Colleen Hammond | editor-in-chief Jan. 27, 2022 Aged black and white photographs faded across the screen as a pair of violins sung a haunting, mournful melody. A shopkeeper. A town doctor. A local hairdresser. A mother of young children. An aging father with a son away abroad. Almost eight decades after one of the darkest chapters of human history, members of the Pittsburgh Jewish and … Continue reading Remembering the Holocaust
Kellen Stepler | Editor-in-Chief 11/12/2020 Documenting the experiences of his father, a Kindertransport Holocaust survivor, David Hanauer presented a lecture titled “Experiencing Kristallnacht: Addressing Racism through Poetic Ethnography” Monday night as part of Duquesne’s 10th annual Kristallnacht Commemorative ceremony. Hanauer’s father, John Hans Hanauer, witnessed the events of Kristallnacht on Nov. 9-10, 1938 as a 9-year-old child. Kristallnacht, translating to “night of the broken glass,” … Continue reading Duquesne commemorates Kristallnacht in 10th annual ceremony
Raymond Arke | Editor-in-chief 08/30/18 History can often stay buried. However, one Duquesne professor is helping uncover the past surrounding one of history’s darkest moments. From July 11 to 24, Philip Reeder, dean of the Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, was part of a research group that discovered the grave site of the so-called “Anne Frank of Lithuania,” Matilda Olkin. Reeder got involved … Continue reading “Anne Frank of Lithuania” discovered
By Carley Thieret | Student Columnist When deciding which level English class I wanted to take my sophomore year of high school, I knew that I wanted to be overachieve and take the honors level course. I had no idea what I was getting myself into accepting that kind of workload. Every two weeks we had to pick a new book off of a selection … Continue reading Holocaust monument causes controversy in Hungary
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