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Talking with my Father; Talking for my Father
On a trip to visit my father and stepmother in 1976, I brought a cassette recorder and half a dozen blank cassettes with the intention of interviewing Dad. The first evening after dinner I brought it down to where Dad was sitting, reading the Yiddish edition of...
Never Forget
I remember reading The Diary of Anne Frank as a tween and being drawn to her positivity and hopefulness despite the constant fear of discovery. Later, in college, I read Dr. Victor Frankl’s memoir Man’s Search for Meaning for a psychology class. That book, with its...
Candle and Chronicle Newsletter November 2025
It’s not often that a Holocaust exhibit changes the way I think about Holocaust education, but the new traveling Auschwitz exhibit made me realize that we have been missing something important. In this bizarre time of Nazi appreciation, we need to be talking about the perpetrators. [Redirects to Mailchimp]
Talking with my Father; Talking for my Father
On a trip to visit my father and stepmother in 1976, I brought a cassette recorder and half a dozen blank cassettes with the intention of interviewing Dad. The first evening after dinner I brought it down to where Dad was sitting, reading the Yiddish edition of...
Never Forget
I remember reading The Diary of Anne Frank as a tween and being drawn to her positivity and hopefulness despite the constant fear of discovery. Later, in college, I read Dr. Victor Frankl’s memoir Man’s Search for Meaning for a psychology class. That book, with its...
Candle and Chronicle Newsletter November 2025
It’s not often that a Holocaust exhibit changes the way I think about Holocaust education, but the new traveling Auschwitz exhibit made me realize that we have been missing something important. In this bizarre time of Nazi appreciation, we need to be talking about the perpetrators. [Redirects to Mailchimp]
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]
Do the voices of the Nazis have a place in Holocaust education?
The words of the Nazis show us how ordinary people can become psychopathic killers. Can we use this evidence to teach about the perpetrators of the Holocaust without legitimizing their beliefs? [redirects to the Times of Israel]
Educating a Crowd
At the beginning of 2025, we saw a drastic switch in policy and national attitude. As expected with the inauguration of a new president, we were attempting to adjust. As the changes became more intense, I found myself participating where I could. I attended a protest...
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...
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]
Talking with my Father; Talking for my Father
On a trip to visit my father and stepmother in 1976, I brought a cassette recorder and half a dozen blank cassettes with the intention of interviewing Dad. The first evening after dinner I brought it down to where Dad was sitting, reading the Yiddish edition of...
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