Hommage à Martin Gray
Survivant de la Shoah et témoin des plus infâmes barbaries perpétrées au XXe siècle par des hommes, Martin Gray est décédé le 25 avril en Belgique à l’âge de 93 ans. Nous avons eu l’auguste privilège de l’interviewer lors de son dernier passage au Québec. Voici le fruit de notre conversation à l’été 2012 avec cet homme admirable au destin hors du commun.
A snapshot of a lost prewar Polish Jewish community
Discovering a vibrant Jewish community in a Polish town in August of 1938, just three months before Kristallnacht and one year before the onset of the war
BACKSTORY: Dreyfus – From Devil’s Island to Auschwitz
Alfred Dreyfus: an innocent soldier caught in the greatest political convulsion since the French Revolution
Associated Press cooperated with the Nazis: study
The AP was the only international news agency allowed to continue to operate in Germany, until the United States entered World War II in 1941
BACKSTORY: Stalin and Hitler at the movies
It was in their infatuation with moving pictures as tools of propaganda and self-aggrandizement that Hitler and Stalin’s narcissism converged perfectly
Lawmakers march alongside Nazi Waffen SS veterans in Latvia
Several hundred ultranationalists, including seven veterans of Nazi Germany’s Waffen SS, marched through Riga on the independence day of the Baltic nation of Latvia
Canada to review case of former Nazi death squad member
Helmut Oberlander has been fighting to retain his Canadian citizenship since 1995
BACKSTORY: The enigmatic Franz von Papen and the crystal vase
No Weimer-era politician played a greater role in placing the crown of tyranny on the brows of Hitler than Franz von Papen
Canadian Holocaust survivors testify in Nazi trial
The CJN speaks to Nazi hunter Thomas Walther and Holocaust survivor William Glied, 85, currently in Detmold, Germany for the trial of former SS Nazi guard Reinhold Hanning
Debut author draws on family’s wartime experiences
“I didn’t write a novel about the Holocaust but about post-Holocaust trauma and mostly about reconciliation,” states Renate Krakauer about her debut novel, Only By Blood
