Commentary: The Silent Time

…In the dark I see shining toward mefaces of epitaphswailing their song.Graves of the whole vanished Jewish worldblossom in my one-man tent.And I pray:Be a father, a mother to me,a sister, a brother, my own children, body-kinreal as pain, from.....

Hate Vanquished, Lives Remembered

There are few first-person accounts of the Riga Ghetto. There is ‘good’ reason for this: few survived. The Nazis and their just as brutal Latvian allies saw to that. Most of the Jews were rounded up, taken to the outskirts.....

From the Golden Gate to the Black Forest

The author escaped Germany as a child on the eve of World War II with his young sister. Living in San Francisco, they corresponded with their parents in Europe, who later disappeared. The author returned to Germany at the end.....

Margit’s Story

This engrossing autobiography is of a remarkable woman born into the assimilated Jewish upper-class in pre-World War 2 Austria. After a hair-raising escape from the Nazis she came penniless to the United States. Beginning as a dress finisher, her varied.....

One Bridge to Life

Dr. William Samelson was born in Poland. At the age of eleven, he was interned in various Nazi ghettoes and slave labor-death camps for six-and-a-half years. Liberated on 1May 1945 by the U.S. Army, he emigrated to the U.S. in.....

Renewal of Life: Healing from the Holocaust

At his mother's urging, the author, who later became a world-renowned psychoanalyst, escaped from Nazi-occupied France as a child. He was able to come to the United States. His mother was sent on a transport to Auschwitz.  Parens became an.....

I Dared to Live

While some 500,000 Jews were being brutalized inside the Warsaw Ghetto and systematically annihilated, a young and beautiful blonde, blue-eyed Jewish girl from a hasidic family was working in a Polish factory, outside the walls of the ghetto, where she.....