Travel and Food

By Oleksandr Feldman KIEV, Ukraine — More than 70 years after World War II, one would think that few secrets remain from what might be the most heavily researched and examined period ever in world history. Each year, however, historians uncover new elements to the scope of horror that defined this era – and in

By John Brennan BUCHENWALD, Germany — The unspeakable horror, the ignored cries of pain, and the unimaginable suffering. The final resting place for more than 50,000 innocent souls. This was Nazi era Germany: This was Buchenwald, the death camp infamous for performing medical experiments on its inmates. Its place in history marked by being the

By David Amos SAN DIEGO — two films which were part of the first San Diego German Film Festival on October 22 and 23 at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park. were absorbing, entertaining, and certainly worth my recommendation for you to pursue. The first film was titled Alamanya, Welcome to Germany. It

By John Brennan COSTA BRAVA, Baja California, Mexico — I am originally from San Diego but lived in Los Angeles to fulfill my need to be an actor when I could find the work. I have been on many film sets and have had the opportunity to talk to many interesting people. As you probably

By David Amos SAN DIEGO — How many times you have heard people say, “Don’t give away the ending; it will spoil it for me.” They could be referring to a novel, a film, or a television episode. You may have expressed this yourself to others. There was an interesting article I recently read about

SAN DIEGO — Sometimes, it’s not the license plate, but the bumper sticker which attracts Jewish interest, as our occasional correspondent Harry Jacobson-Beyer found out on his West Coast vacation swing.   This bumper sticker sounds a bit like a well known television commercial.  Do you think perhaps they were milking the joke?

Conversations with My Ancestors by Andrew Sanders; Gefen Publishing House; 308 pages; no price listed. By Norman Manson SAN DIEGO–Genealogical research has become all the rage in recent years, aided by such institutions as the Mormon church, which possesses vast files of ancestral information. Family trees, going back several generations, have sprouted in abundance, including

Fourth in a series LUBLIN, Poland — A group of about 20 survivors and 2Gs (Second Generation) took a trip out of Warsaw and into the countryside. It was 8 a.m., and Agneishka S. was our guide. We didn’t know what to expect and so we girded our loins for what we knew was going