The Wannsee Conference: A haunting and disturbingly timely film
The Wannsee Conference (2022). Directed by Mattie Geschonnek. Screenplay: Magnus Vattrodt and Paul Mommertz. Camera and editing: Dirk Grau The participants of the Wannsee Conference (Image: ZDF/Julia Terjung) To mark the 80th anniversary of the notorious Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942, at which leading Nazis and state ministers planned the annihilation of Europe’s Jewish […]
Man is sentenced to 11 years in prison for strangling a Jew on the street in New York – Telemundo New York (47)
NEW YORK – A Brooklyn man has been sentenced for hate crimes after committing a brutal attack in 2018 on a Jewish man who was walking home from his synagogue. Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Donald Leo sentenced 44-year-old James Vincent to 11 years in prison just over a month after a jury found Vincent guilty […]
Installation for victims of the Holocaust in Dresden | Culture | DW
On the night of November 9-10, 1938, Nazi thugs set fire to Jewish shops and synagogues. Homes and shops were ransacked, and scores of people were arrested, beaten and killed. The Reichspogromnacht was the prelude to the largest genocide in Europe. Now an interactive work of art in Dresden is to commemorate the event. The […]
Index – Culture – You have to listen to the story as long as you have someone
Talking and writing about the Holocaust, the trauma caused by Soa, is not easy. And the processing of intergenerational trauma is especially important, but it requires the cooperation of the surviving survivors, their descendants and the world, and it does not go without it. The story of Lily Ebert is therefore important. The now 97-year-old […]
Photo: The first convoy of death. 80 years ago, the Nazis launched the deportation of Jews from the Czech Republic
Exactly 80 years ago, on October 16, 1941, the first train transport with Czech Jews to the ghetto in Lodz, Poland, left the Prague-Bubny railway station. He started the Nazi liquidation of approximately 80,000 Czech Jews who perished in occupied Poland, the Baltics and Belarus. The transports did not arouse greater interest of the Czech […]
New York Festivals TV & Film Awards – BILD documentary “Sheindi’s Diary” wins a film prize! – News
New York – Sheindi’s fate is recorded on 54 yellowed diary pages. The impressive BILD documentation “Sheindi’s Diary – Notes of a Holocaust Survivor” was created from these unique notes by the Jew Sheindi Miller-Ehrenwald (91). The 36-minute film about the fate of the native Hungarian has now been recognized at the New York Festivals […]
Klaus Iohannis goes to the country that has the most fun at the expense of Romania – News by sources
President Klaus Iohannis is taking part in the International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Anti-Semitism in Malmö, Sweden, on Wednesday. Iohannis’ visit to Sweden comes in the context in which the Swedish embassy in Bucharest does not miss any opportunity to make jokes about the scandals in Romania. Klaus Iohannis will participate in the […]
Babi Yar: Zelensky took part in the opening of the Crystal Wall of Wailing
Photo: president.gov.ua Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center The head of state thanked the international guests for their visit and called the presence of the leaders of Israel and Germany at the event symbolic. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, German leader Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Head of the State of Israel Yitzhak Herzog and […]
The tragedy of Babi Yar: the first “stumbling block” was installed in Kiev
Photo: DW The first of 80 “stumbling blocks” in Kiev In the near future, the German Embassy plans to install nine more such memorials, and over the next 70 years. On the 80th anniversary tragedies at Babi Yar in the capital of Ukraine for the first time a “stumbling block” appeared – the object of […]
“Anti-Semitic Law”. Conflict between Poland and Israel
Polish authorities limited the right of descendants of Holocaust victims to return property confiscated from Jews during and after World War II A diplomatic scandal related to historical memory erupted again between Israel and Poland. The Israeli and American authorities accused Warsaw of violating the rights of the descendants of Holocaust victims who lost their […]