Donna Swarthout

Hardly a month goes by without news of a new project to document Holocaust history coming to my attention. Having spent much of my first decade in Germany digging into my family’s past, such projects are less likely to capture my attention these days. This changed late last year when I read about the Institute for German Jewish History’s Visualizing the Past – Creating the Future project. The Institute was reaching out to descendants of families that fled Hamburg in the 1930s.

It has now been widely reported that prior to the Maccabi – Ajax soccer game in Amsterdam one week ago, Israeli soccer fans tore down and burned a Palestinian flag, while others attacked a taxi.