Tag: Holocaust

Meryl Ain on “Shadows We Carry”

Author Meryl Ain talks to Lilith about twins, bloodlines, and Jewish identity in her post-Holocaust novel, “Shadows We Carry.”

Yahrzeit

“It was not done in my parents’ household.”

Would Whoopi Goldberg Have Been Punished If…?

Race in the United States is most certainly real. But just because something is constructed to be a social reality, does not mean it is true or based on facts and science.

Violence, Loss and Healing—Emily Barth Isler’s “Aftermath”

I love showing a roadmap to forgiveness in the book. In a story that shares more than enough examples of how life can be horribly unfair and sad, I want kids to see examples of how things can go well or be done helpfully. How things can go right.

Judy Batalion, a First Class Disrupter

Revolvers hidden in loaves of bread and teddy bears… Explosives hidden in their underwear… Jewish teenagers at Auschwitz who stole gunpowder and helped blow up a crematorium?! None of these stories had made it into the tales of the Holocaust that I’d heard.