When Jennifer Teege saw ‘Schindler’s List’ as a student in Israel, she was moved and horrified. But she didn’t realize she was part of the story. Now, the book that explains it is causing a firestorm ...
Filmmakers have looked at the Holocaust from a variety of angles. Some have examined it through the eyes of children. Some have focused on specific regions. Others have highlighted individuals who ...
Sure, we all hate Nazis. We hate them in The Pianist and we hate them in Inglourious Basterds too, so what makes Schindler’s List’s Amon Goeth our favorite to loathe? What makes him number 5 on our ...
One afternoon in 2008, 38-year-old Jennifer Teege was browsing the library in her hometown of Hamburg, Germany, when she picked a book off the shelf. As she opened it, Teege found herself staring down ...
Amon Goeth was an SS offer in the German army during World War II who oversaw operations at a concentration camp in Plaszow, Poland. In 1946, Goeth was found guilty of murder of the thousands who were ...
This past Tuesday, on the 77th anniversary of the Kristallnacht—the “Night of Broken Glass”—a petite, 86-year-old woman named Rena Finder captivated hundreds of people in the Murray Function Room with ...
The Polish-born Jew who typed up Schindler’s list is being buried today in Augsburg, Germany, where flags will fly at half-mast in his honor. Mietek Pemper, who typed the names of more than 1,000 Jews ...