What Today’s Refugees Can Learn from Holocaust Survivors About the Human Spirit
Following World War II, many Jews were confined to displaced persons (DPs) camps in Allied-occupied countries. Among them were my parents and parents-in-law.
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Where the Jews Are: A Poem for International Holocaust Remembrance Day
I found them, viscerally familiar aliens / in my grandmother’s poppy seed cake / in the first pomegranate I ate / in all the rivers that have seen me weep...
Night of Fire and Glass: A Poem in Memory of Kristallnacht
This poem was written in memory of Kristallnacht (Nov. 9-10, 1938) in honor of those who suffered
When God Speaks, How Will You Respond?
Visiting Leipzig in 2014, I told of my father’s arrest in that city on Kristallnacht. In the congregation, sat a man with my name with an incredible story about that same night.
This New Hungarian Holocaust Film is Reminiscent of a Hollywood Western
The black and white film 1945, in Hungarian with English subtitles, is charged with historical allegory and symbolic dread. It teaches: Acknowledge the sins of the past, as your soul may depend on it.