Renee Ghert-Zand

2 months ago | timesofisrael.com | Renee Ghert-Zand

The SS Marine Flasher was the first ship to bring Holocaust survivors and displaced persons to the United States after World War II. The seven Weber siblings were among the 867 refugees who sailed on the ship’s first crossing in May 1946 from Bremerhaven, Germany, to New York. The immigrants’ emotional arrival at New York Harbor was captured on film. However, the children, ages six to 17, drew particular attention from reporters and news photographers.

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Interview'Domestic life was thoroughly destroyed in the Holocaust' Nonfiction ‘Four Red Sweaters’ tells wartime stories of four young Jewish women while examining larger questions such as Nazis’ circular economy and perpetrator psychology Lucy Adlington’s new work of narrative nonfiction traces the fates of four red sweaters and the teenagers and young women who either made or wore them during the Holocaust. Charting the sweaters’ journeys allows the clothes historian and author to unravel...

Mar 25, 2025 | qoshe.com | Renee Ghert-Zand