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Museum of Jewish Heritage spotlights Holocaust survivor's pro-soccer career during World Cup

The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York will show an installation following the life of Jewish pro-soccer player and Holocaust survivor Paul Mahrer just in time for the World Cup.

 Museum of Jewish Heritage is closed during the coronavirus pandemic on April 30, 2020 in New York City.
Eylon Levy holding Dan Auerbach's yellow star from Nazi-era Europe. Tel Aviv, January 26.

'It is impossible to believe, but it happened': Holocaust survivor recalls childhood in Nazi camps

Dita Kraus 'Librarian of Auschwitz'

Holocaust survivor and 'Librarian of Auschwitz' Dita Kraus dead at 96

Second generation to Holocaust survivor light a remembrance candle at the camp

How a daring Holocaust-era decision can serve as a precedent for haredim today - opinion


Sidney Taussig: The Holocaust survivor from Home One who saved history

Because of Sidney Taussig’s bravery in saving Vedem, his story and the stories of the other boys of Home One continue to be told.

 SIDNEY TAUSSIG in the documentary, ‘The Boys of Terezin.’

Letters to the Editor February 1, 2023: Home that I love

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

 Letters

Lessons on antisemitism, anti-Zionism, the Holocaust at Theresienstadt

EUROPEAN AFFAIRS: Officials and Jewish leaders gathered in Prague and Theresienstadt to discuss fake news, conspiracy theories and antisemitism.

 THE ENTRANCE TO Theresienstadt.

Where our families come from: Jewish Holocaust history

On a July morning, I found myself with my six Israeli daughters in a tiny German village outside of Bad Mergentheim, Germany (where I lived until the age of four).

 BERTA FROEHLICH, matriarch of a prestigious German Jewish family in Bad Mergentheim, with the youngest of her 12 children, Geta, pre-World War II.

'Into The Light': Concert tribute to Nazi-persecuted composers

“Into the Light” will take place on August 11 (6 p.m.) at the Dan Wassong Auditorium of the Yitzhak Rabin Building on the Hebrew University’s Mount Scopus campus.

 AUSTRIAN COMPOSER-CONDUCTOR Franz Chreker was known for his aesthetic plurality timbral experimentation and extended tonality.

Beit Theresienstadt exhibit combines art, Holocaust survivor testimony

A stirring exhibition combining artwork and survivor testimony opens at Beit Theresienstadt on International Holocaust Remembrance Day,

 SHAHAR SIVAN’S emotive woodcut triptych catches nonagenarian Holocaust survivor Eva Erben in a variety of expressions.

A musician’s project sheds new light on artistic life in the Terezín concentration camp

A new book reveals how one prominent musician thought about music at the camp at the time, offering fresh insights into the complicated nature of life in Terezín.

 Detail from "Entertainment," a drawing of the Terezín concentration camp by Bedřich Fritta, from 1943. Collection of Thomas Fritta Haas.