Working through collective sin
Susan Neiman considers how Americans might learn from Germany.
Holocaust
The abundance of giving
The line between human and nonhuman
Alice Hoffman’s Holocaust novel collapses the boundaries between reality and fantasy.
I was outraged. I wanted to burn it all down. I wanted to pray.
Bearing witness, challenging God, voicing lament
The man who volunteered to be imprisoned at Auschwitz
In the face of evil, we tend to keep our heads down. Not Witold Pilecki.
In praise of Elie Wiesel
Two tributes that offer behind-the-scenes glimpses of the beloved teacher
The Holocaust survivor’s response to suffering was to create joyful children’s books.
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?