A special dedication in a copy of the book “Mesilat Yasharim” sparked some fascinating detective work tracing the history of the Austrian Jewish community during the Holocaust, and the story of a young man and his family who were murdered by the Nazis…
A Haredi Holocaust Hero in the Congo
“I am happy and proud that our mission is spreading the idea of loving one another, loving humanity, without paying attention to skin color.”
“My spiritual home destroyed itself”: Stefan Zweig’s Suicide Note
The letter with which Stefan Zweig took leave of the world is preserved today in the archives of the National Library of Israel
Before Liberation: Mourning the Holocaust in 1945
As the camps still operated in Europe, a call from Jerusalem to remember the victims and help the survivors was heeded across the globe…
This Jewish War Hero Protested the Nazis… Then Helped Defeat Them
A decorated German soldier in World War I, Richard Stern opposed Nazism from within. After fleeing, he joined the US Army at age 43, and soon became a hero there, as well…
They Jailed Him for Insulting Hitler on an Unopened Envelope
Convicted in Poland for insulting the head of a friendly nation, Jewish hero Nahum Halberstadt was freed on Christmas Day
The Star Austrian Poet’s Tragic and Forgotten Jewish “Muse”
Only at the gates of Auschwitz did ‘vivacious brunette’ Hedwig Bernhard let go of the gift she received from Rainer Maria Rilke…
Remembering Babi Yar When Others Didn’t
For two decades, one of the worst massacres of the Holocaust was all but forgotten
What Did ‘America’s Freud’ Think About Hitler?
Freud himself refrained from publicly psychoanalyzing the despot. Dr. W. Beran Wolfe didn’t…
Israel’s Astounding (and Imprecise) World Record
The unbelievable story of how 1,088 (or was it 1,122?) people flew aboard a single airplane as part of 1991’s Operation Solomon
