by finn ballard | Mar 28, 2019 | Blog
Historian and social worker Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum was executed in 1944, and his Archives of the Warsaw Ghetto documented a wealth of Polish-Jewish history as well as everyday life under Nazi occupation and its atrocities. Ringelblum assisted Polish Jews who were...
by finn ballard | Feb 28, 2019 | Blog
Irene Sendler, Polish social worker and one of the ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ named at Yad Vashem. Sendler was a member of the Warsaw Underground during Nazi occupation, and headed the department of Zegota (the Polish Council to Aid Jews) which aimed to...
by finn ballard | Dec 13, 2018 | Blog
This month, let’s meet Karlrobert Kreiten, a German-born pianist who held Dutch citizenship. Considered one of the most promising young musicians in Europe in the 1930s, Kreiten made his radio debut at the age of eleven, and would go on to study in Vienna and at...
by finn ballard | Nov 15, 2018 | Blog
This month’s hero is the lawyer Hans Litten, who represented political dissenters during the Nazi dictatorship. In 1931, Litten subpoeanaed Adolf Hitler as a witness in a trial of a group of right-wing thugs. For three hours, Litten rigorously questioned Hitler...
by finn ballard | Oct 18, 2018 | Blog
This month, let’s discuss Rosa Luxemburg, whose life was cut short by right-wing troops in early 1919. Born in 1871 into a Polish Jewish family, Luxemburg grew up to become a Marxist theorist, peace activist and revolutionary socialist who would go from the SPD...
