The CU and broader publics are invited to a talk by the renowned German-Jewish historian Prof. Dr. Michael Brenner ...

On May 10, 1933, university students in 34 university towns across Germany burned over 25,000 books. The works of Jewish authors like Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud went up in flames alongside ...

In Poland, of the 3.3 million Jews living there in 1939, only about 300,000 survived. Around 560,000 Jews lived in Germany in 1933, the year Adolf Hitler came to power.

Benjamin Hirsch was born in September, 1932, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, just 5 months before Hitler came to power. He was the fifth of seven children of Dr. Hermann Hirsch, a dentist, and Mathilda ...

As high-profile symbols of the "Jewish press," the couple was persecuted and fled Germany in 1933. The Nazis seized the family's assets, including the artwork.