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Janet Bond Brill

Janet Bond Brill

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A Memorial Day Reflection

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...

25.05.2026 30

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Janet Bond Brill

What We Are Forgetting: A Requiem for Israel and America

What We Are Forgetting: A Requiem for Israel and America

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...

20.05.2026 50

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Janet Bond Brill

A Jewish Child, Three Popes, and the One Who Said Nothing

A Jewish Child, Three Popes, and the One Who Said Nothing

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...

18.05.2026 40

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Janet Bond Brill

The Power and the Heartbreak of the Written Word

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...

14.05.2026 40

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Janet Bond Brill

Beshert · בַּאשֶׁערט

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...

29.04.2026 80

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Janet Bond Brill

Kajtek – A Child in Disguise, a Jewish Martyr, and the Name She Carried into War

“Kajtek,” age 9 – Warsaw Uprising, 1944 Child courier of the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa). Stefcia (Kajtek), age 9, during the Warsaw...

14.04.2026 60

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Janet Bond Brill

To Be or Not to Be at Stalag X-B

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...

19.03.2026 60

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Janet Bond Brill

The War That Never Ended

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...

02.03.2026 80

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Janet Bond Brill

From a Bavarian Monastery to Israel’s First Holocaust Memorial

How Holocaust survivors built an orphanage for starving Jewish children — and the world’s first permanent Holocaust Museum Kloster Indersdorf lies...

28.02.2026 90

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Janet Bond Brill

The Jester Who Mocked Death

07.02.2026 50

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Janet Bond Brill

The Fury That Fell on Warsaw

30.01.2026 70

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Janet Bond Brill

How Edna and Harry Met

29.01.2026 60

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Janet Bond Brill