Local author remembers his father’s struggle against Nazism
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER It’s hard to tell how angry Paul Mayer was at the Nazis who ended his law ...
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Struggling for mere existence in the Shoah
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER By the time the Soviet army reaches Dörnhau — death’s waiting house — prisoner 33031 has ...
Holocaust, genocide education bill progresses in Legislature
By ELANA WARREN / Assistant Editor Rep. Frank Hornstein (DFL-Minneapolis) introduced a bill on March 8 to mandate education about ...
Berlin today
The “Jewish Memorial Sculpture” was created by Will Lammert just prior to his death in 1957. Incomplete, the group of ...
Searching for a bridge to the past
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Jason Sommer had an uneasy childhood with a smart, gregarious father whose Shoah experience hovered just ...
Anti-vaxxers drift into antisemitism, insanity
The world learned in November about a new coronavirus variant called Omicron. The news isn’t good. Michael Osterholm, director of ...
A tour of Łódź
A shul stands abandoned in a building’s inner courtyard. (Photos: Mordecai Specktor) By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Łódź, Poland — Milena Wicepolska, ...
He remade his life in America
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR In a 2011 documentary, Sam Rafowitz: Remaking a Life, the eponymous subject comments: “About 15 and a ...
Netanyahu blundered as Syrian regime was on verge of collapse
By MOSHE GIT The Jewish annals of the post-WW II years are rife with complaints and accusations against the allies ...
Recipes from the Shoah
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Combining a desire for preservation with improvisation, and at great risk, Ilona Kellner created what may ...
