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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...
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...
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...
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]
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]
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]
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