To Rock In The Sun, By: Our Readers
There will be bad times, for you, Mirele, I know. But just think about me holding you, rocking you to sleep in the sunlight. Keep that sunlight in your heart always.
View ArticleA Spiritual Revolt, By: Debbie Shapiro
Surie couldn’t take it any longer. She couldn’t watch her friends suffer because of her desire for a mitzvah. She wondered when the commandant would begin...
View ArticleScary Memories, By: Vanessa Falagian
I hear cries all around me. I can smell the sickness in the air, hear the cold back-shivering screams of people being shot or beaten, of women and children...
View ArticleOur Future, By: Debbie Shapiro
They danced with a surge of energy that they had not felt before. If a Jewish child exists in this world, then he can be taught the Torah, and the chain of...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Victory, By: Debbie Shapiro
“We used to be friends in Europe, a long time ago, before the war. He was such a wonderful person; it’s not surprising that he’d have a grandson like you.”
View ArticleMissing Children, By: Debbie Shapiro
Prior to the holocaust approximately 1.6 million Jewish children were living in Nazi occupied Europe. An estimated 1.5 million of them were murdered...
View ArticleThe Power of Gratitude, By: Debbie Shapiro
Maybe this was a trap? He glanced around the lobby. They were alone. “You are a German,” he said to the doorman, pointedly looking into his eyes. “I am a Jew..
View ArticleMy Story, By: Solomon Radasky
When they asked my mother for jewelry and furs, she said she had none. So they shot her and my older sister too...
View ArticleThe White Angel of Auschwitz, By: Joseph Friedenson
I began checking one infirmary barrack after another. Everyone knew the name Orlean, but no one knew where she could be found...
View ArticleThe Brother's Blood, By: David Kranzler
Something much more drastic had to be done. But Rabbi Schonfeld at first did not dare spell out his plans. He was afraid he would...
View ArticleStill Burning, By: Breslev Israel staff
As told to Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, zt'l - We stood there, frightened and excited. Who would have dreamed that one small flame could give off so much light? Suddenly, a German...
View ArticleThe Pin Cushion, By: Rabbi Lazer Brody
The little Polish girls grabbed my mother and turned her into a living pin cushion; she came home a bloody mess. That same night, she and her parents left Grodno…
View ArticleIn Polish Forest Fields, By: Racheli Reckles
The Polish people were just as guilty as the Nazis for killing innocent Jews. The following story will show you a side of the Polish people very few of you know about…
View ArticleAnya, By: Elisheva Burda
“You are a murderer of children, and I am not afraid of you,' the brave little girl boldly told the Jew-hating witch. That little girl was Anna Burda - my very special sister…
View ArticlePesach Sheni 1945, By: I.I. Cohen
We prayed that the thunderous explosions would go on forever, and eventually fell asleep to the beautiful sound of the bombs...
View ArticleKaddish, By: Alexander Kimel
I often think of Chana, Tonka, Rachel. How did they die? Were they scared or resigned? Did they know that at the end of the journey, two hours after...
View ArticleThe Brit, By: Debbie Shapiro
'In your blood you shall live.' How very appropriate these words seemed to Perele when they were recited at her son's brit. Would she and her child live...
View ArticleHolocaust Remembrance Day: A Cruise and a Camp, By: Yehudit Channen
HOLOCAUST DAY is 21-Apr. If the guard was especially cruel, he won a visit to the camp brothel, made up of women inmates who were given more food...
View ArticleFrida's Story, By: Dr. Zev Ballen
How did Frida survive? Rav Shalom Arush said that there was actually a greater revelation of Hashem's Light in the Holocaust than there was during the time of the Holy Temple...
View ArticleLight in the Darkness, By: Rabbi Shalom Arush
Rabbi Shkop's image remained with him in the death camp. He would remember the warmth that he felt, and it gave him the strength to continue.
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