Darkness & light: Holocaust survivor flourishes in Kalama as artist, memoirist

Darkness & light: Holocaust survivor flourishes in Kalama as artist, memoirist

KALAMA — When he was a 14-year-old kid in postwar Holland who’d already endured more horrors than most adults ever dream of, Johannes Krane pursued a second chance at childhood by running away with the circus.

Holocaust survivor recounts escape from Nazis in Gainesville talk - Now Georgia

Holocaust survivor, George Rishfeld, speaks during a presentation at the Gainesville Civic Center on Sunday, July 26, 2026. (Joshua M. Peck/NowGeorgia.com) GAINESVILLE, Ga. — George Rishfeld of Johns Creek, all 87 years of him, gave a lively talk in Gainesville Sunday afternoon. You might call the mere fact that he appeared at all a miracle; some 95 percent of the 3.3 million Jews in pre-war Poland, where Rishfeld was born, were murdered by the …