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Janet Bond BrillThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Edna Szurek sang and danced her way through Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Decades later, a Charlie Chaplin melody gave words to everything she had survived....
The mass shootings began in 1941. But in the Warsaw Ghetto, death by wall, ration card, disease, and cold had already begun. Open most accounts of the...
The first line of Jewish resistance in Warsaw was not a rifle. It was a seven-year-old slipping through a gap in the wall. She was seven the first...
There is a card in my files. A copy of it, anyway. The original is held at the Ghetto Fighters’ House archive in Israel, and I have looked at it...
Miriam Szurek walked into the most feared address in occupied Warsaw and came out alive. She was a Jewish girl hiding as a Polish Catholic child under...
I have read Yakov Szurek’s testimony, which sits at the Ghetto Fighters’ Museum, more times than I can count. This time, one line struck me:...
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...
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