United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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2013-04-05 00:00:00

Sunday, April 7 5K Annapolis Walk The Maryland Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society sponsors its 5K Annapolis Walk from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, 500 Taylor Ave. in Annapolis. Walk begins at the stadium and...

An opportunity to break free of Ticketmaster

2013-02-25 16:59:12

I thought Ticketmaster was the most hated company in America, but it turns out to have had some competition for that title in recent years. It lost last year to AT&T, Bank of America, Walmart and Electronic Arts, the maker of digital games. The...

Dr. Joseph Taler

2012-08-15 00:00:00

Dr. Joseph Taler, a retired Glen Burnie family physician who survived the Holocaust in Poland by not wearing his Star of David armband, taking a Christian surname, and hiding in a village, died Sunday of heart failure at his Annapolis home. He was 89....

Arthur Beneckson, psychologist

2011-10-14 08:41:00

Arthur Beneckson, a retired Baltimore County public schools psychologist and guidance counselor who was also a popular summer camp counselor for 30 years, died Oct. 4 from coronary artery disease at Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital. The...

'Living history' is making a comeback at some Maryland museums

2011-07-10 06:32:00

In the shadow of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia, John Wilkes Booth will tell anyone who'll listen just why that tyrant had to be assassinated. Supporting himself on a wooden crutch, a decidedly agitated Booth, his voice rising to match the fierceness in his...

The Interview: Aaron Greenfield, attorney for Holocaust survivors and families

2011-06-26 00:00:00

Baltimore attorney Aaron Greenfield's work representing Holocaust survivors and their families earned him an invitation last month to join a special committee of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Greenfield, special counsel in the corporate practice...

Kelley rankled USA Today as early as 1997

2004-01-16 00:00:00

More questions are surfacing about the veracity of articles written by former USA Today star reporter Jack Kelley. Kelley was forced to resign this month after he was found to have deceived editors during a long and ultimately inconclusive inquiry into...

Feds recover diary of notorious Nazi Alfred Rosenberg

2013-06-13 23:20:04

WILMINGTON, Del. His garden stroll with Adolf Hitler left Alfred Rosenberg invigorated. Rosenberg was already one of the most notorious and powerful Nazis, chief architect of ethnic cleansing policies and the man responsible for plundering billions of...

Teachers learn about Holocaust at summer institute

2013-06-11 10:57:32

One teacher was interested in the connection between music and the Holocaust. Another learned about the Holocaust from Jewish friends when they were growing up in Miami and wanted to learn more. And another teacher wanted to expand his knowledge about the...

Holocaust survivors, WWII vets pay tribute to one another

2013-06-09 18:04:00

Estelle Glaser Laughlin was only 13 when she and her family were taken to a Nazi death camp in Poland. Albert Wiener was a Jewish teen from Brooklyn drafted into the Army during World War II who hoped to end the persecution of European Jews. The two...

AFMDA names region's new director

2013-05-28 10:30:51

The Southeast Region of American Friends of Magen David Adom has a new director. Mark Glickman, a Boca Raton resident and a 35-year fundraising veteran with extensive Jewish nonprofit and private sector experience, became the regional director earlier...

Holocaust Museum turns 20 while eyewitness survivors dwindle

2013-04-29 08:35:00

Lauren Markoe writes for the Religion News Service about losing the generation of eyewitnesses to the Holocaust: WASHINGTON (RNS) The adult survivors of the�Holocaust are mostly gone now, and those who survived as children — and were old enough at...

Barbara Cohen, a holocaust survivor donates her childhood picture and the little vest she wore on the day of arrival at the United States, to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum after the tribute ceremony to honor World War II vets and Holocaust survivors in the Chicago area at Sheraton

2013-06-09 00:00:00

Alice Abrams, left, Bob Abrams, Dee Botnick and Barbara Bloch promote the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's annual "South Florida Luncheon," which will take place Jan. 28 at Boca West Country Club. The luncheon will feature keynote speaker Gerda Weissmann Klein, a Holocaust survivor.

2012-12-28 00:00:00

Angela Lacy, left, and John Lacy at the Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach's "FREADOM: Spectrum of Banned and Burned" event, which took place Nov. 7 at the library.

2012-12-10 14:02:00