The Holocaust
We arrived in Poland on Sunday, June 18, and opened with a lovely dinner in our hotel. We were greeted by Tsipy, then heard from the local Chabad Rabbi and […]
Read MoreThey arrived to this land at the calling of birds. Polin, polin, rest here. Here, enclosed beneath the trees, row after row the headstones stand silent, angled this way and that […]
Read MoreStalin famously said, “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of ten million is a statistic.” I knew going in that it would be nearly impossible to […]
Read MoreI thought I was prepared. This encompasses so much I thought I was prepared to travel. It’s been years since I’ve been on a plane but I haven’t been on […]
Read MoreToday was my first full day in Poland. To say the least . . . it was powerful. Before I get into what we did, I just want to say […]
Read MoreBeyond the Wall of Names: Evidence of a Life Lived I grew up surrounded by grandchildren of Holocaust survivors. I thought that was normal. Once I graduated high school, I […]
Read MoreThe Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a new Talking Memory series Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust: Filling in the Gaps June 25th : The Iasi Pogrom in Romania Opening […]
Read MoreCould the Allies have done more during the Holocaust to stop the murders in the extermination camps or to slow down the progression of events thereby saving lives? The question […]
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