Holocaust

“It was the day before Passover, and our Division Chaplain, of the 42nd Rainbow Division sent out a notice that we were ...

“He was a tall man with broad shoulders, the type we used to call ‘a real goliath,’ powerful and with ...

My mother was born in Germany in 1939. She grew up there, emigrating to the United States in 1968, after ...

“Yes,” I told the baffled American immigration official, “I was in Belarus for a roots trip.” But this in no ...

It was a day like any other. I was absorbed in the details of my life, answering an overflowing stack ...

My husband and I recently journeyed from New Orleans to Israel—a first trip for him, an always-sacred return for me. ...

In my many years of schooling across three continents, I’ve attended many Holocaust classes. Yet, during each lesson and every ...

Donna Tartt, the author of this year’s Pulitzer Prize winner  The Goldfinch , was once told by Ken Kesey, the ...

“Eastern Europe’s outcast, Belarus lies at the edge of the region and seems determined to avoid integration with the rest ...

I feel extremely fortunate to have been able to tell this very dramatic, and heretofore almost completely unknown, Holocaust rescue ...

The fifth of the Ten Commandments states: Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in ...

I started reading about the fate of the Jews during the Second World War when I was eleven. No one ...