Jud Newborn
Dr. Jud Newborn —a seasoned on-camera expert—is a NYC-based anthropologist, Holocaust scholar and journalist specializing in the Mideast conflict, anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism and extremist movements the world over . Newborn wrote the world's first Op Ed piece— just one day after 9/11— pinpointing the ideology & motivation behind the WTC attacks. It was cited by Governor Mario Cuomo on Larry King Live to answer the question, “Why do they hate us?”
A dynamic public speaker & author, Dr. Jud is also an expert on cultural issues, human rights & the environment worldwide. Newborn served as co-creator of NY's Holocaust Museum (MJH) from 1986 to 2000, & worked with the founding Director of the U.S. Holocaust Museum. A former Fulbright Fellow, Dr. Newborn was awarded his Doctorate with Distinction from the University of Chicago . He earned his B.A. Magna cum laude & Phi Beta Kappa from NYU, spent a year as writer-in-residence at Clare Hall, Cambridge , & then returned to NYC to work for Oxford University Press. During 4 years of European fieldwork, Newborn hunted down Nazis to interview. He also did a voluntary stint as an undercover agent for Poland 's Solidarity freedom movement, 6 months into Communist military rule.
Dr. Jud has appeared on all national TV networks & has lectured coast to coast, from L.A. 's Simon Wiesenthal Center to the UN, where he called out against Serbian ethnic cleansing only days after the fall of Srebrenica. Newborn has written for The New York Times, Jerusalem Post, Newsday, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Nation, The Forward, Arthur Frommer Travel, etc. He is co-author of Shattering the German Night: The Story of the White Rose , reissued in Germany with a special introduction by President Richard von Weizsäcker. A stirring account of German Christian students—some former Hitler Youth—who resisted the Nazis, The Story of the White Rose is an antidote to today's fanaticism & hatred worldwide. It was developed as a feature film.
“At one stopover on the train journey home, Hans told his sister Inge later, he saw a young girl with the Star of David on her breast; she was repairing tracks on the line, along with other people with yellow badges on their clothes. Her face was pallid, sunken in; her eyes, beyond grief and terror. Impulsively, Hans thrust his rations in her hand. She looked up at him, then at his uniform. She threw the packet of food to the ground.He scooped it up, wiped off the dust, and picked a daisy growing by the side of the tracks. He placed the package, with the daisy on top, at her feet. He said, "I would have liked to give you a little pleasure." He boarded the train.When he looked back, the girl was standing there, watching the train disappear, the flower in her hair.”
“Their eyes met; neither would forget.”