Biblioracle: Joe Dunthorne explores his family’s history in ‘Children of Radium’

Biblioracle: Joe Dunthorne explores his family’s history in ‘Children of Radium’

It seems like every family has a bit of ancestral folklore, and Joe Dunthorne’s is better than most, a tale of his great-grandfather Siegfried spiriting his family away from Nazi Germany in 1935, followed by a 1936 return during the Berlin Olympics in which they made off with the contents of the home they left behind. The story begins to unravel as Dunthorne, a writer in search of a story and subject, interviews his grandmother who was part of t…

MAINTENANCE. Polish Jews, his parents were rescued from the Nazis by Oskar Schindler. Michel Friedman, a well-known personnalite in Germany, made memory and alert in a book and during this exchange.

Young dad reads emotional letter to brother who passed away 10 years prior on keeping his memory alive

Losing a sibling is a pain that never fully fades. Grief looks and feels different depending on the year, month or day, but keeping the memory alive of a lost loved one is a one way to keep healing. Eric (@kidds_dad) shared an emotional video with his followers on Instagram that he wrote to his older brother Reagan, who passed away 10 years ago. He details how he's worked to keep his memory alive for his kids in their daily lives, and how he sti…

My Grandfather Survived the Holocaust—Wearing His Jacket Helps Me Keep His Legacy Alive

On the 80th anniversary of Buchenwald’s liberation, one Vogue writer considers what it means to both wear her late grandfather’s jacket and carry on his story.

For the 80th time, the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp is celebrated. But in Thuringia, the AfD wants to change the culture of memory.

80 years after the liberation, traces of the former Buchenwald concentration camp are still visible on the Ettersberg near Weimar. Photographer Christian Rothe has documented them and is now publishing them as a picture book.