The Holocaust

Eschewing feel-good bromides in favor of messy authenticity, "The Black Balloon" is a tough-minded coming-of-age drama. At the center of the Australian independent film is 15-year-old Thomas, who as the son of a career army man is adjusting to yet another...

'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" is the most heartbreaking film about the Holocaust since "Schindler's List." That Mark Herman's film of John Boyne's novel manages such poignancy in 93 compact minutes is miraculous. Like "The Diary of Anne Frank," this...

Welcome to the 'hood Re “The wrong turf,” Opinion, Nov. 16 After reading Matthew DeBord's article, I almost started crying. Poor guy, why must life be so hard on this proponent of gentrification? Why can't all those taco and churro-eating...

The story of a troubled teenager rises from the pages of Sherman Alexie's novel "Flight" and onto the stage at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts on Monday. Presented in collaboration with the American Place Theatre in New York City, it is the...

An Illinois foundation has acquired a rare collection of World War II postal documents, including letters from concentration camp inmates. The Holocaust memorial exhibit, called "The Nazi Scourge: Postal Evidence of the Holocaust and the Devastation of...

We have a vast palette of words that attempt to express our downcast moods -- "a funk," "the blues," "the doldrums." All of them abstractions, euphemisms we employ in an effort to pinpoint something elusive -- a sensation that might be a shade less than...

Since her father died 13 years ago, Rosemarie Courbois has been on a nonstop mission to learn about her relatives -- dead or alive. "My mother died when I was 7, and my father never really talked about her family," says the 64-year-old Patchogue...

Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens The museum is at 633 Osceola Ave., Winter Park. Hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1-4 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $5 adults, $4 seniors, $3 students, free for members and ages 11 and younger. Free...

In Atlanta's William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, there is a life-size mock-up of the D. Haver grocery store, a Jewish-owned market that served customers in the city for many years. Kids can do their own shopping, with faux food items and toy shopping...

Art Exhibit –January 1 through March 31. "Firsts in Delray Beach" sponsored by The Spady Museum and the Delray Beach Historical Society. $12, memers; $15, non-members. Delray Beach. 561-279-8883. Art Exhibit – through January 25. Al Ashley...

Imagine you're walking down Michigan Avenue when a madman in soiled pajamas and a tinfoil Viking hat strides up. He hands you a photocopied cartoon of an ogre with a Star of David on his chest. The creature is devouring a baby. You speed up. So does...

ON NEW YEAR'S day, the European Union swelled by another 28 million people. The inclusion of Romania and Bulgaria in the European fold is cause for celebration in the streets of Bucharest and the courtyards of Sofia. For two of Europe's poorer countries,...