The Holocaust survivor’s response to suffering was to create joyful children’s books.
Holocaust
You cannot bear witness with a single word like genocide. Yet Night describes exactly what happened to me.
Ukraine, 1941
In Rachel Seiffert's novel, the characters' fears unite them as they watch and wait.
Dreaming in Israel
In Aharon Appelfeld's novel, a teenage Holocaust survivor sleeps, remembers, and learns to speak anew.
We need to study peace a lot harder than those who are studying war.
The Holocaust was perpetrated against specific groups of people. Is this fact a crucial part of every retelling?
Two compelling novels reveal the horrors of forced displacement.
Twins with a Nazi doctor
Is it possible for two 12-year-olds to retain their innocence in a place like Auschwitz?
Elie Wiesel has died. Reading the obituaries, the thing that astounds me is the thing that has always astounded me: how young he was. Eighty-seven now, in 2016. I’ve been burying World War II veterans throughout my years of pastoral ministry. How could Wiesel only be 87?
In 1920, not long after the Great War, a little-known agitator gave a speech in Munich on the topic, "Why Are We Anti-Semites?" The speaker concluded that it was important to prevent Germany “from suffering a death by crucifixion." Of course this agitator became quite well known—it was Adolf Hitler—and we know what his antisemitism led to.