust Remembrance Day: A History
“The first Holocaust Remembrance Day took place on December 28th, 1949, a year-and-a-half after Israel’s independence. The ashes and bones of thousands of Jews were brought over from the Flossenbürg...
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Summer Reading Suggestion
Mine Okubo was one of 110,000 people of Japanese descent–nearly two-thirds of them American citizens — who were rounded up into “protective custody” shortly after Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, her...
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