Stories about "Holocaust"
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Bates professor Sonja Pieck authors award-winning book about German conservation, memory, and wounded land
Friday, April 19, 2024 4:30 pm
Sonja Pieck’s book "Mnemonic Ecologies," about the once-militarized inner German border becoming a Green Belt, tells a story of how "something healing could come out of the pain."
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Q&A: ‘Chasing Portraits’ brings Rynecki ’91 full circle, back to Bates
Thursday, November 7, 2019 2:34 pm
“It’s full circle,” says Elizabeth Rynecki ’91, “which is fabulous.” A rhetoric…
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Judith Magyar Isaacson ’65, LL.D. ’94, dies at age 90
Thursday, November 12, 2015 12:27 pm
She was an educator, author, champion of equal opportunity for women, and a human-rights advocate whose passion was forged by her experiences in the Holocaust.
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Jewish family history, hands-on health care in Africa motivate 2013 Phillips Student Fellows
Friday, January 31, 2014 12:47 pm
Rachel Baumann '14 and Asha Mohamud '15 sought to understand experiences outside the U.S. that had changed the lives of people close to them.
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Senior weaves extraordinary family history with investigative look at Germany during Holocaust, and now
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 8:08 am
Rachel Baumann discusses her grandparents' travails during the Holocaust, and offers insights into wartime history and the roles of humanity and faith, on Nov. 15.
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Finder of rare Auschwitz photos to speak
Monday, November 7, 2011 8:52 pm
Ann Weiss, who discovered at Auschwitz a cache of photographs from the lives of Jewish victims before they arrived at the death camp, speaks at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 14, at the Edmund S. Muskie Archives.
Vecsey reads Holocaust memoir sequel by Isaacson '65
Sunday, March 1, 2009 10:23 am
Last winter, Judith Isaacson '65, LL.D. '94 got to hear her own words during a reading at the Lewiston Public Library by Katalin Vecsey, who read selections from Isaacson's Seed of Sarah, a memoir published in 1990 that recounted her Holocaust experiences at the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Hessisch Lichtenau concentration camps.
Katalin Vecsey reads from acclaimed memoirs of Judith Isaacson '65
Friday, February 6, 2009 3:37 pm
Katalin Vecsey, a member of the Bates College theater faculty, reads from the writings of Holocaust survivor Judith Magyar Isaacson '65 in a free public event.
Holocaust survivors to speak at Bates
Tuesday, August 7, 2001 4:16 pm
Several Holocaust survivors will discuss their experiences at the 11th annual Holocaust Human Rights Center of Maine’s summer seminar, Teaching the Holocaust: Implications for the 21st Century, at Bates College Aug. 5-10.
Judith Magyar Isaacson concludes Spiritual Journeys series
Thursday, March 18, 1999 12:56 pm
Judith Magyar Isaacson, Holocaust survivor and author of "Seed of Sarah: Memoirs of a Survivor," will discuss "Return To Auschwitz: How To Forgive" from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 7, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall. The public is invited to attend the Spiritual Journeys lecture at Bates without charge. Call 207-786-8272 for more information.