NYT: Italian Praised for Saving Jews Is Now Seen as Nazi Collaborator Information about Giovanni Palatucci, celebrated for saving Jews, is being removed from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in light of evidence that the tales may be untrue. Centro Primo Levi here at the Center for Jewish History “stated that a research panel of more than a dozen scholars who reviewed nearly…
Out of the Archives: “The Ritchie Boys”by Kevin Schlottmann, Levy Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History Werner Erwin Stark (1921 – 1995) was born in Munich, Germany, into a Jewish family of textile merchants. Together with his older brother Walter, he escaped to the United States via France in 1938. During World War Two, Stark enlisted in the US Army and was trained in…
Professor Devin Naar was recently named to the Center for Jewish History’s Academic Advisory Council. This interview with him was originally published on StroumJewishStudies.org, the website for the Stroum Jewish Studies Program at the University of Washington, and is reposted here with permission. ———— Telling Untold Stories: Sephardic Jews & the Holocaust Prof. Devin Naar, whose interest in Sephardic Holocaust history led him on…
Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April 19, 1943)On its Seventieth Anniversaryby David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish History In April of 1943, news of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising reached the Vilna Ghetto, and Hirsh Glick wrote the song “Zog Nit Keyn Mol”(“Never Say”). It soon spread not only throughout the Vilna Ghetto, but also to other ghettos and concentration…
Nearly 25 percent of research inquiries performed at the Center for Jewish History have been related to the study of the Holocaust. The Center’s librarians produce monthly reports on patrons’ research activities, and requests for Holocaust-related items are often at the top of the list. In 2007, the Center completed Holocaust Resources: An Annotated Bibliography of Archival Holdings at the Center for Jewish History,…
Prof. Devin Naar (of the University of Washington’s Stroum Jewish Studies and History Departments) recently joined the Center for Jewish History’s Academic Advisory Council. In this video, he explains the twist of fate that led him to piece together his own family’s experience in the Holocaust. His journey led him to the serious study of Ladino (Judaeo-Spanish) and a new perspective on the stories…
On the 68th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitzby David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish History On January 27th, 1945, Auschwitz was liberated by the Red Army. The desolate, disease-ridden and mosquito-infested complex comprised the largest of the Nazi concentration camps. Over a million people were murdered there. When the Nazis learned of the Red Army’s approach, they attempted…