The Long Shadow of Austria’s Nazi Past
Last spring, my wife Anne-Marie and I had traveled to Linz, Austria’s third largest city, to attend the May 4 ceremony marking the liberation, by...
Hitler’s Enablers Included Conservative German Jews
History is replete with examples of people naïvely voting against their interests or loving a leader who doesn’t love them back.
Book Review | A Language Forged in Fire
The novel brings overdue attention to the fate of the Yiddish language in the Holocaust, seeing it as a victim in its own right.
Film Review | The Brutalist
The Brutalist grapples with the dysfunctional marriage of art, class and commerce in an enormous swing of a movie.
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.
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.