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In Honor of Holocaust Memorial Day

January 27 — the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau

On this annual day of commemoration here are a few associated books:

These are two wonderful gifts I received this Christmas.

Roy MurrayMar 8

Sophie L. — A Life in Five Moves

Leslie Berlin

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Most of us who lead relatively quiet and dull lives can only marvel at the ability of people to transcend the horrors of political and racial oppression. Sophie was an amazing, powerful woman who was able to overcome incredible obstacles. Leslie has illustrated her roller coaster life in a beautifully informal way. I could see this becoming a movie.

NewserMar 12 min read

Years After Mysterious Death, 1st Nazi Hunter in Limelight

Nearly 50 years after he was mysteriously…

Brian DorringtonAug 16, 20154 min read

When Max met Max

Most people don’t think of pilgrimages beginning in a worn, blue Dodge Grand Caravan, but that is where ours started. On Friday…

Asghar BukhariMar 3016 min read

Asghar Bukhari: Organised Jews, Disorganised Muslims, War, the Bible & A Police cell

ＴｒａｄｉｔｉｏJan 91 min read

Military Internment Camps in US

… to be Used for Political Dissidents

Daniel VoskoboynikJan 1715 min read

The Paris Agreement

For all the dispiriting truths I know about the world, inside of me I still carry impulses of hopeful naiveté: that there are no bad intentions but misguided ones, that things are being constantly improved, that there are always saviours somewhere, that all problems find their cures. These…

Avi WoolfSep 9, 20154 min read

On refugees, the Holocaust and moral reckonings

In 1938, representatives of many of the world’s countries gathered in the city of Evian to discuss a burning issue. All throughout Europe, Jews were being persecuted — stripped of their citizenship and rights, murdered in the streets and at the…

Purnasneha SundarNov 22, 20152 min read

FORGET = KILL TWICE

Roman Polanski’s “The Pianist” tells the story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a star of Polish radio and cafe society in the 1930’s, a member of Warsaw’s assimilated Jewish middle class, who lived through the Nazi occupation and the Warsaw ghetto and a man who survived the Holocaust through patience, endurance…

Ambassador Samantha PowerFeb 144 min read

Unto Every Person There Is A Name

What I said at Yad Vashem

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