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A Holocaust Hero Passes Away

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The other day, I was blogging about the movie The Pianist and how at the end, a Nazi officer actually helped Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman right before the war ends. There were many Holocaust heroes during that time – people who risked their own lives to save others. One of them, Irena Sendler, has just passed away recently at the age of 98. Irena was a Polish social worker during World War II. Irena began offering Jewish families food and shelter in 1939. Soon, her job as a social worker would allow her to help more Jews. Saying she was … Continue reading →

Potter’s Glasses Honor Holocaust Victims

Just file it under: the most unique way to reuse eyeglasses. Daniel Radcliffe, the young actor who played the bespectacled schoolboy wizard in the “Harry Potter” films, may never look at his first eyeglasses in the same way again. The 18-year-old just donated the glasses he wore as a child to a one-of-a-kind exhibition marking the horrors of the Holocaust. Radcliffe donated the tiny oval, gray metal-framed pair of glasses he wore as a 6-year-old to the exhibit where it joins specs belonging to Yoko Ono, talk show host Jerry Springer, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and other celebrities. … Continue reading →

The Cedar Post – Jack Rose

We’re told not to judge books by their covers. When you’re wandering through the stacks at a library, you’ve often judging books by their spines and most often by their titles. I don’t know why “The Cedar Post” jumped out at me, with its boring name and its innocuous pale green binding, but I’m so glad it did. It’s a work of fiction meant to teach a lesson, and it does it better than any other book I’ve read with the same goal. The story is centered on Jon, a teenaged boy growing up in Declo, Idaho, who feels discouraged … Continue reading →

Elie Wiesel: Twenty Years After the Nobel Prize

It was twenty years ago this month that Holocaust survivor, human rights advocate, and novelist Elie Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Although more commonly called Elie, he was born Eliezar in September of 1928 in the Transylvanian (now Romanian) town of Sighet. At the age of fifteen, barely more than a boy, he and his family were taken by the Nazis and incarcerated in one of the most infamous concentration camps, Auchwitz. His mother and younger sisters died while there. Later, Elie and his father were transported to another camp, Buchenwald. His father died in 1945, just missing … Continue reading →