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For three decades, Italian musician Francesco Lotoro has traveled the world collecting manuscripts of music written in concentration camps and the Jewish ghettoes during World War II by victims and survivors of the Holocaust.
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Book Review: ‘The Tragic Voyage of the St. Louis to Flee Nazi Germany – and a Grandson’s Journey of Love and Remembrance’ by Martin Goldsmith
' Alex’s Wake' is a book with a lesson for today.
Read More »Interview: Actor Saul Reichlin on the Holocaust-Themed ‘The Good and the True’ and his Sholem Aleichem Dramatizations
Saul Reichlin has also toured 35 cities with his dramatizations of stories by Sholom Aleichem.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Good and the True,’ Adapted by Brian Daniels
Brought to visceral, organic life by the exceptional Isobel Pravda and Saul Reichlin we follow Hana Pravda and Milos Dobry through the events of WWII and the Holocaust and are heartened by their goodness and their truth as they mend their lives and recreate themselves anew.
Read More »Interview: Allen Malnak, Author of ‘Hitler’s Silver Box’
"My goal is to put the reader into each scene. Let her smell the smells, hear the shrieking brakes."
Read More »Blu-ray Review: Schindler’s List
Schindler's List gets an incredibly impressive Blu-ray upgrade, even if it lacks fresh extras.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: Schindler’s List
Spielberg's filmic look at the Holocaust arrives on Blu-ray.
Read More »Book Review: The Druggist of Auschwitz: A Documentary Novel by Dieter Schlesak
Fiction and nonfiction combine to examine the human capacity to inflict and endure suffering at Auschwitz.
Read More »Interview with Dr. Allen Malnak, Author of Hitler’s Silver Box
Dr. Allen Malnak's novel is one of those thrillers that would make a great movie.
Read More »Book Review: Reich TV by Jeff Pearce
The darkness of times during the Hitler regime.
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