Eva Schloss, nee Geiringer, thought her mother, whom she called Mutti, was killed because she was ‘selected’ by Dr Mengele (Dr Death) himself. While she was going through unimaginable grief and despair, some new prisoners with whom she had come...
At Birkenau concentration camp, Eva Schloss and her mother, Elfriede, whom she called Mutti, were selected to work in a workhouse called Canada, where they were to cut the lining out of the fur coats of the newly arrived prisoners. They were to...
The Gleaner met Alex Honegan recently at the Craft Craft Jamaica Pop-Up Craft Village inside the Lindo Auditorium at Campion College in St Andrew. There was a wide variety of items, made of sundry materials, on sale, but the items offered by...
If the name Angele Smith came up in a conversation, right away people would remember him as the Rising Stars alumnus who has been making a big name for himself in the local and international music industry. The man, who was born in Westmoreland, is...
Gestapo officers and their guards dragged Eva Schloss (nee Geiringer), her father Erich; her mother, Elfriede; and brother Heinz from their hiding places and brought them to a Gestapo headquarters in Amsterdam, where 15-year-old Eva, Erich and...
If you were not told before you saw Margaret Chen’s 12 pieces of artwork now on show at Olympia Gallery in Papine, St Andrew, you would stare in awe at how different they are and wonder what they are composed of. The pieces are being exhibited...
Eva Schloss (nee Geiringer), her father Erich, her mother Elfriede and her brother Heinz were an Austrian Jewish family hiding from the Gestapo (official Nazi secret police officers) in Amsterdam in the The Netherlands, to where they had fled from...
Eva Schloss, nee Geiringer, was born in Vienna, Austria, on May 11, 1929, in a Jewish family. Nine years later, on March 12, Nazi Germany annexed Austria. This annexation came to be known as the Anschluss. On September 1, 1939, World War II...
CeeJ Carpio went through the public-school system hoping to acquire a tertiary education, and he actually enrolled in one of our local universities. Yet, the young man originally from Waterford, St Catherine, met upon financial challenges, which...
The Holocaust of the Jews started almost immediately after Hitler gained power in Germany in January 1933. Jewish wealth was confiscated through punitive government fines. Shops and other businesses were vandalised or totally destroyed. The Jews...
On April 2 at The Jamaica Pegasus in St Andrew, Austria-born Eva Schloss, a Holocaust survivor, told her story to a capacity audience that listened in rapt attention. Her book, Eva’s Story, was also on sale. Schloss posthumously became the...
Ras Mel went to England on a personal matter, but he stayed 39 years, becoming a British citizen. From Britain, he took a trip to West Africa to learn about his roots and culture. In Ghana, he saw people extracting gold from the sea. Before that,...
At Robert Campbell’s place in Coffals district in Race Course, Clarendon, the signs of industry are everywhere – in his workshop, in his yard and in his house. For this artist, woodcarver, mould-maker and ceramicist does not subscribe to the notion...
Searching for answers to her religious questions and existence, Dorette Abrahams attended Unity of Jamaica for a while. The type of Christianity she found there was practical. Then, she heard that the founders of Unity, Charles and Myrtle Philmore...
On Tuesday, April 2, it seemed like the entire Jewish community in Kingston and St Andrew had gone out to see and hear Jewish Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss tell her story of inspiration. There were people from other parts of the island, and many...
A requiem is a mass for the dead, a funeral. It is also the name of Dr Courtney Hogarth’s one-man exhibition at the Olympia Gallery in Papine, St Andrew, from March 7-30. It is an exhibition of more than “30 paintings and drawings influenced by...
Eva Geiringer was born in Vienna, Austria, on May 11, 1929 in a Jewish family. Nine years later, on March 12, Nazi Germany annexed Austria. This annexation came to be known as the Anschluss. On September 1, 1939, World War II started when the...
Kenyan-Jamaican fusion artist Mazola Wa Mwashighadi is known for his assemblages, made of eclectic materials, some of which he has picked up from off the road. He takes what some people would regard as junk and scrap and turns them into engaging...
Rum, rum, rum it was everywhere. In bottles, in glasses, in cups, in punches, and in people’s guts. What else was to be expected when the event was billed a rum-fest? The ‘rum heads’ and wannabes came out in their bumper-to-bumper numbers with...
The Yorubas of Togo, Benin and southwestern Nigeria were one of the largest ethnic groups brought to the West Indies where they were enslaved on plantations. They were not allowed to take their material possessions with them, but their religious...
It could be the taste, the aroma, the perkiness that it stimulates, or a combination of all three, that has made some people slaves to coffee in all its diversity. While it races the heart for some, which is no fun; for others, it is what the...
It is long, and legendary. The valley through which it rushes and meanders is wide and gaping for the most part. It is full of so much life, and it has brought so much joy to visitors and locals. It is a place to swim, to fish, to be caressed and...
The Yoruba people of southwestern and north-central Nigeria and southern and central Benin had their own religious beliefs and practices long before the introduction of Islam and Christianity. They believe in a supreme God called Oludumare, who...
In rural Jamaica, the land of wood, water and rock, there is so much that nature has to offer: wood, leaves, grass, fronds, barks, seeds, shells, stones, clay, and mall.From these gifts of nature many things, such as necklaces, clothes, head wear,...
At Tapioca Village, Devon Pen, St Mary, on Saturday, December 29, for the third consecutive year Tall Tee Sports Foundation recognised and awarded former primary school students in southeast St Mary for their 'exceptional academic achievements'.The...
