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Turski survived the Lodz ghetto, where he and his family were forced to live, two death marches and imprisonment at the Nazi German concentration camps Buchenwald and Auschwitz-Birkenau ...
When banking magnate J.P. Morgan sought a librarian in 1905, his nephew Junius Morgan recommended Greene, who had been one of his co-workers at the Princeton Library. Henceforth, Greene’s life ...
“Just Because I am a Librarian doesn’t mean I have to dress like one.” With this breezy pronouncement, Belle da Costa Greene handily differentiated herself from most librarians. She stood ...
"Turski was born in 1926 in Druskieniki, in what was then Poland, he endured the unimaginable suffering of the Łódź Ghetto, the deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and the brutal Death March ...
As the grandchild of an Auschwitz survivor and the current director general of the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation, I think one would have expected our delegation to a ceremony marking the 80 ...
The Last Musician of Auschwitz tells the extraordinary story of cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, along with other victims of the camp - Jews, Poles and Roma - who played and created music amidst the ...
Her love for literature started as a child and it never stopped and now she's on track to become a librarian. Hunter graduates from North Carolina Central University with a Master of Library ...
That camp was Auschwitz. According to documents recently released by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and published on its website, Pieczka was a kapo – a prisoner functionary who was ...