Holocaust

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been reading multiple books set in Marseille. Specifically, I have read two novels detailing the movement of refugees during World War II to the port city in hopes of escaping the Nazi advance. Before leaving for Marseille, I read Julie Orringer’s The Flight Portfolio…

Anne Frank’s childhood friend speaks out the actual truth! — Anne Frank’s name is remembered as a sign of hope and strength in the middle of the sadness of the Holocaust. But a less prominent part of her life is the years before the terrible things happened. In this touching story, a close friend of Anne Frank takes us back…

NEW BOOK BY CHARLES MOSCOWITZ: The Case for JEXIT: The American Jewish Exodus from the Left Why Holocaust Education is Necessary By Charles Moscowitz NEW BOOK BY CHARLES MOSCOWITZ: The Case for JEXIT: The American Jewish Exodus from the Left Holocaust education is necessary because the Nazi Holocaust was the…

The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds My Friend Anne Frank The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds by Hannah Pick-Goslar Pub Date 06 Jun 2023 Little, Brown and Company, Little, Brown…

Sick to my stomach. I just left the Holocaust Museum. Yad Vashem, Israel’s largest Holocaust memorial, sits on the slopes of the Mount of Remembrance on the edge of Jerusalem. Racism is a vile disease. There’s something in us that wants us to think better of ourselves — and it’s…

WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS DISTURBING IMAGES. Part 1: Prelude to Horror: The Rise of Anti-Semitism and Nazi Germany Introduction The Holocaust stands as one of the most harrowing events in human history, an unparalleled tragedy that claimed the lives of six million Jews and left a permanent stain on the…

On December 10, 1986, Elie Wiesel delivered his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech for his book Night. In the speech, he said, ‘I have tried to keep memory alive, I have tried to fight those who would forget because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.’ In the…

I slept and woke up at 2 different times. I finally went to sleep at 11:30. I felt so sleepy and thank goodness- I thought- I’d be going to sleep. As I drifted off to sleep, I heard a woman’s laughter. I woke up and I was standing in front…

One in three Jews were killed in the Holocaust. In its aftermath, those who remained and their descendent contemplated its lessons. We wondered: What was our path to safety? There were two main schools of thought in the Jewish community. One focused on how many non-Jews either stood by, or…