Newly discovered photos of Nazi deportations show Jewish victims as they were last seen alive
Descendants of survivors helped researchers identify 279 deportees and tell their stories. ‘We give previously faceless ...
'It was an escape into excellence': How music saved the life of a teenage Jewish cellist in Auschwitz
After being sent to the Nazi death camp in 1943, Anita Lasker survived by playing in its women's orchestra. In 1996, she ...
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Newly discovered photos of Nazi deportations show Jewish victims as they were last seen alive
After contacting 1,700 public and private archives in Germany and worldwide to find more, #LastSeen has now collected visual ... deportations in what was then Breslau, Germany – today Wroclaw ...
My mother was sent to Auschwitz — her cello saved her
At 99, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch is the last surviving member of the Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz — her son tells her ...
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My mother was sent to Auschwitz — her cello saved her
Anita Lasker was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław in Poland), to a very ... a habit she has continued forever, even aged 99. Then came Kristallnacht, and her parents called her straight ...
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The Aesthetic Empire of Alma Mahler-Werfel
A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...
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Newly Discovered Photos of Nazi Mass Deportations of Jews Give Previously Faceless Victims a Voice
After contacting 1,700 public and private archives in Germany and worldwide to find more, #LastSeen has now collected visual evidence from ... showing the Nazi deportations in what was then Breslau, ...
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I Shall Bear Witness: Victor Klemperer in His Time, and Ours
Memorial plaque outside Victor Klemperer’s former apartment building in Berlin. The text below his name reads: “In his ...