I saw tonight a documentary, Into the Arms of Strangers. It focuses on the lives of 10,000 primarily Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and the Free City of Danzig who found refuge [...]
“To take a child from its mother seemed to be the lowest thing a human being could do,” one journal entry went, describing the moment when the Krauses met with parents in Austria. “Yet it [...]
By Jonathon Kaufman Introduction I have always wanted to know about the people who facilitated the immigration of 18,000 European Jews (many of them penniless) in the late 1930’s and early 1940’s to Shanghai, saving them [...]
“When they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people” Heinrich Heine, German Jewish Poet Prophetically, Heinrich Heine in 1821 predicted that those people who burn books ultimately burn people. Sadly, he anticipated both the [...]
Introduction After reading The Washing War: FDR’s Inner Circle by James Lacey I feel there is sufficient explicit and implicit facts to charge key State Department and Army officials that they “acquiesced in the Murder [...]
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it" --George Santayana Pew research uncovered the following: Most U.S. adults know what the Holocaust was Most know approximately when it happened Two-Thirds [...]
Last week, Paul Volcker, one of our greatest Chairmen of the Federal Reserve, passed away. Volcker’s most notable accomplishment was his successful struggle to subdue inflation in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. Volcker [...]
By Lynne Olson Personal Thoughts For me, the struggle against Fascism represented the clearest example of good versus evil. I would have loved to have actively participated on the side of those who favored [...]
Introduction John XXIII introduced a turning point in history and initiated important reforms for the Church. He was a conservative that sought to cure the Church because it needed radical surgery. Under his leadership, the [...]
Today’s New York Times the article highlighted the fate of books stolen by the Nazis. Tens of millions of books were taken from the Rothschilds, other prominent Jewish families, and Jewish Academic organizations Strangely [...]
I recently returned from Portugal where I met with two important people in the Portuguese Jewish Community. (Jose Carp who headed the Portuguese Jewish Community for 14 years and Hugo Vaz, a Portuguese Jewish historian. IntroductionAlthough [...]
By Simon Goodman The Orpheus Clock The title of Goodman’s book derives from one of his families prized heirlooms—The Orpheus Clock—that was not recovered by his family until some 70 years following World War [...]
For Jews, Israel is a Homeland Whether you travel East or West The Road to Home is Always Best Saying on a Plaque at my boyhood home Wailing Wall Temple Mount, Dome of the [...]
Dear Sidney: Because of you, I saw a wonderful movie. I shared my thoughts with friends. Doc I would like to encourage you to see the movie, Denial. The movie is based upon the acclaimed [...]
By Andrew Nagorski My sister, (Joella Werlin) knowing of my ongoing interest in World War II, sent me, The Nazi Hunters. While the book was not easy reading, it did provide me some interesting insights [...]
The Opposite of Love, is not Hate, it is Indifference Although today’s world has not descended to the detestable conditions associated with the Holocaust, I certainly feel that today’s perpetuators of these innumerable terrorist acts [...]
In a single evening in November 2006, Christie's sold nearly half a billion dollars of art, almost double the previous world auction record. Driving this sale were four paintings by Gustav Klimt that together sold [...]
Introduction: In my judgment (1) the abhorrent treatment of Jews following the end of World War II both in displaced persons’ camps or in their native countries such as Poland, Rumania, and Germany, (2) the [...]
Foreword People must remember the Holocaust as a insult to humanity. The lives lost were not only great in number, but offered so much to mankind. How the world would have been different if the [...]
June 5- June 10, 1967 “We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand. We shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood.” Egypt’s President Gamal Nasser Introduction: The perceived change in [...]
Unfortunately, I have only seen scattering comments that refer to some concern on Rebecca Werlin’s part regarding the religious affiliation of Israel. Further, I understand that Rebecca feels that a theological state might not [...]
Request: To Katy White: I am writing this essay given your interest in the issue of historic anti-Semitism by the Catholic Church. I request that this essay not be sent to anyone. My reasons [...]
By Allis Radosh and Ronald Radosh Dust Jacket “Even though I knew how the story would end, A Safe Haven still had me sitting on the edge of my seat, watching Harry Truman weigh the [...]
Several weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to attend an 80th birthday commemoration for Elie Wiesel at the 92nd Y. In hindsight, I wish over the years I had attended more of his lectures because [...]
Personal Background: On reflection, I would not have written an essay about Hollywood’s failure to produce movies that focused on anti-Semitism and the Holocaust from 1930-1962 without the influence of both of my parents. [...]
“He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision—he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath--"The horror! The horror!” --Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Introduction: In 1899 [...]
By Bryan Rigg, a Cambridge University Researcher While many of us have heard the phrase, “Love and War make strange bedfellows,” many of us are not aware that many Jews served in the German army. [...]
Last week, I had the pleasure of listening to Scott Say, the author of Getting Our Groove Back. Mr. Shay articulated rationally the dramatic decline in the number of Jews in America, the negative [...]
About a decade ago, I was intrigued by the prospect of somebody writing a play about Truman’s decision to recognize Israel. Over the years, I have reflected repeatedly about the strange sequence of events [...]
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may [...]
I wanted to express some of my personal thoughts after hearing the most articulate Palestinian woman in the last class. First of all, my primary point is that while I will spend my efforts challenging [...]
The recently released documentary, Paperclips, provides another compelling Holocaust project that seeks to create a legacy of tolerance through examination of the Nazi extermination of 6 million Jews, including some 1.5 million children below the [...]
Eloise and I are going to try to highlight our wonderful trip to Hamburg, Berlin, Prague, and Budapest. Our intention is to record our thoughts more in an ad hoc fashion rather than from a [...]
