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Amanda Wachtel. Georg Cohn. Regina Blumenstein. Flora Wilmersdorfer. Werner Stein. You’ve probably never heard of these people. Each of them, from the giggling toddler to the elegant lady, were murdered in Auschwitz after their 1939 ship to safety, the St. Louis, was turned away from American ports. But a brilliant project that launched Thursday night, […]

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The year was 1935, and Willy Rosen – a popular Jewish cabaret singer in Berlin – was performing a fun new song called, “At the Golden Snail Inn,” which he recorded in the basement of a synagogue for a Jewish recording label called Semer Records. Three years later, on Kristallnacht, the Nazis destroyed all of Semer’s […]

You may have seen it: YOLOCAUST, a short-lived online gallery that transformed Holocaust-themed glamour selfies into historic scenes of horror, complete with corpses. Shahak Shapira, the Israeli artist behind the project, wanted to draw attention to the unsettling phenomenon of young people mugging for their iPhones at Auschwitz and at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial. But if you haven’t seen the […]

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