The Forward

She’s found a new way to keep Holocaust stories alive — one step at a time

There’s a moment in Elie Wiesel’s “Night” that seared itself into Rachel Linsky’s consciousness in the spring of 2020. Wiesel and his family have just arrived at Auschwitz. Twice, Wiesel and his ...
Austin American-Statesman

How Ballet Austin is bringing Holocaust to 'Light' during time of rising antisemitism

It might be the most consequential dance ever produced in Austin. Respectfully and intentionally, "Light / The Holocaust & Humanity Project," first staged by Ballet Austin in 2005, tackled a subject ...
Forbes

Barak’s Memoryhouse At The Wallis: In Dance, A New Generation Encounters The Holocaust

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm a culture maven and arts enthusiast. This week marks the 80 th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration ...
Southeast Missourian

Holocaust survivor's dance sparks controversy

JERUSALEM -- He's a Holocaust survivor dancing with his family on what easily could have been his own grave. A video clip of Adolek Kohn awkwardly shuffling and shimmying with his daughter and ...
Hazleton Standard Speaker

The dance of the Holocaust: Filmmaker tells story of family’s survival

What are the dance routines inside a concentration camp? A guard shaking cigarette ashes on inmates. Inmates combing the ground for crumbs. A mother grasping toward her newborn, wrenched from her ...
KRON4

Controversy in Russia over Holocaust ice dance routine

MOSCOW (AP) — An Olympic ice-dancing gold medalist and her dancing partner have caused controversy by dressing up in concentration camp uniforms for a routine on a popular television show. Tatiana ...
Reuters

Holocaust survivor depicts Auschwitz experience through dance

BERLIN - Eva Fahidi, a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor, commemorates the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz with a dance performance about her years in the concentration camp. Fahidi performed ...