In New England, Number Of Jews Applying For German Citizenship Quadruples
The number of Jewish descendants of Holocaust survivors who have applied for German citizenship has nearly quadrupled this year in the part of the United States served by Germany’s Boston consulate, radio station WBUR...
When Recreation Is No Longer Much Fun
Modern technology has had a tremendous influence on the world of human recreation, partly as a result of the development of totally new forms of competition, both with others as well as with oneself,...
These 7 dwarfs where saved in Aushwitz by their size not by Snow White
You probably know that very few families survived Auschwitz intact. But did you know that among them was a family with dwarfism?
Born in Transylvania, 7 of the 10 Ovitz children inherited their father’s short stature. After his death...
The old Polish tree that saved two Jews during the war
In the Polish town of Wiśniowa, not far from Krakow, there is a large oak tree. It grows on the former grounds of the noble Mycielski family, and is thought to be about 650...
500 Years After Expulsion, Sicily’s Jews Reclaim a Lost History
Sicily’s Jews were banished from this island in 1492, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism.
More than 500 years later, a nascent Jewish...
Why Chernobyl’s Jewish History Still Matters — 31 Years After The Accident
My aunt recently reminded me that everything changed on April 26, 1986. I knew this, of course, but it wasn’t often that my family talked about the accident or the evacuation.
When I was growing...
Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The following speech was delivered at Der Shteyn (The Stone), Riverside Park, New York City, on April 19, 2017, the 74th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
It’s been hard for me to focus on...
Oldest Holocaust Museum Recasts Lessons as ‘a Warning Sign’
As a teenager, Dorka Sternberg watched as Nazi officers, enraged after two youths from the underground fired a handgun at them, randomly picked 25 young men and women from a roundup in her Polish...
In Anne Frank’s childhood neighborhood, the buildings do not forget
Far from the city center but close to the wide Amstel River, Anne Frank’s childhood home is found in the tidy River Quarter. Although vast changes have occurred in some Amsterdam neighborhoods since World...