Archive - Sep 2009

It is our pleasure to provide you with an expanded biography and the full Shoah Foundation interview of Itka Zygmuntowicz.
View her biography.

Being Jewish in France, written and directed by Yves Jeuland, documents the history of French Jews from the period of the Enlightenment, when they were declared free, equal "brothers" to the virulent anti-Semitism of the Dreyfus affair and the stain of the Vichy regime's treatment of Jews.

Hotel Rwanda (2004), directed by Terry George is based on the true-story events surrounding the heroic efforts of Paul Rusesabagina (played by Don Cheadle), an assistant manager at the Mille Collines international hotel in Kigali, Rwanda to save 1268 friends, neighbors and fellow countrymen caught up in the middle of the bloody genocide.

Harvard University's student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson, accidentally published an advertisement that questioning the reality of the Holocaust on Tuesday September 8th, 2009. Originally rejected during the summer for publishing, the advertisement apparently "fell through the cracks" but Crimson President Maxwell L.

A new book by Natan P.F. Kellermann, PhD, Project Development Director at the National Israeli Center for Psychosocial Support of Holocaust Survivors and the Second Generation (AMCHA), presents a comprehensive and new overview of the long-term psychological effects and treatment of Holocaust trauma.

The United States Senate unanimously passed Resolution 111 on April 23, 2009 to officially recognize that June 6, 2009 was the 70th anniversary of the United States refusing entry to the M.S. St. Louis passenger liner which carried 937 passengers.

"It is 30 seconds to midnight." This sentence says it all within the context of Holocaust studies. As Holocaust survivors age and pass away, their stories are taken with them to the grave. However, another side of this are aging witnesses to the Holocaust horrors who often stood by as mass killings took place.