Tag: Auschwitz

  • Nation & World

    In Germany, learning while seeing

    The Harvard Summer Program in Freiburg, Germany, seeks to broaden the outlook of 20 Harvard students, each of whom is paired with a German student from the University of Freiburg, though a combination of classroom teaching, excursions to important sites in the region, and exposure to the town and its people.

    11 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘The Choice’ premiere

    Written approximately 20 years after Elie Wiesel was freed from imprisonment in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps, “The Choice” is having a staged reading at Sanders Theatre on Sunday. It marks a premiere for the recently rediscovered work.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Filmmaker who bore witness to Holocaust

    A cinema legend’s advice on making films about unspeakable war crimes: “Go to see the killers.”

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Evolution of ‘final solution’

    Child victim of Nazi medical experiments recounts the horrors, in opening an exhibit that explores how physicians embraced the thinking and practices that became the Holocaust.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Passionate advocate of human rights

    Canadian Supreme Court judge, child of Holocaust survivors, argues passionately that nations should value human rights over simple laws, and that the United Nations should step up.

    5 minutes