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Newspaper and Magazine Articles
GENERAL
“Lives of Style”, Elisabeth Laurence, San Francisco Examiner, June l6-l7, 2006 “From Shoah To Racism: Documenting ‘Trauma beyond Comprehension’”, Cynthia Dettelbach, Cleveland Jewish News, November 25, 2005
“A Silver Lining for Racism Victims”, Pat Lynch, Women’s Radio Network
“Lowell Class of '65 Considers Legacy - Baby Boomers Look Back on Their Halcyon Days. 40 years after Graduation” Duffy Jennings, San Francisco Chronicle, October 14, 2005
“Woman of Action”, Marlowe Rafaelle, Nob Hill Gazette, April 2004
“Collecting Voices for Tolerance”, The Examiner, April 2, 2002
San Francisco Bay Area Literary Arts Newsletter
HOLOCAUST ORAL HISTORY WORK
“San Francisco Tapes Help Painful Memories Heal”, Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 01.10.03
“Voices From The Past - Memories of Holocaust Survivors Are Being Shown at San Mateo Museum, Thanks to Efforts of Oral History Project”, Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 11.22.02
“Hear My Story, Holocaust Horrors Recalled on Videotape,” Janet Silver Ghent, Oakland Tribune. October l,1991
“Holocaust Project Produces Newspaper, Radio Show, Poster”, Steve Smith, Jewish Bulletin. April 26, l985,
“Holocaust Oral History Project Marks l0th Year”, Nadine Joseph, Jewish Bulletin, June 21, l991
“Keep Memories Alive”, Editorial, Jewish Bulletin, June 28, l991
“Protest Grows Over Europa Europa Oscar Omission”, Tom Tugend, Jewish Bulletin, February 21, l992
“Saving Stories of the Holocaust” Susan Herbert, San Francisco Independent, December l, l992
“Holocaust Remembered as Survivors Talk on Camera”, Julie Freestone, Berkeley Hills Publications, August 23, l990
“Sonoma State Series Probes All Aspects of Holocaust”, Jewish Bulletin, Feb. 5, 1993
“Spielberg Launches Holocaust Oral History Project”, David Miller, Jewish Bulletin, May l994
Visa’s for Life Catalogue
“Oral History Project Head Leaves After Nearly l6 Years”, Leslie Katz, Jewish Bulletin, January l6, l996
“Untold Tales”, Sand Sims, Saratoga News
522nd FIELD ARTILLERY BATTALION
“Reunion”, the New Yorker, November ll, l991
“The Liberation of Fellow Internees During WWII”, Dan Krieger, The San Luis Obispo Tribune. 4.11.04
“S.F. Holocaust Project Honors 4 War Heroes”, Clarence Johnson, September 9, 1996
Solly Ganor, Light One Candle
CHIUNE AND YUKIKO SUGIHARA
“Widow of Japanese `Schindler' Visits San Francisco- World War II Survivors, Descendants Honor Couple Who Saved 6,000 Jews” - Benjamin Pimentel, Chronicle Peninsula Bureau, January 18, 1995
“Sugihara’s List - Lithuanians Honor Japanese Diplomat Who Saved Thousands”, Paul Blustein, Washington Post. October 3, l994
“The Honors Come Late For a Japanese Schindler, A Month of Tribute to Savior of Thousands”, Carey Goldberg, New York Times, Nov. 6, l995
JAMES BYRD JR. RACISM ORAL HISTORY PROJECT
“Recording Prejudice’s Pain, Students Tape Their Experiences for Anti-Racism Project” Jason B. Johnson, The San Francisco Chronicle, May 20, 2004
“Silver Teaches Vacation Bible School Students About Racism, Social Injustice” The Jasper Newsboy June 23, 2004
“Making Oral History”, Julie Webb, Jasper Newsboy, September 25, 2002
“Anti-Racism Project Gathers Stories”, KRON T.V. News story-July 5, 2004
“Voices in Pain”, Beaumont Enterprise, Jacqueline Lane, November l0, 2003
“Hundreds Unburden Selves of Bitter History”, Diana Reinhart, Beaumont Enterprise, June l, 2003
“Racism Oral History Project”, KGO T.V. News Story, Willie Monroe
“Para is Driven to Fight Racism, Teach, Promote Union”, Featuring Toni Gill, San Francisco Educator, September 2003
“San Mateo High School Learns About Racism in U.S” Bryna McCartny, San Mateo High School Newspaper, April 28, 2004
“Oral History-A First Person Account/Silver Offers Jasper Opportunity for Residents to Participate in National Program”, the Jasper Newsboy, Kari Ellis, October 29, 2003
“Center Inspires Activist To Continue Her Work”, Lani Silver, Southern Poverty Law Center Report, Mailbox October 2002, Volume 32, #3
“Oral History on Racism Cited”, Jackson Advocate, by Earnest McBride, October 6, 2002
TRIBUTE TO BILL GRAHAM
“Grief, Joy at Graham Benefit”, San Francisco Examiner, March 2, l992
“Star-Studded Tribute to Celebrate Bill Graham’s Memory”, Jewish Bulletin, Feb. 28, l992
“Heartfelt Tributes At Graham Event”, Jesse Hamlin, San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 1992
“Holocaust Inspired Graham’s Largess”, Jewish Bulletin, November l, l991
“A Goodbye to Bill Graham”, San Francisco Independent, Diane Keaton, March 5, l992
“Bill Graham Tribute Brings Survivors, Stars Together”, Garth Wolkoff, Jewish Bulletin. March l6, l992
SILENT VOICES SPEAK
“An Art Exhibition and Lecture Series on the Holocaust and Social Injustice Today”
“A Broad Look at Shoah: Healing the Wounds”, Jewish Bulletin
MICHAEL KRASNY’S FORUM PROGRAM, KQED
San Francisco Unified School District Press Release, August l5, 2003
TWO CENTS, (San Francisco Chronicle)
“Who should be governor of California?”S.F. Chronicle, Sunday, July 20, 2003
“What Would You Do if You Were Saddam Hussein?” San Francisco Chronicle, October l3, 2002
EDITORIALS
“Moving the School of the Arts is the Wrong Idea At the Wrong Time”, Julie Coghlan, Caren Streb and Lani Silver, San Francisco Chronicle, March l8, 2006
“10 Years of Stadium Drivel: No on D”, San Francisco Examiner, 05/29/97
“Yom Hashoa: Grief and Remembrance”, San Francisco Examiner, 04/16/96
“To Be Alone in the City: Walk”, Examiner, 04/08/97
“A message to Mrs. Cheney: Get a life”, San Francisco Examiner, Dec. 23, 2001, SFGate
“Why Do Men Love War So Much?” San Francisco Examiner, SFGate
ARTICLES
“East Timor Nobel Laureate, in S.F. Speaks Out for Jews”, Lani Silver, Jewish Bulletin Chapter included in Making Stories, Making Selves, Feminist Reflections on the Holocaust with R. Ruth Linden, in Bearing Witness, Reflections on Interviewing Jewish Holocaust Survivors
“Why Can’t the Chronicle Be More Like the New York Times?” Lani Silver, San Francisco Bay Guardian
MUSIC
CD, “Tall Tales of Osama Laden”
Live l05, Interview, November 25, 2005, On songwriting
Tower.com. CD’s “Spare the World”, A Hero Walks Among Us, and Don’t Talk to Me If You Voted for Bush
West Coast Songwriters Newsletter
PETER COYOTE, (cousin)
“Peter Coyote, An Outsider With a Jewish Sense of Humor”, Lori Eppstein,
Jewish Bulletin, January l998.
PORCHLIGHT (Storytelling Series)
BOOKS
Editor, Visa’s for Life, Yukiko Sugihara. Editors, Lani Silver, Eric Saul, Anne Akabouri. Educom, October 95, isbn: 0964967405
Unlikely Liberators, (in Japanese)
Visas for Life, The Remarkable Story of Chiune and Yukiko Sugihara and the Rescue Of Thousands of Jews (Photographic Catalogue), Holocaust Oral History Project, 1995
AWARDS
KQED “Woman of the Year”, 2003
“One of Five”, Jewish Bulletin of Northern California, March 25,2003
SUGIHARA OPERA
“Japanese Schindler Immortalized in Opera” J. (formerly the Jewish Bulletin), May 25, p. 24
“Opera Based on Sugihara Story”, Hokubei Mainichi News, May 25, 2006, p. 24
SPEECHES
Gallaudet University:
“Minorities Matter”, Andrew Fisher, The Buff and Blue. May 2006 “Lani Silver Reveals Link Between the Holocaust, Racism and Genocide”, On the Green, Gallaudet University Newsletter. June l6, 2006 p. l6
“Lani Silver, Holocaust Oral Historian and Activist Makes the Links at Gallaudet University"
Cleveland:
“From Shoah to Racism: Documenting ‘Trauma Beyond Comprehension’”, Cynthia Dettelbach, Cleveland Jewish News
University of Vermont:
Holocaust Awareness Week, The Burlington Free Press, 5.3.2005
The View (from the University of Vermont) May 4, 2005
University of Southern Florida:
“Holocaust Historian will Lecture Tuesday”, St. Petersburg Times (Florida) April 24, 2005
“Holocaust Historian and Activist Speaks at University of Southern Florida”, St. Petersburg Times, April 13, 2005
“Days of Sadness Also Time of Great Expectations in Pinellas Park”, Waveney Ann Moore, St. Petersburg Times – 4.27.05
Old Dominion University, Norfolk Virginia:
“Activist’s Interviews Highlight Injustices” – The Virginian Pilot, Norfolk, Va. April 29, 2004, Tony Germantto.
“Holocaust Historian to Offer Lecture”, The Virginia Pilot, April 6, 2004
Old Dominion University News, Norfolk, Virginia, “Jewish Studies Lecture is April 28 (2004)”
Kent State University, Canton Ohio:
“Historian to Address Racism, Repository, Canton Ohio 9.21.2004, Cantonrerp.com. Sept. 20, 2004
“Holocaust Historian Puts Challenge to Students at Walsh”, Repository, Canton, Ohio, September 23, 2004
“Oral Historian Plans Talk on Middle East”, Akron Beacon Journal, 9.20.04
James Madison University:
James Madison University, Harrisonburg Virginia
“Historian Tells of Research on Holocaust, Silver Has Done l,400 Interviews With Survivors”, Lee Zion, Daily News-Record, Harrisonburg, Virginia, April 21, 2004
“Hillel Hosts Week of Remembrance”, James Madison University Breeze, Monday, April 19, 2004
California Polytechnic, San Luis Obispo:
“Activist Speaking Tonight At Poly-Lani Silver has Studied Survivors of the Holocaust”, the San Luis Obispo Tribune, Laurie Phillips, 4.15.04
Colorado State University, Fort Collins:
“Holocaust Chronicler Lends An Ear-Individuals Can Make Difference”, Ranaf Kalaaji, Fort Collins Coloradoan, April l7, 2002
“Bringing Light Into Darkness, Hate and Hope”, Colorado State University News and Information, April 16, 2002
Stanford University:
“Hillel Prepares for Next Week’s Holocaust Remembrance”, George K. Tong, Stanford Daily. April 2, 2002
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