Category Archives: Holocaust

By Robert J. Avrech | August 1, 2016

Hidden Hollywood: Deanna Durbin and Ann Frank

Tweet There was a time when Hollywood stars gave hope to those victims who were trapped in the whirlwind of oppression, intolerance and genocide. Such a star was the radiant Deanna Durbin, who passed away in 2013 at the age of 91. Durbin (b. Edna Mae Durbin December 4, 1921 – c. April 20, 2013) […]

Also posted in Ann Frank, Deanna Durbin, Glamour, Hidden Hollywood, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography | Tagged Achterhuis, Ann Frank, Charles David, David Shipman, Fidel Castro, Greta Garbo, Hugo Chavez, Imperial Japan, Jeanine Basinger, Nazi Genocide, World War II | 12 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | May 6, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Actors, Art, Brigitte Bardot, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Cars, Hollywood Stars, Judaism, Painting, Photography, Star Ads, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Adriana Duque, Allan Ramsay, Brigitte Bardot, Carmen Herrera, Dore Gold, Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Hogan's Heroes, Humphrey Bogart, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Lee Remick, Marlene Dietrich, Michal Barat Koren, N. Jay Jaffee, Robert Clary, Sari Srulovitch, Teaneck Firehouse, Ty Cobb, Utamaro | 12 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 10, 2015

Tibor Rubin, Holocaust survivor and Korean War Medal of Honor recipient, dies at 86

Tweet Tibor Rubin has passed away. He was an authentic Jewish-American hero, a modern day Maccabee. Baruch Dayan Emet. Tibor Rubin, a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor who joined the U.S. Army out of gratitude for his liberation from the Nazis, then earned the Medal of Honor for heroism in the Korean War, died of natural causes […]

Also posted in America, Chanukah, History, Tibor Rubin, U.S. Army | Tagged anti-Semitism, Hungarian Jews, Jewish Heroes, Jews in Uniform, Korean war, Mauthausen, Medal of Honor, POW | 2 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 23, 2015

Friday Photos: Mood Board

Tweet This morning, after Daf Yomi, my friend turned to me and said: “Some week, huh?” I said: “It seems that every week is some week.” “Yeah.” On that downer, let’s try and alter the mood with some photos and stories.

Also posted in Friday Footwear, Friday Fotos, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jewish Photography, Livia Yarden, Maayan Ariel, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Nolan, Movies, Photography | Tagged art, Buchenwald, Desert Nights, Eddie Mannix, Elizabeth Taylor, Erich von Stroheim, I Was an Adventuress, Indian Cinema, John Singer Sargent, Lon Chaney, Mary Nolan, Peter Lorre, Richard Greene, Seeta Devi, shul, synagogue, Tekhelet, The Light of Asia, Two White Dresses, West of Zanzibar, Zorina | 19 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | May 21, 2014

The True Meaning of the Obama Spielberg Holocaust Party

Tweet Daniel Greenfield reminds us that Jewish history repeats itself with tragic consequences because so-called Jewish leaders are too busy marinating in their liberal pieties to notice that they are enabling the mass murder of their own people. Last summer, Obama had forced Israel to release the murderer of Isaac Rotenburg, an elderly Holocaust survivor who […]

Also posted in Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Islam, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Israel, Jew-haters, Jihad Watch, Obama Watch | Tagged Daniel Greenberg, Kim Kardashian, Steven Spielberg, USC Shoah Foundation | 10 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | May 12, 2014

Spielberg Honors Obama’s Lies About Jew-Hatred

Tweet Hollywood loves handing out awards. Once upon a time, Oscar was the only game in town. Then the Emmy appeared. Okay, I get it. Awards for movies. Awards for television. Makes sense. But now we are engulfed in an orgy of award ceremonies that render meaningless the achievement an award is supposed to signify. […]

Also posted in Hollywood, Islam, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Israel, Obama Watch | Tagged Arab Muslim Jew-Hatred, Hollywood Award Ceremonies, Lies, Shoah Foundation, Steven Spielberg | 9 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | April 28, 2014

Holocaust Remembrance Day, The Devil’s Arithmetic

Tweet In honor of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, I am posting my film, The Devil’s Arithmetic, starring Kirsten Dunst and Brittany Murphy. The film is based on the book of the same name by Jane Yolen.

Also posted in Brittany Murphy, Devil's Arithmetic, Holocaust Memorial Day | Tagged Holocaust Movie, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jane Yolen, Kirsten Dunst, Passover, The Devil's Arithmetic, Time Travel, Yom HaShoah | 4 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | April 8, 2013

Holocaust Memorial Day: Death March to Dachau

Tweet One of my closest friends here in Los Angeles is Mr. Sol Teichman, a prominent citizen, businessman, philanthropist, and a Holocaust survivor. Born on September 9, 1927, in the Hungarian town of Munkacs, Sol’s family were prominent and prosperous grain, bean and walnut merchants. The family lived in a lovely home in a quiet […]

Also posted in Holocaust Memorial Day | Tagged Auschwitz, Dachau, Munkacs, Sol Teichman | 19 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 23, 2013

Jew With Shotgun

Tweet I love the smell of guns in the morning. It’s a whiff of freedom in Obamerica. I’m in the Martin B. Retting Gun Shop, located in scenic Culver City. The store is jammed. When I lived in New York, Barneys used to have a one-day super sale. The line to get in was around […]

Also posted in Jew Without A Gun, Obama Watch, Second Amendment | Tagged Martin B. Retting Gun Store, Remington 870 | 43 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 17, 2013

Hitchcock and the Holocaust

Tweet Alfred Hitchcock’s movies have been the subject of intense scrutiny for decades. Understandably, we who love Hitchcock, focus on his unique cinematic language, the almost shamanistic ability to move the audience into shifting and complex points of view, and his mastery of suspense. Less known are the propaganda films he volunteered to work on […]

Also posted in Alfred Hitchcock, Jew-haters | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock Holocaust Documentary, Nazi Concentration Camps, Sidney Bernstein, Trevor Howard | 28 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | August 19, 2012

Saudi Cleric Slaman Al-Odeh: Jews Use Human Blood for Passover Matzos

Tweet Just another day in the Muslim world where Holocaust denial and the blood libel are taken for granted. But of course these people are merely anti-Zionist, not a bunch of ignorant, genocidal-yearning, frothing-at-the-mouth Jew-haters.

Also posted in Blood Libel, Holocaust Denial, Jew-haters, Passover, Saudi Arabia | Tagged Islam | 5 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 24, 2012

Colorado: Acts of Valor

Tweet One of my closest friends here in Los Angeles is a Holocaust survivor named Sol. As a teenager he saw his mother and baby sister sent to the crematoria by Josef Mengele. Over eighty members of Sol’s family were murdered by the Nazis. Sol and his brother Steve were sent on a death march […]

Also posted in Colorado Massacre, Feminism | Tagged Alex Teves, Amanda Lindgren, Courage, Jansen Young, Jon Blunk, Matt McQuinn, Men and Women, Samantha Yowler | 11 Responses

How I Married Karen

The new book
by Robert J. Avrech

Available in All Major Book Stores

Adobe Digital Edition's version is available through the Lulu store!
About Me
Robert J. Avrech
Los Angeles, California
I'm an Emmy Award winning screenwriter. I'm also an observant Jew, a religious Zionist, a conservative Republican, and a member of the NRA. I've been writing and producing in Hollywood for over twenty-five years. But the focus of my life is my family: my radiant wife, Karen—with whom I have been in love with since I was nine years-old—and my two daughters, who, thankfully, look like Karen. Not too long ago, we had three children. But our son, Ariel, died at the age of twenty-two from cancer. We miss him terribly. We think about him practically every minute of every day. People tell us that time heals, but Karen and I know this is not true. Time grinds away doing its terrible work. Ariel is gone. Yet absence becomes presence.

Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.
Subscribe to Seraphic Press via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Email Address
Search Seraphic Secret
Annual Ariel Avrech
Memorial Lectures
Young Israel of Century City

Thirteenth: May 22, 2016
Ben Shapiro: "How You Can Save Israel"

Blog Post
MP3 Audio Stereo (70 MB)

Twelfth: June 7, 2015
Larry Elder: "The New Black Anti-Semitism"

Blog Post
MP3 Audio Mono (50 MB) | Stereo (100 MB)

Eleventh: June 8, 2014
Michael Medved: "Shifting Alliances: Why Liberals No Longer Reliably Support Israel — And Conservatives Do." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 97MB)

Tenth: June 9, 2013
David Horowitz: "The War Against Judaism on the University Campus." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 16MB)

Ninth: June 3, 2012
Joel B. Pollak: "The Mainstream Media's Betrayal of Israel." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 15MB)

Eighth: June 5, 2011
Yossi Klein Halevi: "What is Expected of a Survivor People: Lessons My Father Taught Me." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 18MB)

Seventh: June 13, 2010
Dennis Prager: "Happiness is a Mitzvah, Not an Emotion." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 80MB)

Sixth: June 21, 2009
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky: "Conformity in Jewish Life: Vice, Virtue or Affectation?" Blog Post | Audio (mp3 64MB)

Fifth: June 15, 2008
Rabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl: "What Was the Rosh Yeshiva Reading: Intellectual Openness in 19th Century Lithuania." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 70MB)
Tags

Al Sharpton Audrey Hepburn Ava Gardner Benjamin Netanyahu Bette Davis Big Government Brigitte Bardot Carole Lombard Cary Grant Charlie Chaplin Clark Gable Edward Hopper Elizabeth Taylor Gary Cooper Glamour Grace Kelly Greta Garbo Hamas Hedy Lamarr Hillary Clinton Hollywood IslamoNazis Israel James Nares Jean Harlow Jeremiah Wright Jew-hatred Joan Crawford John Kerry John Wayne Karen Singer Avrech Liberal Facism Liberal Fascism Lielle Meital Livia Yarden Ma'ayan Ariel Marilyn Monroe Marlene Dietrich Mary Pickford Myrna Loy Nuclear Iran Obama PalNazis Rita Hayworth Shabbat