“My father never got to tell his story at the war crimes trials at Nuremberg—it’s taken decades for the truth to come out.”
The Holocaust
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Beyond Borders
“Everything a man keeps on himself, in cases of capture, can save his life.”
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In Search of Etty Hillesum
The work of a young Jewish diarist, writing in Amsterdam around the time Anne Frank began her famous diary, shows the transformation of pain into radical altruism.
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Telling About Auschwitz, Before It’s Too Late
His lover in Auschwitz helped him survive. Now he’s sharing his memories to help prevent the worst from happening again.
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Lovers in Auschwitz, Reunited 72 Years Later. He Had One Question.
The heart-warming story of Holocaust survivors David Wisnia and Helen Spitzer, young lovers at Auschwitz, who got to meet one last time before she died at 100 last year. At the meeting, “Zippi,” as she was known then, revealed she’d used her position as a privileged inmate and a graphic designer at the camp five […]
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My Terezin Diary
Octogenarian documentary filmmaker Zuzana Justman tells the story of her family’s imprisonment at Terezin, a Czech concentration camp also known as Theresienstadt, through the lens of what she didn’t write in the diary she kept then, which she relocated a few years ago.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
In a World Full of Cruelty and Injustice, Becoming a Mother Anyway
A visit to Auschwitz makes Eliza Margarita Bates only more determined to have a baby, despite her painful chronic illness.
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Liberation: a Love Story (and a Reckoning)
Rebecca Wong integrates new information into her understanding and appreciation of her grandfather, and how he survived the Holocaust.
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The End of Poker Night
Mindy Greenstein looks back on the gambling that was a big part of life with her Holocaust refugee parents.
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Cowards and Accomplices
A personal essay in which, in light of her own family’s experience during the Holocaust, Judith Hertog considers her ethical responsibilities in today’s world.