Tag: holocaust
Repost: Remembering the Holocaust on multiple days
Rocky Mountain JewJan 26, 2015
Tomorrow, January 27, is International Holocaust Memorial. While we in the United States and those in Israel mark this day in April, most of the rest of the world does...
Sid Shafner helped liberate Dachau
Andrea JacobsJan 22, 2015
Shafner, 93, is reading the newspaper alone at a corner table at Brookdale Mountain View. Sitting in a wheelchair, he blends into the crowd. No one would suspect that 70...
DU’s forward looking Holocaust memorial
Shana GoldbergNov 10, 2014
When we think of memorials, we don’t often think of movement. We picture permanent structures created to stand the test of time, as perpetual reminders of events past....
Holiday reading list, 5775
Rocky Mountain JewOct 03, 2014
We’ve all heard that classic joke aptly describing the Jewish holidays: You eat, you pray, then you eat some more. But what if you’re full? Or you need a break...
Life was ‘beautiful’ for optimistic survivor Alice Herz-Sommer
Rocky Mountain JewFeb 27, 2014
Scroll down for a trailer of the Oscar-nominated documentary about Alice Herz-Sommer, The Lady in Number 6 Earlier this week, Alice Herz-Sommer, the world’s oldest...
Remembering Kristallnacht…75 years later
Rocky Mountain JewNov 08, 2013
Seventy-five since Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, when Nazi stormtroopers and ordinary Germans rampaged throughout the Third Reich, spray-painting shop...
Hitler’s rise: ‘In the Garden of Beasts’
Rocky Mountain JewNov 01, 2013
As we have observed elsewhere on this blog, the enormity of the Holocaust, specifically the years where the policy of extermination was ruthlessly pursued, can eclipse...
‘I am Noah after the flood’
Rocky Mountain JewOct 04, 2013
Have you had a chance to pick up any of the books from our holiday reading list, published here on Rocky Mountain Jew? One of the aspects we most enjoyed […]
Holiday reading list
Rocky Mountain JewSep 18, 2013
Call us crazy, but sometimes we enjoy these three-day yontifs. There’s something almost indulgent in three days stretching before you, with very little on the agenda...
On this day: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Rocky Mountain JewApr 19, 2013
Seventy years ago today, on April 19, 1943, an uprising broke out in the forsaken streets of the Warsaw Ghetto. Earlier that year, the SS leader, Heinrich Himmler, had...
