A recent New York Times feature about a troubled World War II veteran has inadvertently shed fresh light on the Roosevelt administration’s refusal to bomb the railways leading to Auschwitz. The story also implicitly undermines one of the major themes of the recent Ken Burns documentary about America’s response to the Nazi genocide.
Read More »Music and Memoirs: Artistic Responses to the Holocaust
Longmont composer, Michael Udow, will describe the development of his opera, "A Wall of Two," and will share a video of musical excerpts. The opera is based on the Holocaust survival story of sisters Henia and Ilona Karmel.
Read More »Holocaust Education Program at the Boulder JCC on April 17, 2023
The Boulder JCC will host Holocaust Scholar Professor Dorota Glowacka on Monday, April 17 in advance of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Professor Glowacka will speak on “A Vanished World: Cultural Genocide and the Destruction of Central and Eastern European Jewish Heritage During the Holocaust.”
Read More »The Jewish Courts That Judged Jews Accused of Nazi Collaboration
Shepsl Rotholc was a famous champion Jewish boxer in Poland in the 1930s. In 1941, two years after the Germans invaded, he became a policeman in the Warsaw Ghetto, helping to maintain order and enforce Nazi orders. Was Rotholc guilty of collaborating with the Nazis? Did he have any other choice? Should he be considered a hero for trying to save his family? These were the kinds of questions considered by a special "Jewish honor court" that tried Rotholc in 1946 for aiding the Nazis.
Read More »Canine Scientist, Zionist Hero, and Her Dog-Training Techniques Were Used by the Nazis
Toward the end of her life, the Austrian-born Jewish scientist Rudolphina Menzel acknowledged a horrifying reality: the dog-training techniques she pioneered had been used by the Nazis to commit atrocities.
Read More »Did Ken Burns Explain America and the Holocaust?
Finally we got the whole story: Americans hate Jews and others. The nation's mood has not changed, the past is the present, the present is the past. This according to Ken Burns.
Read More »A Filmmaker’s Post-Mortem on Ken Burns & The Holocaust
Ken Burns' advance interviews for his new Holocaust film provided much material for public discussion. Now that PBS has broadcast the six-hour series, how does the film measure up?
Read More »A Holocaust Mystery: Ken Burns Gets Lost in a Bermuda Triangle
Scientists have long been puzzled by the frequent disappearance of ships in the Bermuda Triangle. In his new Holocaust documentary, filmmaker Ken Burns has managed to make the entire Bermuda Conference on Refugees vanish.
Read More »Ken Burns Scrutinizes America’s Role During the Holocaust, With Mixed Conclusions
Ken Burns discusses his new series, "The U.S. and the Holocaust," which will air on PBS on three consecutives nights, starting this Sunday, September 18.
Read More »America and the Holocaust: A Filmmaker’s Perspective
As the producer and director of a PBS film on America’s response to the Holocaust some years ago, I was at first delighted to learn that Ken Burns has now likewise made a film for broadcast on PBS about how our country responded to the Nazi genocide. But some advance publicity for the broadcast raises questions as to whether his film will accurately portray key issues such as U.S. refugee policy and the failure to bomb Auschwitz.
Read More »“The U.S. and the Holocaust” to Premiere September 18, 2022 on PBS
THE U.S. AND THE HOLOCAUST, a new three-part documentary directed and produced by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, explores America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises in history. The series will air September 18, 19 and 20, at 8:00-10:00 p.m. ET (check local listings) on PBS, PBS.org and the PBS Video app.
Read More »Column: Whoopi’s Petty Distinctions
Silly sideshows dominate much of the news on Israel and other Jewish and general issues. So much so that keeping up with them amounts to “posing problems that would cross a rabbi’s eyes,” to quote Tevye as he croons “If I were a rich man” in the musical “Fiddler on the Roof.”
Read More »No Place on Earth: An Incredible Story of Strength and Survival
World caver and explorer, Chris Nicola, shares the incredible story of how five Jewish families survived the Holocaust by taking refuge in a cave for nearly a year and a half - the longest uninterrupted, underground survival experience on record.
Read More »Photography Legacy Project of Survivors Comes to Boulder
Denver couple John and Amy Israel Pregulman have made it their mission to photograph as many Holocaust survivors as possible, before it’s too late. They will be in Boulder on February 20th.
Read More »Holocaust Exhibit at BJCC Draws Over 2,000 Visitors
The Holocaust by Bullets exhibit focuses on the mass shootings of Jews throughout Eastern Europe by the Nazi mobile killing units from 1941 to 1944.
Read More »Buddhist Jew’s Spiritual Journey into the Holocaust
Early on in Ellen Korman Mains’s compelling account of her spiritual journey as the child of survivors to make sense of the Holocaust, she observes the irony that one schooled by Buddhism to live in the present could make it her life’s work to grapple with demons of the past. Author talk at Boulder Book Store in January.
Read More »November First Friday at Bonai Shalom: Geneology and Holocaust Survivors
Join Congregation Bonai Shalom on November 2, 2018 for First Friday, A Holocaust Journey: The Search for Family
Read More »Meet My Rabbi, Bring Your Dog – Thursday at Bonai Shalom
Rabbi Jonathan Wittneberg will be in Boulder from London this week and will be talking about two of his amazing books on Thursday at Bonai Shalom.
Read More »Author, Dog Lover, Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg Comes to Bonai Shalom
On April 26, Rabbi Marc Soloway's personal Rabbi, Jonathan Wittenberg will come to Bonai Shalom to speak about two books he has written, "Things My Dog Has Taught Me About Being A Better Human" and "My Dear Ones, One Family, and the Final Solution".
Read More »New Children’s Book Explains the Holocaust Through a Child’s Eyes
"Music of the Butterfly: A Story of Hope" allows children to view life through Renee's eyes-a child living through the Holocaust who remained hopeful of a brighter future.
Read More »#Jewish Lives Matter
My grandson was born in 2017, during quite extraordinary times --- and 100 years after his late great grandfather, about whom this book was written. The question arises… How can we prepare my grandson’s generation to deal with their century from how Harry Greissman and his “Greatest Generation” lived through their extraordinary century?
Read More »Remembering the 70th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg doctors’ trial where 20 Nazi physicians were brought to account for heinous crimes against humanity.
Read More »Opinion: Worse than Kapos?
Rabbi Marc Soloway considers what it means today to be called "worse than kapos" for holding -- and expressing -- fairly mainstream opinions in the public market of ideas.
Read More »History Still Refuses to Judge Holocaust Rescuer Rudolph Kasztner
Visiting Haifa University Professor Zach Levey returns to the Boulder JCC to discuss the infamous trial of a man who rescued 1,684 Hungarian Jews.
Read More »The Magic Continues… Along with Morocco and More
Check out some of the upcoming Menorah programs around Magic, Morocco and Art and the Holocaust. (But not all of those at the same time.)
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