The International Opera Theater, in association with the International House Philadelphia are proud to announce six performances of Brundibar and the Children of Theresienstadt from January 24-31 at The Ibrahim Theater

We are pleased to provide an updated and expanded biography of Michael Herskovitz. In addition, you can easily download his biography.
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The Holocaust Awareness Museum extended its Survivor Outreach program to sixth grade students at Visitation BMV School, Philadelphia, Tuesday morning, January 12, 2010. Ruth Hartz, Holocaust Survivor and Hidden Child, told her story to more than forty children at the invitation of Sister Dolores Egner, Principal and Emily Diefendorf, their teacher.

Ruth Hartz, Holocaust survivor and Hidden Child, spoke to a combined eighth grade class at Congregation Beth Am in Jenkintown, PA., Tuesday evening, Jan.12, 2010. Hartz was invited by teachers Cindy Band and Rachel Frankel to tell her story of survival and sacrifice. Ms. Hartz’s appearance was sponsored by the Holocaust Awareness Museum as part of its Survivor Outreach Speakers Bureau.

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Video clips of Kurt Herman, Ronnie Breslow, Hans Salomon, Michael Zal, and Hal Kessler have been added.

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Miep Gies, the woman who helped hide Anne Frank and her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands and who, later, safe guarded Anne's diary, has passed away at age 100.

"We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need."

via BBC News
via CNN

Katharina von Kellenbach, a Holocaust scholar and niece of an SS officer who oversaw the death of 30,000 Jews, returned to the Belorussian city of Pinsk.

via Aish

James von Brunn, the 89 year old murder suspect from the US Holocaust Museum shooting on June 10 has died in a prison hospital.

via CNN

A study at the University of Haifa in Israel compared more than 300,000 European Jews who emigrated before or during the war against those who left Europe after the war has concluded that Holocaust survivors, because of the extreme caloric deprivation, are at greater risk for cancer. According to the study, a majority of the survivors lived on 200-800 calories. In addition, the study also compared those with post traumatic stress disorder with lung cancer rates due to smoking.

via CNN