Join the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program for a lecture by Michael Berkowitz, professor of modern Jewish history at University College, London, Wednesday, March 22, at 7 p.m. at the Landmark Centre ...
His three older brothers led the Bielski partisans, which attacked Nazi soldiers and saved 1,200 fellow Jews. Aron was a scout who ferried warnings to a ghetto. By Richard Sandomir Aron Bell, who had ...
“Wartime Poland was the closest thing to Hell on this earth,” Father Jan Januszewski, a Dachau survivor, told me shortly before he passed away in Key Largo, Florida, in 1987. When the Germans defeated ...
War forces impossible choices, and few are as paradoxical as Jewish soldiers in Hitler’s army. Torn between ancestry and duty, they navigated a world where loyalty, identity, and survival constantly ...
Stationed in Lithuania, Chiune Sugihara granted transit visas that allowed holders to escape Europe and travel through Japan as they sought safety abroad Francine Uenuma - History Correspondent In the ...
When Americans are willing to consider the worst savagery that humans can inflict on one another, they might visit the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., or read about Nazi Germany’s systematic ...
New books and a National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene play reclaim the poet-parachutist for an era marked by antisemitism and moral drift, writes a rabbi and author. More than 80 years after she ...