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When Jan Gross’ Neighbors first appeared in Poland two years ago, with its grisly account of the July 10, 1941, slaughter of 1,600 Jews in the small northeastern town of Jedwabne, it sank like a stone…
It was taken on Saturday, March 20, 1937, in the town of Swienciany, which lies on the Polish border with Lithuania approximately 50 miles northeast of Vilna. Nine girls and two boys, together with…
I was telling you about the old man, our rabbi, how he was walking out in front, and we Krushniker dignitaries were walking behind him. sighing and moaning and not allowed to speak a word. If only our…
These last words—spoken in all seriousness—completely confused Heinz. He thought he hadn’t heard right.
“Sorry—What do you have?”
“Patrol duty—Jacob can take care of the money now; you’ve seen that…
“Is it true, dear mother,What grandfather tells us?That a chalice stands in heavenBefore the throne of God?“And with each blow struck usAt the hands of cruel men,Does a tear fall in our chaliceFrom…
The philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch (1831–1896) was the leading benefactor of world Jewry in his time. He established the Baron de Hirsch Fund to assist immigrants to the United States and…
On the sixth and seventh of April a pogrom took place in Kishinev! A band of Christians attacked the Jewish townspeople and with the greatest cruelty they…