Jewish American Heritage Month

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CALIFORNIA | LOCAL

April 26, 2014 | By Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times

Daniel Anker, an award-winning documentarian who used film to reexamine complex historical events, including Hollywood's portrayal of the Holocaust and a life-saving sled-dog run in Alaska, died Monday in New York. He was 50. The cause was pneumonia, a complication of his lymphoma, said his wife, Donna Santman. Anker made more than a dozen films during a 25-year career, including "Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust" (2004), "Music from the Inside Out" (2004) and "Scottsboro, An American Tragedy" (2000)

ENTERTAINMENT

March 13, 2014 | By Carolyn Kellogg

Ayelet Waldman's "Love and Treasure" (Alfred A. Knopf, $26.95, April 1) is a triptych novel that follows the lives of American and Hungarian Jews across the 20th century. A story of relationships, art and loss, it moves among a granddaughter trying to solve a puzzle, feminists in Budapest between the wars and European Holocaust survivors headed to Palestine. "When my book was being auctioned in Britain, one of the people who didn't bid on it said, 'This book is too Zionist for us.' And then my Israeli publisher, who did end up buying it, was like, 'Man, this is a really anti-Zionist book.' I got those responses the same day," Waldman says via Skype.

CALIFORNIA | LOCAL

March 12, 2014 | Frederick N. Rasmussen

Leo Bretholz, a Holocaust survivor who became a major voice in the campaign to gain reparations from companies that transported victims to concentration camps during World War II, died in his sleep Saturday at his home in Pikesville, Md. He was 93. Bretholz played a leading role in a campaign to require SNCF, the French railway system that historians have said conveyed 76,000 people to Nazi camps, to pay reparations to U.S. Holocaust survivors....

ENTERTAINMENT

March 5, 2014 | By Mike Boehm

Dismayed at how German authorities have handled a ballyhooed seizure of suspected Nazi-looted art, an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor from New York City is suing them for the return of a painting he says was stolen in the late 1930s from his great uncle in Germany. David Toren's suit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., alleges that the Federal Republic of Germany and the Free State of Bavaria have "perpetuate[d] the persecution of Nazi victims" by not expeditiously returning artworks they seized in 2012 from Cornelius Gurlitt, the elderly son of an art expert who was known for acquiring looted art for Adolf Hitler.

OPINION

February 26, 2014

Re "Among the oldest Holocaust survivors," Obituary, Feb. 24 Thank you for reporting on the passing of Alice Herz-Sommer, one of the oldest Holocaust survivors. I knew nothing about Herz-Sommer before seeing the Academy Award-nominated documentary," The Lady in Number Six. " I left the theater with tears in my eyes but with my heart inspired and uplifted by this remarkable woman. Despite circumstances that no human being should be forced to endure, her spirit still soared.

ENTERTAINMENT

February 26, 2014 | By Steven Zeitchik

Among the 25 or so awards to be handed out at Sunday's Oscars will be the prize for documentary short. One of the less recognized categories at the annual ceremony, the doc short field this year contains a certain newsworthiness because of the inclusion of one nominee, "The Lady in Number 6," about Alice-Herz Sommer, a pianist who was known for years as the oldest living Holocaust survivor. Herz-Sommer died several days ago at the age of 110, thrusting into the headlines a film and category few might have otherwise talked about.

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