Holocaust Survivors are heroes to contest-winning students

Holocaust Survivors are heroes to contest-winning students

Despite schools closing their campuses and switching to virtual learning in March because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Holocaust Documentation & Education Center in Dania Beach was still able to award student winners of its annual “Olga & Eugene Guttman” and “A Simple Act of Kindness” visual arts and writing contests this year.

60 Minutes Presents: The Lost Music

60 Minutes Presents: The Lost Music

More than 6 million people, most of them Jews, died in the Holocaust. The music they wrote as a temporary escape, however, did not, thanks in part to the efforts of an Italian composer and pianist.

Jewish museums must persevere | Opinion

Jewish museums must persevere | Opinion

As a student of history and a museum enthusiast, I have spent a fair amount of shuttered hours during the pandemic visiting museums and checking off my must-see list. Virtually, that is!

Film Series: Berlin Calling

Film Series: Berlin Calling

A punk girl opens the paperwork the Nazis kept on her family and hears her father’s first hand account of being a child under Hitler’s oppression.

Film Series: A Promise to My Father

Film Series: A Promise to My Father

Re-trace the steps of Holocaust Survivor Israel Arbeiter as he returns to Poland and Germany for the final time to look for items buried in 1939 in the basement of his old home in Plock, Poland as the German army advanced.

Film Series: Olympic Pride, American Prejudice

Film Series: Olympic Pride, American Prejudice

In 1936, 18 African American athletes, dubbed the “black auxiliary” by Hitler, participated in the Berlin Olympic Games, defying Nazi Aryan Supremacy and Jim Crow Racism, history forgot all except one. This is the story of the other 17.