The Escape Artist
Author and Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland detailed the life of Rudolf Vrba, who spent two years at Auschwitz and became the first Jew to break out of the concentration camp. The Museu…
818 viewsAuthor and Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland detailed the life of Rudolf Vrba, who spent two years at Auschwitz and became the first Jew to break out of the concentration camp. The Museu…
818 viewsJournalist Charlie Inglefield and Yifat Cohen-Meir, daughter of Holocaust survivor Thomas Geve, reflected on Mr. Geve’s over 80 illustrations he made as a young adult that document his life …
127 viewsRebecca Frankel recounted how a Polish family evaded the Nazis by living for two years in the Bialowieza Forest and how they were eventually saved and immigrated to the United States. This p…
494 viewsJudy Batalion recounted the Jewish women who served as resistance fighters against the Nazis in Poland during World War II. This was a virtual event hosted by the Museum of Jewish Heritage i…
369 viewsJournalist Jack Fairweather recounted the efforts of Witold Pilecki, a member of the Polish resistance during World War II, who volunteered to be deliberately captured and sent to Auschwitz …
733 viewsEsther Safran Foer remembered her childhood as the daughter of Holocaust survivors and her search for lost family members. This was a virtual event hosted by the Museum of Jewish Heritage in…
615 viewsHolocaust survivor Max Eisen reflected on his life and his imprisonment at Auschwitz during World War II.
995 viewsMary Lane talked about her book, Hitler’s Last Hostages: Looted Art and the Soul of the Third Reich, in which she recalls Nazi efforts in the 1930s to repress artistic expression and remove …
1,255 viewsHolocaust survivor Irene Butter reflected on her childhood, being imprisoned in two concentration camps during World War II, and her arrival to the United States in 1945.
1,051 viewsFormer U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power talked about the role of the U.S. in the world. In an interview moderated by Abraham Foxman, who served as national director of the Anti-Def…
846 viewsChristian Picciolini talked about his book Romantic Violence: Memoirs of an American Skinhead, in which he recalls his life as a member of the first neo-Nazi skinhead gang. In his book, he d…
1,608 viewsA complete reading of the late Elie Wiesel’s Night at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. This is part three of three.
3,327 viewsA complete reading of the late Elie Wiesel’s Night at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. This is part two of three.
3,821 viewsA complete reading of the late Elie Wiesel’s Night at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. This is part one of three.
23,152 viewsAlex Kershaw, author of The Liberator spoke with 92-year-old photographer Tony Vaccaro, who smuggled his portable 35mm camera onto the battlefield during World War II and created intimate an…
559 viewsElana Maryles Sztokman, former executive director of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA), talked about her book, The War on Women in Israel: A Story of Religious Radicalism and the …
1,019 viewsRon Rosenbaum talked about the updated edition of his book, Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil, about the many theories of how Adolf Hitler formed his ideologies and c…
1,892 viewsLucinda Franks talked about her book, Timeless: Love, Morgenthau, and Me, in which she recalls her marriage to Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. In her book, the author remember…
351 viewsCo-authors Annie Polland and Daniel Soyer talked about their book, Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of Immigration 1840-1920. Using photographs and first person accounts, they d…
905 viewsPhotojournalists, reporters, and academic scholars talked about the ethics of “embedded” journalists working with military units. They also told descriptive stories of working as journalists…
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