‘A Town Known as Auschwitz: The Life and Death of a Jewish Community’

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Click Here to Read: ‘A Town Known as Auschwitz: The Life and Death of a Jewish Community’ exhibit at Yiddish Book Center By Cori Urban on the Mass Live website on March 08, 2016.

Best friends Marta Swiderska (left) and Olga Pressler are shown in their uniforms on the first day of school in 1934. Olga was Jewish and Marta was Catholic.

Sholem Aleichem’s last appearance: Philadelphia, 100 years ago

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Click Here to Read: Sholem Aleichem’s last appearance: Philadelphia, 100 years ago by Andrew Cassel on the Philly.com website on March 3, 2016.

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Sholem Aleichem – whose Yiddish stories were literary and cultural guideposts for the many thousands scattered by the Great War – gave his last public reading 100 years ago in Philadelphia.

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