MORNING EDITION WITH BOB SIMON AND ALEX VON OSS WASHINGTON, DC (NPR) Click here to listen (7 minutes)
RADIO TIMES WITH MARTY MOSS COANE PHILADELPHIA (NPR, WHYY 91FM) Ann Weiss talks about her rare and moving collection of pre-World War Two photographs that belonged to deportes to Auschwitz-Birkenau on WHYY 91FM (Philadelphia) with Marty Moss-Coane. The photographs are featured in her book The Last Album. She came across a hidden cache during a visit to the camp in the early 1980’s. Joining in are TOLA GILBERT and BEN HIRSCH who found images of friends and loved ones among Weiss’ collection.
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CHRONICLE, WCVB-TV, BOSTON View a story on The Last Album and Ann which appeared on the Chronicle News Magazine on WCVB-TV, Boston.
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Article appearing in the THE DENVER HERALD DISPATCH on February 25, 2010. Click on the image to view the full article.
Article appearing in the THE VILLAGER on February 25, 2010. Click on the image to view the full article.
Ann Weiss participated in the Global Human Rights Torch Relay, which took place at the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall in Philadelphia on May 3, 2008
Asked to speak from her perspective on the Holocaust, Ann emphasized the echoes of having said “Never Again” til her throat is raw. She continued, “This is the time, this is the place, we must be the generation who fights for justice until no innocent victim is left to stand alone, against the oppression, brutality and cruelty of a totalitarian government. As the Jews in World War II were abandoned by the world, we much not abandon these innocent people suffering so greatly by the actions of the Chinese governemtn. And let this be the time when we never say “Never Again” again!
This global torch event is being held in cities world-wide until the Beijing Olumpics.
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Ann at Cohen Hillel Academy, Swampscott, MA. April 13, 2008
Friends of the Hillel Library Benefit—Keynote by Ann Weiss, Fundraiser for the Cohen Hillel Academy, Swampscott, Massachusetts.
In addition to Ann’s keynote presentation, the evening featured a tribute to Survivor Abraham Rogozinski, and special honoring of L. P. Summers, of Atlanta, Georgia.
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May They Read to Be 120! March 27, 2008 - Michael Elkin, Arts & Entertainment Editor
Helping the Jewish Publication Society turn the page on 120 years in business are some of its locally based authors. Gathered at the Borders bookstores in Wynnewood (from left) are Ann Weiss (”The Last Album: Eyes From the Ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau”), Marsha Bryan Edelman (”Discovering Jewish Music”), Pecki Sherman Witonsky (”The Cave of Reconciliation: An Abrahamic/Ibrahimic Tale”), Deborah Bodin Cohen (”Lilith’s Ark: Teenage Tales of Biblical Women,” a 2006 National Jewish Book Award Winner), Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic (”The Dictionary of Jewish Words: A JPS Guide”) and Dan Ben-Amos (”Folktales of the Jews,” winner of a 2006 National Jewish Book Award.) Not pictured is Shelley Kapnek Rosenberg for her books “Raising a Mensch” and “Adoption and the Jewish Family: Contemporary Perspectives.” Luckily for all, George Costanza had his own artbook to keep him busy.
Ann Weiss speaks to World Congress of Russian Speakers at HIAS April 25, 2007. The following article appeared in the Russian edition of The Forward in May 2007.
It was an unusual session of the Permanent Seminar on Jewish Genealogy under HIAS auspices. This time the presenter was Ann Weiss, a child of the Holocaust survivors. In 1986, while she was participating in a special tour in Auschwitz, Ann found boxes with the pictures, which belonged to the Nazi’s victims. Trying to erase not only the lives but even the memory of the people the wanted to destroy, the executioners usually burned the personal holdings of their victims, that is the items they could not utilize. Twenty four hundred pictures were occasionally saved. Since this moment Ann Weiss changed the direction of her life. She decided to identify the people on these pictures and find those who survived. It was a task of a Herculean scale and this petit woman with a soft quiet voice a little bit louder than a whisper overcame thousands of obstacles to fulfill her goal. During the seminar she told the attendees, a group pf Russian Jews how she managed to identify 400 people. Ann showed the book The Last Album: The Eyes from the Ashes and a video. She later said that never before she had such a responsive and empathic audience. Naturally, the Russian Jews know something about suffering.
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The book has garnered a great deal of attention from the press. Newspaper reviews and articles in the US, Europe and in Israel have praised the book. Full reviews of the book can be seen in:
The Philadelphia Inquirer April 17th, 2001 Magazine section entitled “Holocaust: A Different Picture” by Alfred Labrano, Staff Writer Click here for excerpts.
The Jewish Week New York March 23, 2001 2nd Front-Bookmarks section entitled “The Photos They Carried” by Sandee Brawarsky, Jewish Week Book Critic. Click here for excerpts.
The Sun, Baltimore Maryland April 8th 2001 Arts and Society section entitled “Auschwitz Album: Snapshots of Lives Lived Well” by Carl Schoettler, Sun Staff Writer. Click here for excerpts.
The Jerusalem Post April 20th, 2001 Friday Books section entitled “Snapshots That Were Not Supposed To Be Seen” by Sam Orbaum. Click here for excerpts.
San Diego Union Tribune January 28th, 2001 Out of The Ashes: Photos Found in a Nazi Death Camp Are a Reminder of Life by Suzanne Choney, Editor Click here for excerpts.
The Chesapeake Bay Region B’nai B’rith Today May/June 2001 “Searching For Humanity Amid the Holocaust” by Geoffrey Gettinger, Contributing Writer.
Main Line Life, Montgomery County Newspapers of April 11-17th, 2001 entitled “To the Millions Whose Stories We Will Never Know” by Katie McDonald, Main Line Life Staff.
Boston Sunday Globe, Boston, Massachusetts Sunday January 28, 2001 Photo Essay appeared in the Boston Globe, entitled “Recovered Memories.”
Times Literary Supplement, London, England March 2, 2001 Photo of Artur, Grete and Peterle Huppert appeared in The Times Literary Supplement. Weiss has catalogued, and successfully identified, many of the photos.