In Chelsea, the drill hall of Pevsner's 'sturdy Tuscan portico' that fronts the 1801 Royal Military Asylum for the Children of Soldiers' Widows (more recently known as the Duke of York's) will open as the new permanent home of the Saatchi collection next month. - joh
Siegfried Halbreich was among the first Jews to be sent to the camps in 1939. Five-and-a-half years later, he was one of the few to emerge alive. He devoted the second half of his long life to public education about the horrors that Jews experienced during World War II. Halbreich died of heart failure Wednesday at his Beverly Hills home. He was 98. - joh
With words taken directly from interviews with survivors of the Holocaust, Kaddish is an innovative, engaging, and inspiring new work for chorus, soloists and chamber orchestra by Lawrence Siegel. - joh
Article in Slate by Blake Eskin, author of A Life in Pieces: The Making and Unmaking of Binjamin Wilkomirski about Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years by Misha Defonseca - joh
