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October 25: Sir Martin Gilbert and the Holocaust
Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill (about whom he wrote 30 books!) and an important historian of the Holocaust and Jewish resistance to Nazism, was born in London on this date...
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December 17: The Allied Powers’ Statement on the Holocaust, 1942
The United Nations, a confederation of the Allied Powers during World War II, issued its sole statement on the Holocaust on this date in 1942 — three years before the founding of the international body...
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January 19: Goodbye, My Friends
“Goodbye, My Friends,” the final column by humorist Art Buchwald, was published by the Washington Post on this date in 2007, two days after his death from kidney failure at 81. “I chose to spend my...
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January 29: Paddy Chayefsky
Sidney “Paddy” Chayefsky, the only solo writer to have won three Academy Awards for Best Screenplay — for Marty (1955), The Hospital (1971), and Network (1976) — was born in the Bronx on this date in...
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Doing Business with Hitler
Koch Was Not Alone in Aiding the Nazi War Machine by Dusty Sklar JANE MAYER’S RECENTLY PUBLISHED Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, is causing a...
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February 27: German Wives Protest
Memorial at the Rosenstrasse site today On this date in 1943, the Nazi Gestapo began arresting more than 10,000 Jews in the city of Berlin. Those who were intermarried (primarily men) and some children...
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March 8: The Father of Video Games
Ralph H. Baer, an American refugee from Nazi Germany who became an electronics inventor who conceived of playing games on television screens as early as 1951 and helped to pioneer their creation in the...
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March 23: The Red Army Photographer
Yevgeny Khaldei, a Jewish Red Army photographer who took the iconic photograph of a Soviet soldier raising a Soviet flag above the German Reichstag at the end of World War II (published in the magazine...
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May 11: Turning Post-War Germany into a Giant Farm
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., who operated a Christmas tree farm neighboring the New York State estate of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and became U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in 1934, was born in New York...
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Wednesday Night Fiction: Ta-Da!
A SHORT STORY by Marilyn Ogus Katz from the Summer 2016 issue of Jewish Currents I DRAG the Victrola on to the porch, put the big black disk on the turntable and the needle into the first groove. When...
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