On 27 January, the world commemorates an important and tragic anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Officially ...
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How yizkor books bring the sights, sounds, and even smells and tastes of lost Jewish shtetls back to life
Rye bread, sour milk, and maybe some herring — for a poor Jew, these were the makings of a meal. The Jews I have in mind were ...
Olga and David Hruba (pictured at left, and center) at a menorah lighting ceremony on the first night of Hanukkah in Dnipro. Credit: David Hruba photo The following article was submitted by the New ...
Through historical research and careful sound design, the Lost Shtetl Museum uses immersive audio to reconstruct the daily rhythms, and ultimate demise, of shtetl life.
A remarkable scene in Ady Walter’s film Shttl takes place in a Jewish Ukrainian village outside of Kiev on June 21, 1941, one day before the Nazi invasion, known as Operation Barbarossa. The Rebbe, ...
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