Holocaust

Those Who Are Saved

Helene Cohen Bludman

Very few Jews managed to escape the Holocaust and find refuge in the United States. In her novel Those Who Are Saved, Alexis Landau tells the story of Vera and Max, whose artistic talents and connections afforded them a new life in America without sacrificing the privileged lifestyle they enjoyed before the war.

Hands holding a yellow fabric Star of David

Holocaust

When is Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)?

On the Jewish calendar, Yom HaShoah falls on the 27th of the Hebrew month of Nisan, which means the observance will begin at sundown on 26 Nisan. In 1951, when the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) established the observance, it did not want the day to interfere with Shabbat by coming either

Black and white image of Germans looking at broken storefront windows the day after Kristallnacht

Antisemitism and Hate Crimes

Kristallnacht's Lessons for Today

Abraham H. Foxman

Each year on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, we recall the opening salvo of the violent assault on Jews that foreshadowed the Holocaust and ask ourselves what should have been done at that moment.anti

Black and white image of a young and smiling TV star Robert Clary

Conversion

Alliance, Resilience, and Repairing a Broken World: Lessons from a Jewish Sitcom Star

Barrett Clemmensen Powell

September 10, 2020

One person can change your life forever. For me, this person was Robert Clary, an entertainer and author who rose to fame starring as Corporal Louis LeBeau on the classic sitcom "Hogan’s Heroes."

The author poses for a smiling photo with his elderly mother

Spirituality

A Mother’s Day Interview with My 99-Year-Old Mother, a Holocaust Survivor

Aron Hirt-Manheimer

May 6, 2020

This is the third year in row that I’ve interviewed my mother, Adela, a Holocaust survivor, for Mother’s Day. In our 2018 and 2019 interviews, she revealed memories that she’d previously kept to herself, like the last time she saw her own mother.