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Janet Bond BrillThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
My father served in the U.S. Army in Italy. My mother served as a lieutenant in the WAVES, the Navy’s women’s reserve, stationed stateside. Both...
There is a photograph sitting on my desk as I write this. It is from 1948, the year Israel declared itself into existence and was immediately fighting...
In November 1946, a twelve-year-old girl stood before Pius XII and received a medal. She was a Jewish child from the Warsaw Ghetto, passing as a...
On Ringelblum’s milk cans, Anne Frank’s diary, and a grandmother who softened her story for the camera There is a page I cannot stop thinking...
September 1947. Two sections of one magazine. A boy behind wire. An actor among the Voices of the Dead. They would never meet. There is a Yiddish word...
“Kajtek,” age 9 – Warsaw Uprising, 1944 Child courier of the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa). Stefcia (Kajtek), age 9, during the Warsaw...
Shakespeare in a Nazi prison camp and the ten-year-old little girl who kept the album In the winter of 1944, two Jews were hiding in plain sight...
Why Jews Still Fight for Home — and What America Owes I have a photograph of my father-in-law standing alone in a desert, holding a rifle. On the...
How Holocaust survivors built an orphanage for starving Jewish children — and the world’s first permanent Holocaust Museum Kloster Indersdorf lies...