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The Commanding Voice of Auschwitz
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What does the Voice of Auschwitz command? Jews are forbidden to hand Hitler posthumous victories. They are commanded to survive as Jews, lest the Jewish people perish. They are commanded to remember…

Contributor:

Emil L. Fackenheim

Places:

Toronto, Canada

Date:

1969

Subjects:

Holocaust, Memory, Antisemitism, Human rights, Secular Judaism

Categories:

Pedagogy & Schooling, Religion & Theology, Science & Philosophy
Hana’s Suitcase: A True Story
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Ever since she had sent the letter to Toronto, Fumiko had been a bundle of nerves. Would George Brady write back? Will he help us to know Hana? Even the letter carrier who…

Contributor:

Karen Levine

Places:

Toronto, Canada

Date:

2002

Subjects:

Children, Holocaust, Memory

Categories:

Literature, Children & Young Adult Literature, Firsthand Accounts
My First Day in the Twentieth Century
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The truth, the mathematical truth, is that a new century begins on January 1 of the year one of the new hundred-year time span. But it is the custom to celebrate a new century on January 1 of the last…

Contributor:

Melekh Ravitch

Places:

Montreal, Canada

Date:

1962

Subjects:

Time, Adolescence, Education, Family, Memory

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries