After surviving Auschwitz and reuniting with her husband, Czechoslovakian-born Gizel Berman immigrated to the United States in 1948. The couple settled first in Kansas and later in Seattle, where Berman studied art and began sculpting. She is best known for her bronze, which can be found in many locations in the northwest, including the Mercer Island Public Library. In 2008, Berman’s work was the subject of a posthumous exhibition at the West Valley Art Museum in Surprise, Arizona.
Piotr Rawicz’s Blood from the Sky is without question the most forceful of recent novels written about the fate of Jews in Nazi Europe. There has been rare critical unanimity in this respect. To find…
The soldier-artist Raphael Avraham Shalem used found objects, such as shell cases, as the material for his artworks. On this shell casing, he engraved a view of Rachel’s Tomb, a site revered by Jews…
This modern synagogue in Plauen (in the Saxony region) was one of the few synagogues built in Germany in the economically turbulent years of the Weimar Republic. Jews and non-Jews contributed funds…