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Stories Survive: Manfred Ohrenstein

Manfred Ohrenstein was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1925. He grew up under increasingly restrictive Nazi rules, holding his Bar Mitzvah at age 13 on the precipice of the Holocaust. In November 1938, less than a week before Kristallnacht, Ohrenstein and his family escaped Germany, made their way to London, and then found refuge in … Continued
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Painting the Holocaust: Remembering Alfred Kantor and His Sketchbook

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Ada Feingold’s Eyewitness Account of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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A Conversation with Helen Epstein about the Second Generation

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“The Light of Days” Book Talk with Judy Batalion and Molly Crabapple

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Stories Survive: Mark Schonwetter

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Remembering Olga Lengyel and “Five Chimneys”

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“Plunder” Book Talk with Menachem Kaiser and Stephanie Butnick

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Isabel Wilkerson and Rabbi Angela Buchdahl on “Caste”

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Stories Survive: Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff

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