University of Maine at Augusta history professor Robert Bernheim hoped bagel diplomacy could help repair some deep wounds left by the Holocaust.
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Poland holds state burial for more than 700 victims of Nazi Germany’s WWII massacres
Victims of mass excecutions were recently uncovered in the so-called Valley of Death in the country’s north.
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Oxford Hills students portraying young Holocaust survivors in play based on diaries
Free, public performances are at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21, and Saturday, Oct. 22, at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School.
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Holocaust survivor who escaped 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue massacre dies
Judah Samet was a Holocaust survivor who then escaped a shooting rampage because he was a few moments late for services.
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Students take on roles of teachers of the Holocaust
In “Under a Yellow Star,” students perform a compilation of the true stories of Holocaust victims in World War II.
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Kristallnacht’s 80th anniversary observed in Augusta
AUGUSTA — When the hammer struck the pane of glass, the crowd gathered Friday at the Michael Klahr Center at the Holocaust and Human Rights Center recoiled in their seats. The glass breaking was part of a remembrance organized for the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night in 1938 when the widespread and unchecked persecution […]
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L/A Arts hosts Holocaust remembrance programs
LEWISTON — A courageous woman’s testament to love, “Etty’s Song,” will be presented at 7 p.m. Friday, April 27, as the first of L/A Arts’ Holocaust remembrance programs. The program, featuring Off the Page, an ensemble of two poets and a musician, will take place at The Gallery, 221 Lisbon St. “Etty’s Song” is the […]
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Sen. Susan Collins says Trump administration made mistake in Holocaust statement
WASHINGTON — A Republican senator is criticizing the Trump administration for failing to mention Jews in a statement remembering the Holocaust. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said over Twitter that “The Administration’s omission of the Jewish people in a Holocaust remembrance statement is an historical mistake.” Trump administration officials have defended their statement, saying that […]
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‘Dilemma of Memory: Maine Artists and the Holocaust’ exhibit in Augusta
“The Dilemma of Memory: Maine Artists and the Holocaust” features works by photographer Judy Ellis Glickman; sculptor Robert Katz; painters George Mason, Leonard Meiselman, and Robert Moskowitz; printmaker, the late Dorothy Schwartz; and poets Tony Brinkley, Mark Melnicove, Anna Bat-Chai Wrobel, Lee Sharkey, and Martin Steingesser. This exhibit was the brainchild of Meiselman and HHRC […]