Some Italian cities feel like they’ve been beautifully embalmed – preserved to be admired by the tourists who consume the gelatos, Aperol spritzes, refrigerator magnets, and rainbow-hued leather goods that support the local economies. Milan, on the other hand, is a working city – and the wealthiest one in Italy. It’s the home of…
Rose Girone, believed to be the oldest living Holocaust survivor and a strong advocate for sharing survivors’ stories, has died. She was 113. Girone spent the last decade of her life in an assisted living facility in North Bellmore, on Long Island, New York, according to Patch, a local news outlet. Rose Girone in an…
Holocaust survivors on bearing witness – CBS News Watch CBS News It’s estimated that of the 200,000 survivors of the Holocaust still with us, half will be gone in the next 5-7 years, which is why photographer Gillian Laub has been taking photos of as many Holocaust survivors as she can – more than 300…
It was a photo shoot like few others: those posing for the camera on this day in Miami aren’t fashion models, at least by trade. But they are models in their own way – models of courage, fortitude and grace, all formed in the crucible of the Holocaust. “It is something that we carry,” said…
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Eighty years ago on Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet soldiers liberated Auschwitz and uncovered the horrors of the Holocaust. The day now also known as International Holocaust Remembrance Day honors the six million Jews killed in the massacre, nearly one million of which were murdered at the Nazi death camp. It comes amid…
Brutalist, modern architecture have moment in the spotlight – CBS News Watch CBS News “The Brutalist” will be released nationwide next week. The film tells the story of an architect who survives the Holocaust and brings that unique building style to America. It’s not the only spotlight Brutalist and modern architecture is getting: The Trump…
German officials alluded that the country would not arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu per the International Criminal Court ruling due to the country’s Nazi history, The Telegraph reported on Friday. Several countries, including the United Kingdom, Italy, and the Netherlands, implied that they would arrest Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant after the…