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Broken Beginnings: Chapter Thirteen

This place is not a place of honour

Treblinka II – Extermination Camp

Accountability For Sexual Misconduct But No Justice For A Real Ongoing Holocaust

The Abuse of Justice and the Silencing of the Murdered

“Adolf Hitler: The Man Whose Actions Led to the Deaths of Millions”

Who was Adolf Hitler

A Thorough Analysis of ‘Schindler’s List’: From Industrialist to Righteous Among the Nations

DISCLAIMER: The following analysis discusses real historical events that affected real people during the Holocaust of World War II. If this…

Auschwitz-Birkenau

Dehumanisation within genocides

The Rwandan Genocide-

Let The Doves Fly — How Hadassah is a Lifechanging Moment in My Life

Think about the dog days of summer. Think about concerts and festivals. Finally, think about Woodstock. That iconic moment in the summer of…

Why Did Adolf Hitler Kill Approximately Six Million Jews? The History of the Holocaust Explained

History is full of events that have changed the world. Some brought hope and progress, while others brought pain and destruction. Among the…

Seeking a Safe Harbor

Stories About Refugees from Refugees

While the World Watched

While we scrolled, shopped, and slept safely in our beds, They were bombed, shelled, and buried under rubble.

Adolf Hitler: How One Man Dragged the World Into Its Darkest Chapter.

Soon All We Will Have Are the Stories

On June 11, 2026, Jane Yolen died at her home in Hatfield, Massachusetts. She was 87 years old. Her daughter, Heidi Stemple, shared the…

Poem about the Holocaust

Elie’s Prank

Why Historical Fiction Helps Us Understand History Better Than Textbooks

History books tell us what happened. Historical fiction helps us understand what it felt like. When we read about wars, persecution, or…

I Never Thought of Myself as a Dark Tourist

When travel took me into dark, sad places

Beyond Labels: Meeting Anne Frank, the Teenager

In my school days, we had an excerpt from The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. It was a yet another lesson for me then. Given the age…

The Purple Triangle

A random sunny and rainy day will come and a group of preachers will knock at your door. They are wearing casual clothing and carrying a…

Genocide and Israel (Part 4 of 5)

The Pale, the Darkest Shadow, and the Moving Signpost

The Thoughts of One of Many

When I first learned about Anne Frank, I think I was in middle school; 7th grade maybe. History was never my favorite subject however…

To jest ta pierdolona demokracja

Ja się zastanawiam jak ja mam wyjść do góry. To wszystko, co ja piszę nie dociera do tych niewolników, którzy są przy władzy i jak psy…

She Wrote So We Would Remember

A Holocaust Memoir by Tova “Gizy” Shared in Her Own Words

The Bookshelf: The Tattoist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

If anything, the lesson history repeatedly teaches is that empathy must not end with those whose stories we know best.

Power, Not Principle: How the West Selectively Dispensed Justice After the Holocaust

The world did not create Israel because it believed in justice. It created Israel because it was convenient. And the clearest proof of this…

What the Holocaust Teaches Us About Freedom, Democracy, and Our Founding Principles

Commemorating America 250

The Book That Helped Keep Me Alive in Prison

There are certain books people describe as “life-changing.”

A ring for a Nazi?

The Holocaust

June 12: The Red-and-White Checkered Book: The Day Anne Frank Received Her Diary

On the morning of June 12, 1942, a young Jewish girl woke up early in her family’s apartment on Merwedeplein in Amsterdam. It was her 13th…

Son of Saul : The Rejection of Holocaust Aestheticization and Hollywood Tropes

There have been countless films about the Holocaust, and I don’t think any of them can ever fully capture the scale of what actually…

Broken Beginnings Chapter Nine:

Deux Enfants, Deux Chemins

Une histoire par Rutviij Casola Gare de Lyon, 2 janvier 1944. Dans le France occupée par les allemands, il existe deux garçons dont les…

The Anatomy of a Descent: Inside Omer Bartov’s Israel: What Went Wrong?

The question embedded in the title of Omer Bartov’s latest book, Israel: What Went Wrong? (published April 2026 by Farrar, Straus and…

Comfort Guaranteed

With a peculiar, almost musical cadence still echoing in their stride, they reached a ridge where the road bent downward. From there, Babe…

Justice, justice shall you pursue .

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Gypsy Country

We lie together on the couch and watch Legally Blonde. I give her pecks on the cheek and she feigns resistance, “no, stop, don’t”, she…

Rotman: Introducing the Law Prosecution of the Terrorists of the October Seven Massacre

Text rendered via Dual-Core compilation (Human author + LLM co-processor). Formatting is mine. Original Hebrew and Russian version of this…

Behind-the-Scenes: Preserving the Shoes that Holocaust Victims Left Behind

For over 30 years, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has displayed victims’ shoes recovered from Nazi killing centers and camps —…

73 percent

There is a number that ruins everything. One that cannot be massaged away by wreath-laying ceremonies, does not disappear behind two…

CIB realiza cerimônia de Iom HaShoá e recebe sobrevivente do Holocausto

Atividades reuniram alunos em momentos de memória, educação e escuta com a sobrevivente Ruth Tarasantchi

A Family’s Treasures, Hidden Since the Holocaust

Rescuing One Jewish Family’s History from Under the Floorboards

Hertha Berlin’s supporters give face to club member murdered in Holocaust

In 2018, a group of Hertha Berlin supporters was looking into the club’s history under the Nazis.

Holocaust Remembrance Day: Rethinking Tragedy Through the Law of Human Connection

One of the pressing questions I am often asked in response to great tragedies is this: If the Creator — a loving, caring, and bestowing…

History of Holocaust Remembrance Day

Yom HaShoah

Writing From the Edge: An Act of Ancestral Restitution

Ulrich Semrau ©️2026

Holocaust Remembrance Day

Today marks 81 years since the liberation of the concentration camps during the Holocaust.

White Murder: ICE, the Heydrich Protocol, and the Bureaucracy of Erasure

The ghostly images of trains in the documentary Shoah function as the core theme of Claude Lanzmann’s narrative, but also as part of the…

The pain of remembering for those who can’t remember anymore .

Yahudiler, yalanlar ve Faşizm

Ekrandaki yazıyı bir daha okuyorum, doğru mu gördüm diye. Öfke yavaş yavaş yükseliyor içimde; aslında öfkeden başka bir şey, kızgınlık, ama…

Julius Hesse: The Holocaust victim that saved Arminia Bielefeld

Julius Hesse was a Jewish businessman, born in the German region of Ostwestfalen.

Between Niemöller’s Lines: A Contemplation of Those Left Out

An article considering the survivors left out of one of the Holocaust’s most famous poems, and what their omission might mean for us today.