In the summer of 1992, I walked through the streets of Kielce, Poland. I stopped elderly residents to ask about a massacre that had happened forty-six years earlier. No one would talk to me about...
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TJS S3E18 The Eichmann Trial
The Holocaust was so dark and vast that Jews around the world struggled to integrate it into their consciousness, despite the hundreds of thousands of survivors in their midst. One of the turning...
TJS S3E17: The Kastner affair
The memory of the the Holocaust is dark and traumatic enough that it threatens to overwhelm even the light of the present. Here is the first part of an exploration of Holocaust memory in...
Sirens Across Israel – Yom Hashoah / Yom Hazikaron and then…
And then? Independence Day! Let me backtrack a bit. Every year in Israel after Passover, a siren sounds across the country to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day. When the siren sounds, its tradition...
Union Rules Broken When Jews Forced To Dig Own Graves
The executioners’ union might also demand involvement. Riga, Latvia, April 11 – The head of a local professional association voiced dissatisfaction with the way mass execution of area...
Sarsour Assures Jews Polish Mass Murder Of Jews Not Systemic
“I am not going to sit here and be dictated to by those who are probably white, male, and non-Muslim about what I should be fighting.” New York, February 6 – A leading Muslim...
Kasztner: Holocaust Hero or Accessory to Mass Murder?
By Paul Bogdanor Between May and July 1944, a team of 150-200 Nazi SS men led by Adolf Eichmann succeeded in deporting more than 400,000 Jewish men, women, and children from Hungary to Auschwitz. In...
It’s Holocaust Remembrance Day again
It’s Holocaust Remembrance Day again. It’s getting harder and harder to feel a true sense of mourning, though. Maybe it’s because so much time has now passed – more than 70 years – since the...