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Breaking the Silence Around Sexual Violence

In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Wagner College Holocaust Center took on a topic with very contemporary resonance: sexual assault. International Holocaust Remembrance Day is held on January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945. The January…

Saviors at Nazi Ground Zero

Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List” introduced the world to the improbable enigma and moral dilemma of a German Nazi Party member who rescued Jews. The combined commercial forces of Spielberg and the Hollywood image-making machine turned Oskar Schindler into a larger-than-life…

The Jacket from Dachau

The Jacket from Dachau:One Survivor’s Search for Justice, Identity, and Home In July of 2015, The Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) was contacted by a vintage clothing dealer about a recent acquisition of a unique garment at an…

Stories of the Holocaust: Overcoming Historical Trauma

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The Blue Card is thrilled to announce the launch of our new podcast Stories of the Holocaust: Overcoming Historical Trauma. We invite you to join us in listening to the incredible story of Professor Laszlo Adler, Holocaust survivor, esteemed professor,…

Hidden by the Holocaust as young children…

Hidden by the Holocaust as young children, they escaped the Nazis by disappearing into attics and basements. Now, these last survivors are coming forward to reclaim a childhood lost. “These individuals had to grow up overnight,” she says. “Many of…

Altruism Can Be Learned

Learned altruistic behavior, seeing all people as equals, gave the rescuers the ability to transcend the propaganda against the Jews and to see them as human beings just like themselves. Eva Fogelman Most Germans during the Nazi era weren’t executioners….

Who is considered a Holocaust survivor?

My parents were both Polish Jews and survived the Holocaust through twists of fate that saved them from the horrors of the Nazi death camps. My father escaped from a ghetto in Belarus to the untamed forest, where he joined…

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