HOLOCAUST MEMORY
28.12.2020
The Turning Point of the War
Review of 1941 by Andrew Nagorski We tend to think of D-Day as the turning point of WWII: the day the Allies landed in Normandy to liberate France, and the entire Europe, from the Nazi invaders. [...]
21.09.2020
America First during WWII
If any country could have helped save a significant proportion of the European Jews from the Holocaust it’s the United States. Reliable news about concentration and death camps started trickling [...]
03.08.2020
Young Zionists Unite: Bryan Leib’s new pro-Israel “Tribe”, HaShevet
The Jews, though perhaps a “tribe” (HaShevet), have always had significant internal differences. A people found in practically every nation around the world, the ethnic, racial, social, religious [...]
27.07.2020
Anti-Semitism in contemporary Hungary
Anti-Semitism has a long history in Hungary, nearly as long as the history of the Jews living in the country. In fact, Hitler was not the first to prescribe armband to mark, isolate and shame the [...]
06.07.2020
The Jewish National Fund: Growing Zionism
The Holocaust underscored for the Jewish people the necessity—and, many would argue, the historic right—of having their own nation. Deprived of full citizenship rights in many European countries [...]
22.06.2020
Adela Cojab Moadeb: Fighting BDS and anti-Semitism on U.S. college campuses
In her article in the New York Post (December 14, 2019) about her fight against anti-Semitism on New York University’s campus, pro-Israel Jewish activist Adela Cojab Moadeb explains the [...]
15.06.2020
„The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank” by Willy Lindwer
The Diary of Anne Frank constitutes one of the most important legacies of the Holocaust. The journal documents the experiences of a young Jewish girl, her family and acquaintances while they hid [...]
23.03.2020
The Armenian genocide and „The Promise”
As Peter Balakian points out in the Preface of his book, The Burning Tigris: The Armenian genocide and America’s response (New York: Harper Perennial, 2004), the Holocaust had a significant [...]
09.03.2020
The Vilnius Jewish Ghetto
A few weeks after his daughter’s wedding, on September 23, 2001, Joe Sabrin’s father, Abrashe Sabrin, passed away. He was one of the few Holocaust survivors of Vilnius (Vilna). As he was going [...]
10.02.2020
Small town America and the Banality of Racism
Never in my life did I think that my small town, Saline Michigan, would make national and international news, much less for something as negative as racism. Originally a tiny farming community, [...]
