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Inside Hana's Suitcase

Paulette Cooper, With Help From the Voice, Discovers Her Heartrending Past

In December, I finally got the chance to meet Paulette Cooper when we had breakfast near the offices of the Voice. For many of us who toil in this business of reporting on Scientology, we have no greater hero. Paulette's 1971 book, The Scandal of Scientology, was one of the first exposes of the chur ... More >>

In Heaven Underground: The Weissensee Jewish Cemetery

In December, I finally got the chance to meet Paulette Cooper when we had breakfast near the offices of the Voice. For many of us who toil in this business of reporting on Scientology, we have no greater hero. Paulette's 1971 book, The Scandal of Scientology, was one of the first exposes of the chur ... More >>

Mossad Retiree Helen Mirren Can't Escape Her Nazi-Catching Past in The Debt

In December, I finally got the chance to meet Paulette Cooper when we had breakfast near the offices of the Voice. For many of us who toil in this business of reporting on Scientology, we have no greater hero. Paulette's 1971 book, The Scandal of Scientology, was one of the first exposes of the chur ... More >>

"Summer Shorts" Exposes Its Briefs

It's Program B of the one-act mini-fest at 59E59 Theaters

Ilonko Krauss, Holocaust Survivor, Hit by Minivan

​The local Fox News television reporter puts it like this: "To survive the worst of the worst -- a Nazi death camp! -- and then 70 years later, you're crossing this little street in Queens and you get struck by a car... Well, that's what happened this morning." Basically. Ilonko Krauss was hit ... More >>

Culture Clash Fail in The Names of Love

​The local Fox News television reporter puts it like this: "To survive the worst of the worst -- a Nazi death camp! -- and then 70 years later, you're crossing this little street in Queens and you get struck by a car... Well, that's what happened this morning." Basically. Ilonko Krauss was hit ... More >>

Fateless

​The local Fox News television reporter puts it like this: "To survive the worst of the worst -- a Nazi death camp! -- and then 70 years later, you're crossing this little street in Queens and you get struck by a car... Well, that's what happened this morning." Basically. Ilonko Krauss was hit ... More >>

An Expert on Nazi Doctors, Robert J. Lifton Makes His Case

​The local Fox News television reporter puts it like this: "To survive the worst of the worst -- a Nazi death camp! -- and then 70 years later, you're crossing this little street in Queens and you get struck by a car... Well, that's what happened this morning." Basically. Ilonko Krauss was hit ... More >>

The Little People

A big story told in a small way

Quick hits

A pajama-clad Manhattan woman who jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday is recovering from hypothermia in Bellevue today after Police Department divers jumped from a helicopter and pulled her out of the East River. The Times has an interview with the divers -- The Arbeit Macht Frei (Work wil ... More >>

Holocaust Survivors Face Eviction in Four Seasons Lodge

A pajama-clad Manhattan woman who jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday is recovering from hypothermia in Bellevue today after Police Department divers jumped from a helicopter and pulled her out of the East River. The Times has an interview with the divers -- The Arbeit Macht Frei (Work wil ... More >>

As Seen Through These Eyes

A documentary about the creative impulse that sustained many young prisoners of World War II concentration camps

Is Auschwitz The New Disney World?

​Madonna has announced that when her "Sticky & Sweet" tour hits Poland, she just might take her four kids on a day trip to the Auschwitz concentration camp to remind them how very lucky they are.

Week in Review: Do Not Go to Siren Fest Hungover!

Look, it's a member of Das Racist eating food. Photo by Sam Horine.  In the week we spent the early hours of recovering from Siren Festival--highlights of which were many and varied and included a photo of Das Racist daring to eat a type of food the duo doesn't rap about--we were officially and ... More >>

Yes In My Backyard: Download Werewolves' "Dora Gerson" MP3

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing new and emerging MP3s from local talent. Recently, we've given you the Beets' "Don't Fit In My Head" and the exclusive video for Motel Motel's "Coffee" Brooklyn's Werewolves brandish psych textures like weapons. Black Mountaineers without the ... More >>

New Life For Chicken Slaughterhouse?

Courtesy Times-Picayune A Chicken Empathy Museum sounds like an upscale showcase for all the young boys molested by a certain pop star. But that's not at all what we're talking about here! We're talking about how, when a Pilgrim's Pride poultry processing plant in Farmerville, Louisiana was announc ... More >>

Landscape After Battle

Courtesy Times-Picayune A Chicken Empathy Museum sounds like an upscale showcase for all the young boys molested by a certain pop star. But that's not at all what we're talking about here! We're talking about how, when a Pilgrim's Pride poultry processing plant in Farmerville, Louisiana was announc ... More >>

The Memory Thief: The Least Sentimental Holocaust Film Ever

Too bad about the whole lack-of-coherence thing

Horniness Meets Horror in Stalags

Doc explores Israel's Holocaust s&m lit. Also, Tehilim gets lost in Jerusalem.

The Corrections

Serious injury—or at least a dirt stain—threatens on a tour through three anti-art shows

The Poetry of Decay

Live accompaniment for Bill Morrison's avant-garde collage

Matters of Life, Death, and Art

From shivah to Shoah, the 16th annual Jewish film fest doesn't shy away from the big questions

Trial and Terror

In the face of Iran's Holocaust denial conference and contemporary desensitization comes this startling German doc

Books

In the face of Iran's Holocaust denial conference and contemporary desensitization comes this startling German doc

Ghost World

Quietly audacious, Hungarian cinematographer's debut is the most existential of Holocaust films

Speaking the Unimaginable

Discreetly, Antony Sher presents Primo Levi's life in Auschwitz, but is discretion enough?

Homeland Insecurity

The whole megillah: Crossing the globe, Jewish films examine immigration and identity

B.-ing There

In Nobelist Imre Kertész's Liquidation, the Holocaust isn't inexplicable—it's a given

Jew vs. Jew vs. Mel

Have Jewish Critics of The Passion of the Christ Actually Fueled New Anti-Semitism?

The Searchers

Ethiopian Jews, Holocaust survivors, Lacanian psychobabblers, and a downtown bra shop

Broken Blossoms

A Chabrolian genealogy: from a twisted family tree, something wicked this way returns

Access of Evil

A Chabrolian genealogy: from a twisted family tree, something wicked this way returns

Film

A Chabrolian genealogy: from a twisted family tree, something wicked this way returns

The IBM Link to Auschwitz

Researchers Uncover Records of the Company's Work at Death-Camp Complex

Biographer in Love

Researchers Uncover Records of the Company's Work at Death-Camp Complex

Final Solutions

How IBM Helped Automate the Nazi Death Machine in Poland

Two for Love

How IBM Helped Automate the Nazi Death Machine in Poland

Fables of Reconstruction

How IBM Helped Automate the Nazi Death Machine in Poland

A Girl’s Life

How IBM Helped Automate the Nazi Death Machine in Poland

Dream On

How IBM Helped Automate the Nazi Death Machine in Poland

The French Collection

How IBM Helped Automate the Nazi Death Machine in Poland

Paradise Lost and Found

How IBM Helped Automate the Nazi Death Machine in Poland

Leaps of Faith

How IBM Helped Automate the Nazi Death Machine in Poland

Leaps of Faith

How IBM Helped Automate the Nazi Death Machine in Poland

Shoah Business

Lisa Kron Tells Her Father’s Story of the Holocaust

Tourist Trapped

Lisa Kron Tells Her Father’s Story of the Holocaust

Bring Us the Old People

Lisa Kron Tells Her Father’s Story of the Holocaust

A Jewish Saint

Lisa Kron Tells Her Father’s Story of the Holocaust

Nazi Business

Lisa Kron Tells Her Father’s Story of the Holocaust