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Monument for murdered Jews from The Hague (City of The Hague)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Jun 2016
According to Mayor Jozias van Aartsen it is important to be able to remember them in a dignified way in the heart of the former Jewish quarter in The Hague....

A Delight for Music Lovers, Spa Seekers and Foodies

Edit Rhapsody 06 Jun 2016
Ruin pubs are a trend in Budapest in which enterprising would-be bar owners set up shop in abandoned buildings throughout the old Jewish Quarter neighborhood, most of which was an unattended wasteland following the ravages of WWII ... art openings, co-working space, and provides a general locus for social activism and Jewish religious ceremonies....

Susan Faludi: getting to know my father, the woman

Edit The Guardian 04 Jun 2016
My father and I had barely spoken in a quarter-century ... I knew he was born and raised Jewish in Budapest, and was a child of privilege ... I visited her numerous times over the next 10 years, and we walked together only once through Budapest’s Jewish quarter, site of the infamous and murderous wartime ghetto, and then only on the way to her favourite wiener schnitzel restaurant ... That I could live as not myself but as a non-Jewish person....

Venetian Ghetto’s last witness to Auschwitz

Edit Financial Times 25 May 2016
Virginia Gattegno, 93, on how she survived the Nazi death camp and why it is vital to preserve Venice’s historic Jewish quarter ... ....

East West Street by Philippe Sands review – putting genocide into words

Edit The Guardian 22 May 2016
A compelling family memoir intersects with the story of the Jewish legal minds who sowed the seeds for human rights law at the Nuremberg trials ... Chased away by one of the regular outbursts of antisemitism (the Jewish quarter was burned down in 1918) and his inability as a Jew to take the law exams, Lauterpacht left for Vienna in 1919....

Dutch Holocaust museum exhibits Jeroen Krabbe paintings

Edit Seattle Post-Intelligence 16 May 2016
Entry to the exhibition is via a ticket costing 15 euros ($17), which also gives access to a group of museums and other sites in what is known as the Jewish Cultural Quarter including the Jewish Historical Museum, the Hollandsche Schouwburg, Jewish ......

First national Holocaust museum slated to open in the Netherlands

Edit Denver Post 16 May 2016
The location of the museum, a former teacher training school in the heart of Amsterdam's old Jewish quarter, is a small but hugely significant ray of light in the dark history of Jews in the Dutch capital during World War II. Some 600 Jewish children were spirited to safety via the ......

Berlin vs. Budapest

Edit Huffington Post 16 May 2016
The Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag (advance booking needed, but free! You can also book to have breakfast there on the rooftop), the GDR museum , the famous Currywurst museum, the Berliner Dom, the Holocaust Memorial, the Jewish museum, Mauerpark (go on ... Budapest - head to the rich and magnificent Jewish Quarter to find small courtyard restaurants....

A conversation with Lisa Unger (Tess Gerritsen)

Edit Public Technologies 04 May 2016
(Source. Tess Gerritsen). Wednesday, May 4th, 2016 @ 11.35 am. New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger is one of my favorite thriller writers ... Ghosts, Guns and Dark Places. ... Lisa Unger ... That day I wandered around Venice and ended up in the old Jewish quarter ... That's when both parts of the novel came to me - a story about a 1930s Jewish composer whose haunting melody will nearly destroy the life of a woman violinist 70 years later....

17th century Jewish slum unearthed in Amsterdam

Edit The Jerusalem Post 24 Apr 2016
Bordering on the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam, the slum was inhabited by hundreds of people living in squalor and extremely crowded conditions ... ....

In Damascus, an uneasy stability boosts Syria's Assad

Edit Tampa Bay Online 23 Apr 2016
In Damascus, it is easy to forget the war ... The bazaar, like the rest of Damascus, has changed in the past few years ... In Bab Touma, a mainly Christian quarter of Damascus' Old City popular with tourists before the war, a Hezbollah fighter searches vehicles at a checkpoint ... Mustafa Ali, a sculptor and founder of an art center in Damascus' Jewish quarter, hosts Syrian children who learn dancing, drawing and ceramics every Saturday ... ___ ... ....

Bad Day at Black Rock: A Savage Score for a Great Film About American Hate

Edit CounterPunch 22 Apr 2016
In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s big win in the New York Primary this past Tuesday, the electoral map—in the color scheme adopted by the —was a giant red dessert ... The Trump sandstorm gathers force as the last drop is drunk ... Spencer Tracy as John J ... water ... Previn had come to Hollywood with his family as a ten-year-old, fleeing Berlin’s comfortably middle-class, largely Jewish quarter of Schöneberg in 1939 at the last possible moment ... ....

‘Game of Thrones’ puts this Spanish city on the map

Edit New York Post 19 Apr 2016
Here are eight spots not to miss. Girona Cathedral. Photo ... The Jewish Quarter ... It’s a perfectly preserved medieval jewel; however, nothing from its centuries as a Jewish community remains — their synagogues, hospital and schools were reclaimed after the Spanish expulsion of the Jews in 1492. But relics of Jewish life in Girona and other parts of Catalonia in the Middle Ages can be seen in the three-story Museum of Jewish History ... J ... ....
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