Holocaust
“Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz”: A Graphic Family Memoir, with Ari Richter
22 Elul 5784 (24/09/2024) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How did Ari’s experience visiting Auschwitz differ from what he had expected?
Ari Richter is a New York-based visual artist and comics creator, born in Tampa, Florida, … Leer más
“Whistleblowers”: Fighting to Expose the Holocaust in America, with Rafael Medoff
27 Sivan 5784 (02/07/2024) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Where did Josiah DuBois work and what brought him into contact with what was happening in Nazi Germany?
This week we are bringing you a new graphic … Leer más
The GI’s Rabbi: World War II Letters of David Max Eichhorn, with Mark Zaid
20 Sivan 5784 (25/06/2024) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How did a Yom Kippur service in 1944, led by Rabbi Eichhorn, help U.S. military intelligence?
Mark S. Zaid is an American attorney, based in Washington, D.C., … Leer más
Ordinary Jews Resisting Nazi Persecution, with Wolf Gruner
22 Nisan 5784 (30/04/2024) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How did Wolf first discover that there were individual Jews who resisted Nazi persecution?
Wolf Gruner is a German academic who has been the Founding Director of the … Leer más
Yale’s Fortunoff Archive and Songs from Testimonies Project
19 Adar I 5784 (27/02/2024) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Why is a French boy scout song included in this collection?
In 1979 the Holocaust Survivors Film Project began taping the testimonies of survivors and witnesses in … Leer más
Guy Stern: “Ritchie Boy” and Renowned Holocaust Scholar
14 Shevat 5784 (23/01/2024) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What two things does the International Institute of the Righteous do?
(Guy Stern, a German Jewish refugee who was one of the last known surviving members of … Leer más
Warsaw: A City Divided, with Director Eric Bednarski
29 Tevet 5784 (09/01/2024) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How many markers are there in the streets of Warsaw that indicate where the Ghetto was?
Eric Bednarski is a film writer, director, producer, and archival researcher. … Leer más
The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, with Nina Siegal
12 Iyyar 5783 (02/05/2023) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: When was Nina’s article about the diaries published in the New York Times, and why did it have an unusual kind of resonance among its readers?
The Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum, with Nora Gaón
27 Nisan 5783 (18/04/2023) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Where in Israel is the Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum located, and how is it different from Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum?
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act … Leer más
Historical Implications of the Holocaust, with Dr. David Silberklang
21 Nisan 5783 (11/04/2023) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What were three Jewish political movements that were active in pre-World War II Eastern Europe?
(Yom HaShoa, Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day, is on April 18 this year. … Leer más
The Mauthausen Memorial, with Curator Christian Dürr
29 Adar 5783 (21/03/2023) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How many names and dates of people who perished in Mauthausen are now known?
Centro Sefarad-Israel, together with the Secretaría de Estado de Memoria Democrática (Spanish Secretary … Leer más
Solomon Perel: “I Was Hitler Youth Solomon” (Europa Europa)
16 Shevat 5783 (07/02/2023) | Jorge RozemblumENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What were the last words of advice that Sally Perel’s parents gave him, and did he follow that advice?
(On February 2, 2023 Solomon Perel passed away at … Leer más
George Sherman: “We discovered Mauthausen”
3 Shevat 5783 (24/01/2023) | Jorge RozemblumENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: When the 11th Armored Division of the American Army discovered the Mauthausen concentration camp in May, 1945, how many Spanish prisoners did they find there?
On … Leer más
Silent Tears: Poetry of Holocaust Survivors Set to Music
15 Heshvan 5783 (08/11/2022) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Why did Dan Rosenberg decide to translate the poems into Yiddish before setting them to music?
Dr. Paula David is a gerontologist and social worker in … Leer más
Lenka Lichtenberg’s THIEVES OF DREAMS: Poetry from the Holocaust
13 Av 5782 (09/08/2022) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How many of Lenka’s grandmother’s poems talk about the situation of the Jews in the concentration camps?
Lenka Lichtenberg is a musician, composer, and producer. She was … Leer más
The Sousa Mendes Foundation: An Update
8 Sivan 5782 (07/06/2022) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How many different countries did recipients of Sousa Mendes visas come from?
Aristides de Sousa Mendes was the Portuguese consul-general in the French city of Bordeaux during … Leer más
Jewish Partisans (II): Sephardic and Women Partisans
22 Adar I 5782 (22/02/2022) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What percentage of Jewish partisans were women and how were they treated?
(This is the second in a three-part series about the Jewish partisans … Leer más
Jewish Partisans (I): The Bielski Group
15 Adar I 5782 (15/02/2022) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Why did the Bielski partisan group take in everybody, including elderly people and children?
There is a common myth that during the Holocaust Jews passively went to … Leer más
Aristides de Sousa Mendes: Portuguese Righteous Among the Nations
24 Shevat 5782 (25/01/2022) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Who is helping to fund the restoration of Sousa Mendes’s house in Portugal, and what will the house be used for?
On January 27, Europe commemorates … Leer más
Patricia Martínez de Vicente: La Clave Embassy
19 Av 5781 (27/07/2021) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What was Eduardo Martínez Alonso’s profession and how was he able to use it to save thousands of people from the nazis during World War II?
(This … Leer más
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ACTUALIDAD
Especial noticias 21/11/2024
20 Heshvan 5785 (20/11/2024) | Jorge Rozemblum
NOTICIAS CON COMENTARIO A DOS – Aunque ayer anunciábamos la llegada a Israel del enviado estadounidense para lograr una tregua con Hezbolá, Amos Hochstein, ésta aún no se ha producido a la hora de grabar esta entrega con … Leer más
CULTURA
“El silencio. El inicio de tu camino espiritual”, con su autor Gonzalo S. Rey
20 Heshvan 5785 (20/11/2024) | Raquel Cornago
SEFER: DE LIBROS Y AUTORES – “En el silencio, crece tu libertad. La amalgama de pensamiento-sentimiento-emoción, te atrapa” afirma Gonzalo Simón Rey al presentar su obra literaria más reciente “El silencio. El inicio de tu camino espiritual”. … Leer más
VIDA JUDÍA
Dedicado a Violeta Friedman
20 Heshvan 5785 (20/11/2024) | Raquel Cornago
SHOÁ AHORA – “Qué la historia se siga contando y no se olvide”. Patricia Weisz, presidenta de la Fundación Violeta Friedman, hija de Violeta, nos presenta a la joven estudiante de arqueología Isabel Ruiz Peñato, de 19 años. … Leer más