Tag: German
‘Jews in Magic’: Reviving a 1933 history book by Guenther Dammann
New York Times business reporter David Segal tells the story of Richard Hatch, a physicist-turned-magician who works to revive the writing of Guenther Dammann, author of 1933’s Jews in Magic, who died during the Holocaust in 1942.
At 23,...
Last German honored as ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ by Yad Vashem dies
Gertrud Steinl, the last living German honored by Yad Vashem—the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem—for saving Jews during the years of World War II and the Holocaust, died on March 22 on the eve of...