The Imperial War Museum in London has just opened Lee Miller: A Woman’s War which will run through April 24, 2016. The sterling reviews suggest it’s a show worth traveling…
A ‘defiant requiem’ seems a contradiction. But not when a chorus of 100 Jews interned at Terezin in 1944 sang Giuseppi Verdi’s ‘Messa da Requiem’ to their Nazi captors and…
The International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York has mounted ‘Roman Vishniac Rediscovered’ (through May 5). The title misleads. For the most part, Robin Cembalest reports on…
No matter how familiar the Shoah has become, no matter how it recedes into the past, it retains the capacity to surprise, to horrify anew. The title of Daniel Goldhagen’s…
This post started several hours ago. I had seen a note in the Boston Globe on an exhibit of photographs by Yousuf Karsh (‘Karsh of Ottawa’) (1908-2002) at the Armenian…
Looked at today through the lens of the Shoah, the thuggery of the pre-war Nazis seems as obvious as its signals of things to come. It wasn’t so clear to…