We shall survive
I'd like to think that my friend Miriam, along with her mother and sister, were three of the voices singing this song in Bergen-Belsen a mere week after liberation from the Nazis.
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Never again. Never forget.
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. I'm a little late, but it's really never too late to remember not to forget. In a weirdly hopeful sign, there might be a small corner in Egypt — of all places — that isn't forgetting: A new book which does not deny the Holocaust
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German historians have announced as news the fact that the Nazis intended to expand their Holocaust to Palestine. I'm including the whole Reuters article here because (a) it's fascinating, (b) it touches directly on my father's war involvement, and (c) it touches indirectly on my mother's war: Nazi Germany planned
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