Each contained a leather-bound book embossed in Hebrew with the name Shlomo Natan Goldberg, his paternal grandfather who died in Auschwitz on May 26, 1944. “There are no words,” Guiora said ...
Genealogists volunteering for the Looted Books Project recently returned a volume to a 103-year-old Holocaust survivor in Florida who was given the book in 1930 as a gift for her good performance in ...
"This is for us a sacred task," says a world-renowned expert on German Jewish genealogy from the Looted Books Project.
It was exactly what they sought to find: evidence the Nazis had looted the book during the Holocaust. Who was Marta? Was the Hugo who inscribed the book the same Hugo who wrote the play? Who else read ...
Fairweather writes that Bauer’s story shows “how the Holocaust came to define our collective sense of humanity.” Yet his book arrives as major political parties are working to stamp the ...
Even a surprising number of books about the Holocaust were removed in Monroe County. In addition, some books related to book bans were also banned: the classic “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury ...
A cache of family documents led a journalist to discover the source of the wealth that allowed his family to remake life in ...
infusing his books with color and beauty but also sorrow for all that was lost in the Holocaust, died Feb. 15 at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 89. The cause was the flu and pneumonia ...
The books were taken from his paternal grandfather, Schlomo Natan Goldberg, when he arrived in Auschwitz, and he later died there on May 26, 1944. The books were recently returned to Guiora by an ...