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Henry S. Dorfman’s Story of Survival by Becca Gallick-Mitchell of InstaGrandma’s Kitchen
By: Becca Gallick-Mitchell – Friend of the HMC My name is Becca Gallick-Mitchell, and I’m a third generation Holocaust educator, recipe developer/blogger, and the founder of the InstaGrandma’s Kitchen website…
My Story – George Erdstein
By: George Erdstein, Holocaust Survivor – A Matter of Luck My parents, Berthold and Ida Erdstein, were both born in Vienna. Drafted into the Austrian Army at the age of…
Q&A with Atina Grossmann on Jewish Refugees in India and Iran
By: HMC Editorial Staff – On June 27, 2021, we listened to Atina Grossmann, Professor of History at the Cooper Union in New York City, discuss the Jews who escaped…
BOOK REVIEW: “The Ratline: Love, Lies, and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive”
By: Alan Gershel, Volunteer Docent – One of my colleagues in our docent training class, who was aware that I was a former prosecutor with an interest in the Nuremberg…
Your Membership Gift Has The Power To Overcome Prejudice And Hatred
By: Justin Bean, Membership and Data Manager – The Holocaust Memorial Center plays a unique role in our community. Each year, thousands of students and adults from all walks of…
Artifact Spotlight: MS St. Louis Sailor’s Hatband
This uniform hatband came from a sailor who served on the MS St. Louis. This artifact is on display in the Rise of Nazism Gallery at the Holocaust Memorial Center.…
“D-Day, Normandy, and Beyond,” Frank Everard’s collection of personal stories from Veterans and Victims
By: Frank C. Everards, Operator and oral historian of D-Day, Normandy and Beyond – The Zekelman Holocaust Center was pleased to invite Frank Everards to write a blog post about…
Whose story is being told?
By: Mark Mulder, Exhibitions Curator – Recently, I have been paying attention to a growing national fascination with true crime documentaries, shows, and podcasts. It has become so popular that…
A Cry for Tomorrow
By: HMC Editorial Staff – Dr. David Weinberg, many years a member of the Holocaust Memorial Center, was first introduced to Berry Nahmia at a synagogue in Athens, Greece, at…
Berlin’s Jewish Hospital
By Dr. Stuart Falk, Volunteer Docent The survival of 800 adults and children in WWII Germany at Berlin’s Jewish Hospital is the subject Daniel Silver’s book Refuge in Hell: How…
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
By: Michael Leibson, Volunteer Docent – January 27, 2021 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The date was chosen because it was the date in 1945 that Auschwitz was liberated. However,…
My Story – Bernard Klisman
By: Lori Ellis – Bernard (Benek) Klisman was born on December 12, 1923 to Raizel and Moshe Klisman in the city of Sosnowiec, Poland. He was 1 of 8 children,…
The Anne Frank Lithograph – Our Hidden Treasure
By: Anne Donato, Ph.D, Education Specialist – There is an old saying…one man’s findings are another man’s treasure. And as I looked from my desk out into our library archives,…
A Menorah That Escaped The Anschluss
By: HMC Archival Staff – This brass Menorah (c. 1900), used during the Jewish festival of Chanukah, was brought to the US by Lili and Karl Kolb in 1938, shortly…
My Story – Rae Nachbar
By: Rae (Wygoda) Nachbar, Holocaust Survivor – Was it luck? I am a survivor from Pultusk, Poland. On Sept 26, 1939, the entire Jewish population of over 3,000 people was…
My Story – Sophie (Tajch) Klisman
By: Sophie (Tajch) Klisman, Holocaust Survivor – At the age of 88, I attended my mother’s funeral. I know I sound too old to be attending my mother’s funeral, but you…
Artifacts: Oh, the stories they can tell!
By: HMC Editorial Staff – The Holocaust Memorial Center is the repository of numerous Holocaust artifacts. They often have fascinating backgrounds from which we can learn important historical and ethical…
Face-To-Face: Rudolf Kasztner’s controversial negotiations with Adolf Eichmann
By: Michael Leibson, Volunteer Docent – The entire story of Rudolf Kasztner and his role in rescuing over 1,600 Hungarian Jews is quite complex. It also offers an extraordinary example…
My Story – Michael Weiss
By: Michael Weiss, Holocaust Survivor – My name is Michael Weiss. I am a Holocaust survivor. I was born in November 1924 in Kaszony, a little village in the Carpathian…
