menu_open Columnists
Janet Bond Brill

Janet Bond Brill

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

Beshert · בַּאשֶׁערט

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 60

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

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 40

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

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 50

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

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 70

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

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 80

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Janet Bond Brill

The Jester Who Mocked Death

07.02.2026 40

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Janet Bond Brill

The Fury That Fell on Warsaw

30.01.2026 40

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Janet Bond Brill

How Edna and Harry Met

29.01.2026 50

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Janet Bond Brill