An unlikely candidate.
Noor Inayat Khan was a princess, descended from royalty and daughter of a Sufi mystic. She was gently raised in Paris, taught the arts of...
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A little more Curious George...
You may recall that Hans and Margret Rey, the famous authors of Curious George, escaped Paris just as the Nazi tanks arrived in 1940. As...
One day at Skede Beach.
The town of Liepāja in Latvia lies only six miles from the beach, and of course, the townspeople loved to flock there in the summertime....
A different kind of Christmas.
Beginning in the early 1930s in Germany, Hanukkah was observed less and less publicly and became a private observance in Jewish homes....
Rosi and Arthur's Menorah.
Imagine your living room window in Kiel, Germany. The year is 1931 and a few months ago the Nazi Party moved into the concert hall across...
The pendant.
It happened this way… a most improbable series of events: The tiny newborn baby, blond-haired and blue-eyed, was hidden, bundled inside a...
One of a kind.
Ellie Wiesel – professor, author, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. Long before he was any of those things, though, he was a big...
Perfect sense.
The year was 1941; the place, Chisinev, Romania. The Romanian population rampaged through the streets, going door-to-door killing their...
The little expression.
I happened upon his picture quite by accident, scrolling through a post about Prague. That little expression, so alert and mischievous...
A remembrance of Leopold and Babette Oppenheimer
The young Oppenheimers opened an antique shop at Marktplatz 7 in 1908 and lived in a 2-room apartment above the store. There they raised...
In memoriam.
Eighty years ago this weekend, Operation Harvest Festival was carried out in the Lublin District of Poland on the orders of Heinrich...
They called her Granny.
The year was 1945. The war was over, and the horrors of the concentration camps had become known. The almost total destruction of Jewish...
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