And one with a hopeful ending.| Fodors Travel Guide
The quiet whirr of my high-speed German train is a soothing reminder of Europe’s classy public transit I so miss in America. I’m headed south from Frankfurt towards a gentle landscape of vineyards, orchards and villages near the Rhine River and my Jewish father’s hometown. I’m much less comfortable with the muted conversations surrounding me. Like many children of Holocaust survivors, I grew up instinctively wary of the German language and all things German. I’m on a symbolic jou...| Trink Magazine
From the spring of 1945 until the summer of 1950, the Bergen-Belsen DP camp was one of the most vibrant Jewish communities anywhere in the world, having emerged almost phoenix-like in the immediate wake of the Holocaust. The post Josef Rosensaft and the Displaced Persons Camp of Bergen-Belsen: Remembering My Father appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Since coming home from Germany, I have been trying to figure out how to put this experience into words. I am truly so grateful that I stepped out of my comfort zone and went on this trip.| Classrooms Without Borders
In this inspiring episode, Vicki Atkinson and I are talking with author, Linda Broenniman. Linda has written a great family story, The Politzer Saga. She tells us about the offhand comment that rev…| The Heart of the Matter
Introduction| Kotzk Blog
Ethan Zadoff discusses what Israel education should look like post-October 7.| The Lehrhaus
The real Jerusalem syndrome isn’t the one your tour guide told you about. It’s what Saul Bellow experienced on his 1975 trip.| Jewish Review of Books
We are pleased to present here an excerpt from Roman Dziarski’s How We Outwitted and Survived the Nazis: The True Story of the Holocaust Rescuers, Zofia Sterner and Her Family, accompanied by a personal introduction from the author. The book tells the story how his family rescued Jews from the Holocaust and survived WWII, against the backdrop of the realities of the Nazi and Soviet occupation of Poland.| Academic Studies Press
