Tagged Lodz

The concentration camp currency you never heard of

Money: Some of the Holocaust money in the collection at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. (Courtesy of Clark University)
October 20, 2015 / Penny Schwartz, JTA

WORCESTER, Mass. (JTA) – In the 70 years since the fall of the Third Reich, the trappings of Nazi power have become infamous icons of evil — think of the swastika flag, the yellow badge or the striped concentration camp uniform. But have you ever heard of “Holocaust money,” the currencies that the… Read more »

Polish high school students taste Jewish life in Tucson
October 18, 2012 / Sheila Wilensky, AJP Associate Editor
Tucsonan Bill Kugelman, a Holocaust survivor from Poland, talks with Polish students Michal Kochanowski, Maciej Baranowski and Milena Adelt at the Tucson Jewish Community Center on Oct. 9. (Sharon Glassberg/JFSA)

Polish high school teacher Barbara (Basia) Matusiak wears a Star of David around her neck, although she isn’t Jewish. Matusiak was part of a non-Jewish Polish group that included 10 teens, two teachers and the principal of High School 15 in Lodz, Poland, who visited Tucson from Oct. 4… Read more »