Lost and Found
Among some of the baby gifts my parents received was a little gold Magen David that managed to survive the horrors of the Shoah.
The “Survivors’ Talmud” and the Obligation to Remember
The story of the printing of the Survivors’ Talmud is a remarkable testament to the enduring emunah of the few who survived Churban Europa, and who sought to recreate organized Jewish life, ritual observance and Torah learning in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust.
Tragedy and Consolation
She told him, with the strength of faith that only a survivor could muster: “Max, you need to stop; we don’t run anymore.”
The Warsaw Ghetto: An Eyewitness Account
Dr. Hillel Seidman (1914-1995) was a researcher, author and Chassidic Jew who kept a diary chronicling daily life in the Warsaw Ghetto. Written between July 1942 and January 1943, the diary, miraculously rescued from Nazi hands, records the Ghetto’s last days. Dr. Seidman managed to escape the ghetto in January 1943, and ended up […]