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Memoir | Crossing the Krimml Pass

  • September 13, 2023
  • By author-avatar Erin Hughey-Commers
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Bricha guides didn’t allow refugees to carry lights, not only to be invisible to border guards but also so they could not see the plunging drop-offs beside the trail.

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Three smiling girls stand side by side in Shanghei. A passport documentation in Japanese is overlaid on the photograph.
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Sanctuary and Humiliation: The Wartime Haven in Shanghai

  • July 20, 2023
  • By author-avatar Harry Freedman
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Although the Shanghai ghetto was in one of the most dilapidated parts of the city, it was totally unlike the Nazi ghettos of Europe.

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Wisdom Project | Agnes Biro Rothblatt, 90

  • June 19, 2023
  • By author-avatar Pam Janis
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“There was no food, no heat. My mother scavenged for wood from bombed and abandoned houses to get heat. Eventually, the Iron Curtain closed the country. My parents felt that we had no future there. We were considered too bourgeois.”

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Visual Moment | Tales of Rifles and Resistance

  • January 19, 2023
  • By author-avatar Diane M. Bolz
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These are the words of Faye Schulman, who, at age 16 during World War II, fled to the forests outside her hometown of Lenin, Poland, after witnessing her entire family being executed by the Nazis.

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Beshert | My Mother’s Love Song

  • December 7, 2021
  • By author-avatar Marion Silver
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Penny and Peter first met on a kibbutz in Palestine, where they both moved to escape the second World War. They were separated when she moved to England, only to be reunited years later, after he had become a famous singer in Israel.

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Book Review | Nuance in the Fight between Good and Evil

  • June 28, 2021
  • By author-avatar Eugene L. Meyer
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1939: A People’s History By Frederick Taylor W. W. Norton & Company; 448 pp; $30 Library shelves are full of books whose titles celebrate, commemorate or contemplate a...

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In Hania, Crete—a Town With No Jewish Presence—a Synagogue Thrives

  • September 27, 2017
  • By author-avatar Sherri Moshman Paganos
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During the mid 19th century, the island’s Jewish population reached 900, but after much emigration, by World War II only around 300 Jews were left, all in Hania.

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How “Anti-Semite” Miklos Horthy Saved the Jews of Budapest

  • February 2, 2016
  • By author-avatar Rachel Gross
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By Eliezer M. Rabinovich In 1944, Hungarian Regent Miklós Horthy saved more Jews than anyone else in the world. Yet today, next to the efforts of heroic...

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