Film Review | A Real Pain
What if wounds don’t heal as much as they transform and re-shape as they pass down through the generations?
From 2004 | Break-Fast on Cyprus
The British allowed us to visit the seashore on the eve of Yom Kippur so we could purify ourselves for the Day of Atonement.
Memoir | Set in Stone, Stumbling Home
Jane M. Friedman details her experience receiving the Stolpersteine of her relatives who were persecuted and escaped or were murdered during the Holocaust.
Wisdom Project | Joseph Werk, 97
Joseph Werk shares his story of escaping Poland during WWII and his involvement with the IDF’s volunteer service Sar-El.
How to Remember: Holocaust Literature From Survivors’ Accounts to 3G
A survey of Holocaust Literature across different generations—from Elie Wiesel to Art Spiegelman to Julie Orringer.
From 1975 | “Remembering,” by Elie Wiesel
“In those days and nights of destiny, the solitude of the Jewish people was matched only by God’s.” – Read this archived article by Elie Wiesel from 1975.
Analysis | After October 7, Holocaust Literature Will Never Be the Same
Generations of Jewish writers have reckoned with the Holocaust: Now there’s a new trauma to contend with.
Wisdom Project | Morris Waitz, 100, Keeps Thinking About Tomorrow
A fortune teller predicted Morris Waitz would die in World War II. Now 100, he says he “beat that by a little bit.”
Wisdom Project | Lusia Milch, 92: “Doing Nothing Is Not Acceptable”
Lusia Milch, the spokeswoman for “Lives Eliminated, Dreams Illuminated” discusses her tough survival of the Holocaust and her message for Jews to never give up their fight to eliminate antisemitism.
Antisemitism Monitor | Week of August 28, 2023
A rise of neo-Nazism throughout Brazil. A memorial to Jews at a train station destroyed in Germany, with antisemitic notes left behind. A return of the blood libel myth on a news station in Turkey. Read more in this week’s Antisemitism Monitor Newsletter.
Antisemitism Monitor | Week of December 19, 2022
Holocaust denial in Canada. Assault of a Haredi man in Israel. An escape from Paris to Scotland to avoid conviction. Read more in this week’s Antisemitism Monitor Newsletter.
From 2006 | Marked For Life
A tattoo offers a means of protesting against one part of society while conforming to another. A young Israeli put it perfectly when he said, “I want a different tattoo, like everybody else.”