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Yale’s Fortunoff Archive and Songs from Testimonies Project

19 Adar I 5784 (27/02/2024) |

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  Why is a French boy scout song included in this collection?

In 1979 the Holocaust Survivors Film Project began taping the testimonies of survivors and witnesses in … Leer más

Guy Stern:  “Ritchie Boy” and Renowned Holocaust Scholar

14 Shevat 5784 (23/01/2024) |

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  What two things does the International Institute of the Righteous do? 

(Guy Stern, a German Jewish refugee who was one of the last known surviving members of … Leer más

Warsaw: A City Divided, with Director Eric Bednarski

29 Tevet 5784 (09/01/2024) |

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How many markers are there in the streets of Warsaw that indicate where the Ghetto was?

Eric Bednarski is a film writer, director, producer, and archival researcher.Leer más

The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, with Nina Siegal

12 Iyyar 5783 (02/05/2023) |

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: When was Nina’s article about the diaries published in the New York Times, and why did it have an unusual kind of resonance among its readers?

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The Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum, with Nora Gaón

27 Nisan 5783 (18/04/2023) |

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Where in Israel is the Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum located, and how is it different from Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum?

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act … Leer más

Historical Implications of the Holocaust, with Dr. David Silberklang

21 Nisan 5783 (11/04/2023) |

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  What were three Jewish political movements that were active in pre-World War II Eastern Europe?

(Yom HaShoa, Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day, is on April 18 this year.  … Leer más

The Mauthausen Memorial, with Curator Christian Dürr

29 Adar 5783 (21/03/2023) |

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How many names and dates of people who perished in Mauthausen are now known?

Centro Sefarad-Israel, together with the Secretaría de Estado de Memoria Democrática (Spanish Secretary … Leer más

Solomon Perel: “I Was Hitler Youth Solomon” (Europa Europa)

16 Shevat 5783 (07/02/2023) |

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What were the last words of advice that Sally Perel’s parents gave him, and did he follow that advice?

(On February 2, 2023 Solomon Perel passed away at … Leer más

George Sherman: “We discovered Mauthausen”

3 Shevat 5783 (24/01/2023) |

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: When the 11th Armored Division of the American Army discovered the Mauthausen concentration camp in May, 1945, how many Spanish prisoners did they find there?

On … Leer más

Silent Tears: Poetry of Holocaust Survivors Set to Music

15 Heshvan 5783 (08/11/2022) |

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  Why did Dan Rosenberg decide to translate the poems into Yiddish before setting them to music?

Dr. Paula David is a gerontologist and social worker in … Leer más

Lenka Lichtenberg’s  THIEVES OF DREAMS: Poetry from the Holocaust

13 Av 5782 (09/08/2022) |

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  How many of Lenka’s grandmother’s poems talk about the situation of the Jews in the concentration camps?

Lenka Lichtenberg is a musician, composer, and producer.  She was … Leer más

The Sousa Mendes Foundation:  An Update

8 Sivan 5782 (07/06/2022) |

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  How many different countries did recipients of Sousa Mendes visas come from?

Aristides de Sousa Mendes was the Portuguese consul-general in the French city of Bordeaux during … Leer más

Jewish Partisans (II):  Sephardic and Women Partisans

22 Adar I 5782 (22/02/2022) |

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  What percentage of Jewish partisans were women and how were they treated?

(This is the second in a three-part series about the Jewish partisans … Leer más

Jewish Partisans (I):  The Bielski Group

15 Adar I 5782 (15/02/2022) |

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  Why did the Bielski partisan group take in everybody, including elderly people and children?

There is a common myth that during the Holocaust Jews passively went to … Leer más

Aristides de Sousa Mendes: Portuguese Righteous Among the Nations

24 Shevat 5782 (25/01/2022) |

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Who is helping to fund the restoration of Sousa Mendes’s house in Portugal, and what will the house be used for?

On January 27, Europe commemorates … Leer más

Patricia Martínez de Vicente: La Clave Embassy

19 Av 5781 (27/07/2021) |

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What was Eduardo Martínez Alonso’s profession and how was he able to use it to save thousands of people from the nazis during World War II?

(This … Leer más

On Burning Ground: An Amazing Story of Survival, with Michael Skakun

22 Sivan 5781 (01/06/2021) |

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  When Joseph Skakun was working as a slave laborer for the Nazis, how did he hide his Yiddish accent from his Russian and Polish companions?

Michael Skakun, … Leer más

Dr. Joseph Toltz: Brundibar–Children’s Opera in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp

14 Shevat 5781 (26/01/2021) |

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How many times was the children’s opera Brundibar performed in the Terezin concentration camp?

On January 27, Europe commemorates Holocaust Remembrance Day. This date was chosen … Leer más

Guy Stern: “Invisible Ink” Made Visible

2 Kislev 5781 (17/11/2020) |

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  What two things does the International Institute of the Righteous do?

Guy Stern was born into a Jewish family in Germany in 1922.  At the age of 15 … Leer más

Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg: Remembering the Holocaust

17 Heshvan 5781 (03/11/2020) |

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  What characteristic do many children of Holocaust survivors have in common?

Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg was born in a DP camp in Germany, the only child of Holocaust … Leer más