Copyright protection or detective’s clue? The story of an odd signature, left in a book, which revealed an entire family history – and the one daughter who survived to tell it.
Sara Braverman: The Paratrooper Who Didn’t Jump
Hannah Senesh, Haviva Reik, and Sara Braverman set out to parachute into Europe on behalf of their brothers and sisters living under Nazi rule. Of the three, only Sara survived. This is her story.
The Rabbi, the Rebbe, and the Japanese Plan to Bring Jews to China
How one scheme to resettle Jewish World War II refugees in East Asia was serendipitously discovered by a New York rabbi.
Meyer Levin: A Forgotten American Jewish Writer and the Controversy Over Anne Frank
A novelist, journalist, filmmaker and passionate Zionist activist, Levin left behind a rich and influential body of work. Today, however, he is remembered primarily for one dramatic chapter in his life: his role in bringing “The Diary of Anne Frank” to international attention, and the painful public controversy that erupted when the diary was adapted for Broadway
A Ballerina in Auschwitz: Dr. Edith Eger’s Choice
The many obituaries published about her around the world focused on the horrific moment that became inseparable from her public story: dancing before Dr. Mengele at Auschwitz. But the life of Edith Eger, who began as an anonymous Jewish girl in Hungary and became a celebrated psychologist in the United States, was infinitely larger than any headline. It is an extraordinary and deeply moving story of courage, faith, wisdom, and unyielding resilience.
From Belarus to Shanghai: The Mir Yeshiva’s Journey of Survival
The extraordinary story of hundreds of yeshiva students who crossed Russia by train, sailed to Japan, and reunited in Shanghai. A story of enduring faith, of a library rebuilt under impossible conditions, and of a journey that helped shape the future of the yeshiva world.
The Notebook Saved From the Death Train
Eighty-two years ago, on a night of terror for the Jews of Suplacu de Barcău in Romania, Rabbi Shmuel Klein managed to pass a modest notebook containing his Torah writings into safe hands at the town’s train station, just before he was sent to Auschwitz. Recently, it reached the National Library of Israel. This is its story.
Jupp Weiss and the Passover Seder at Bergen-Belsen
Before the war, Josef “Jupp” Weiss was a promising department store manager in Cologne. Against his will, this modest man became the prisoners’ representative in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, doing all he could to ease their suffering. On the night of the Passover Seder, at the edge of despair, his words bore witness to immense inner strength alongside a sober and painful grasp of reality.
The Living Encyclopedia of Lost Jewish Communities
Moshe Tzinovitz filled page after page with the stories of rabbis and communities that no longer exist. Now, as his scattered archive is finally being organized, a portrait emerges of the man who devoted his life to preserving the memories of others, while leaving little order in his own papers.
From Nazi Germany to October 7: A Family’s Story of Survival, Resilience and Memory
The Heilbronners were a Jewish-German family who fled their home in Stuttgart following the Nazis’ rise to power. They arrived in the Land of Israel in the 1930s, with one of their sons later settling in Kibbutz Be’eri. A family diary, which documented the pre-war era in Germany, narrowly avoided destruction on October 7, 2023, as it was brought to the National Library shortly before.
