Amy Weiner Weiss, our Director of Festivals and Adult Art Classes, has created an impressive list of artistic content to help observe Yom Ha’shoah (Holocaust Remembrance), Yom Ha’zikaron (Fallen Soldier Commemoration), and Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israeli Independence).
Yom Ha’Shoah Books:
Holocaust fiction: Cilka’s Journey (Tattooist of Auschwitz Book #2) by Heather Morris
Post-Holocaust memoir: I Want You To Know We’re Still Here by Esther Safran Foer
Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe by Rebecca Erbelding
Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler by Bruce Henderson
The Nazi Titanic: The Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II by Robert Watson
Jewish Aviators in World War II: Personal Narratives of American Men and Women by Bruce Wolk
Orchestra of Exiles: The Story of Bronislaw Huberman, the Israel Philharmonic, and the One Thousand Jews He Saved from Nazi Horrors by Josh Aronson
Yom Ha’Shoah Film/television:
- 1945 (DJFF 2018)
- Fanny’s Journey (DJFF 2017)
- The Last Laugh (DJFF 2017)
- Bye Bye Germany (DJFF 2018)
- Paradise (DJFF 2018)
- After Auschwitz (DJFF 2018)
- Sobibor (DJFF 2019)
