In southwestern Berlin, in an area called Wannsee, there’s a beautiful old mansion. In 1942, SS…
I can’t get the naked girl out of my mind.
Her ribs jut out of her back. Her breasts are non-existent. She’s skin and bones and dark, arresting eyes that pierce the camera.
In Berlin, reminders of the past are everywhere. Pedestrians trip over “stumbling blocks” embedded…
Here is a people who are gone.
“The data is not enough”: That is how neuroscientist Tali Sharot describes the psychology of changing…
There Is No News From Auschwitz: Impressions from Visiting a Nazi Death Camp in 2017
We’re sitting around a table in Oswiecim, arguing over whether a journalist should or should not change the grammar of a quote. Would our audience know that “hooping on a Sunday” means playing basketball? Should we preserve different…
By Renee Gross
Arno Herzberg walked a thin line. As manager of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s Berlin bureau during the pre-war years, Herzberg constantly struggled with both the restraints of Nazi censorship and his desire to publish material that would maintain the morale…