Memoir | Crossing the Krimml Pass
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.
Sanctuary and Humiliation: The Wartime Haven in Shanghai
Although the Shanghai ghetto was in one of the most dilapidated parts of the city, it was totally unlike the Nazi ghettos of Europe.
Wisdom Project | Agnes Biro Rothblatt, 90
“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.”
Visual Moment | Tales of Rifles and Resistance
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.
Beshert | My Mother’s Love Song
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.
Book Review | Nuance in the Fight between Good and Evil
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...
In Hania, Crete—a Town With No Jewish Presence—a Synagogue Thrives
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.
How “Anti-Semite” Miklos Horthy Saved the Jews of Budapest
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...