By Inna Rogatchi, Times of Israel—- It was a sunny March day in Washington D.C., busy, promising and energetic. My husband Michael and I were at the office of the legendary organisation in the down-town. NCSEJ, National Council for Soviet Jewry has earned its name by standing for the Soviet refuseniks during the decades, doing…
By Inna Rogatchi, Times of Israel—- I do not like ceremonies. The officialdom in them obscures, in my understanding, the essence. I also doubt a sincerity in measured events which is always individual. Those who are sincere at ceremonies are sincere in general, many others are on duty. Among the speeches, there are so many…
By Inna Rogatchi, Times of Israel— I always thought that it is impossible to explain our life to anyone who did not live through it. When I wrote my books on Soviet realities, taught the contemporary Soviet history in several Western universities, authored numerous columns and articles on what we lived through, was given hundreds…
By Inna Rogatchi, Times of Israel—- Maestro Lotoro is an incredibly busy man. He conducts, he plays, he records. He teaches, he researches, he writes. He prepares music scores for publications, he supervises huge edition of unique and historically important musical collections. He travels non-stop meeting people and searching for unique scores. He works with…
By Inna Rogatchi, Times of Israel— Return from the Abyss Is not the hypothesis on ‘a return from an abyss‘ an oxymoron? But in a still hard to comprehend segment of modern history, this very process has become a reality from the summer of 1945 onward for a massive amount of people. For those several…
By Inna Rogatchi (C), Rogatchi Foundation — When painting her famed The Auschwitz Album Revisited collection of unique art works, our dear friend, courageous and passionate Pat Mercer Hutchens was dreaming that one day her works will be shown in Budapest, Hungary. Pat was working on her the one of the kind collection during several…