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To be Treated as an Equal
My father was born in Essen, Germany in 1926. He moved to Czechoslovakia in 1933 with his parents and sister to escape Nazi rule. Unfortunately, the "escape" only lasted until 1939 when Germans invaded Czechoslovakia. Luckily, my grandfather was on a business trip to...
An Audience of One
Hospitals are not usually known for being ideal performance venues. Yet, there I was, waiting to be taken to surgery, telling one of my Holocaust stories. The oddest part, though, was the reaction I received; it was perhaps the best one I have ever gotten. As I lay...
Candle and Chronicle Newsletter October 2025
L’Shanah Tovah! Happy New Year to you all! We could not be prouder of what we have accomplished this year or more excited about what we have planned for the next year. We are so grateful for the support and appreciations we have received from you throughout the year. Thank you for joining us on this journey. [Redirects to Mailchimp]
To be Treated as an Equal
My father was born in Essen, Germany in 1926. He moved to Czechoslovakia in 1933 with his parents and sister to escape Nazi rule. Unfortunately, the "escape" only lasted until 1939 when Germans invaded Czechoslovakia. Luckily, my grandfather was on a business trip to...
An Audience of One
Hospitals are not usually known for being ideal performance venues. Yet, there I was, waiting to be taken to surgery, telling one of my Holocaust stories. The oddest part, though, was the reaction I received; it was perhaps the best one I have ever gotten. As I lay...
Candle and Chronicle Newsletter October 2025
L’Shanah Tovah! Happy New Year to you all! We could not be prouder of what we have accomplished this year or more excited about what we have planned for the next year. We are so grateful for the support and appreciations we have received from you throughout the year. Thank you for joining us on this journey. [Redirects to Mailchimp]
Innocent Words, Deadly Meanings: How Language Enabled the Holocaust
“Words can be like tiny doses of arsenic: they are swallowed unnoticed, yet they accumulate their poison over time.”[1] In the early 1930s, Victor Klemperer noticed a change in how words were being used in Germany. Klemperer was a professor of linguistics at the...
Candle and Chronicle Newsletter December 2025
Happy Hannukah! A year ago, we added Jenna Price to our team to run our Storyteller Bureau. Jenna helps the storytellers find venues to tell their stories to the community. In the last year, she more than doubled the number of programs we offered. [Redirects to Mailchimp]
Small Miracles in the Darkest Times
“Master of the Universe, after all we have seen in Auschwitz, and all we have seen in burnt-down and destroyed Warsaw, we turn to you in this last moment with one request: protect this last remnant of the people of Israel and this last remnant who are giving their souls for the sanctity of the Lord…. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]
How Teach the Shoah Brought My Dad Back to Me
“There are two things they can never take from you — your intelligence, and your memories.” Aside from this admonition, I received precious little of my father’s story during his short lifetime. He never spoke outright of his experience as a child in Europe during...
Preserving the Memories of Holocaust Survivors
“I promise to keep your memory and tell your story.” One by one, eight storytellers stand in front of a Holocaust survivor in the library of Holocaust Museum LA in Los Angeles, CA and make this promise. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]
Candle and Chronicle Newsletter December 2025
Happy Hannukah! A year ago, we added Jenna Price to our team to run our Storyteller Bureau. Jenna helps the storytellers find venues to tell their stories to the community. In the last year, she more than doubled the number of programs we offered. [Redirects to Mailchimp]
Navigating the role of bystander: What can we do?
I am beginning to sympathize with the people of the 1930s – the people we describe as indifferent bystanders. I am also beginning to recognize that their stories are much too complicated for us to use the word indifferent. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]
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