Word: guzik
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...stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.” But in the poor, remote areas of Russia and Ukraine, becoming a musician, even for talented children, is closer to the unrealizable than Copland would have thought. Enter the Guzik Foundation, a million-dollar scholarship program founded in Palo Alto, California by Russian-born industrialist Nahum Guzik. The foundation supports the artistic endeavors of a small group of talented musicians selected by competition. The best of these become Guzik Foundation Award Winners. This year, Ukrainian-born winners Dinara Nadzhafova and Ilya...
...summers ago, Estelle Guzik, a volunteer archivist at New York City's YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, came across a curious file previously not indexed: a cache of letters written by Anne Frank's father, Otto. The roughly 80 documents, including considerable correspondence from Otto Frank to friends, family and officials, reveal just how desperately Mr. Frank-who survived the Holocaust-was trying to save his wife Edith, his mother-in-law Rosa Hollander and his daughters Margot and Anne...