Yona Zeldis McDonough
A Q&A with Roxane Van Iperen, who realized her house in the woods was once a refuge for Jewish children.
These Jewish Sisters Ran a Safe Haven During the Nazi Occupation
Tag: Holocaust
Violence, Loss and Healing—Emily Barth Isler’s “Aftermath”
Yona Zeldis McDonough
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
Yona Zeldis McDonough
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.
A Q&A with Jennifer Robson, Author of “Our Darkest Night”
Yona Zeldis McDonough
A 1942 novel about an Italian Jewish woman trying to survive the Holocaust with the family of farmers who take her in.
Saving Leonardo de Vinci’s “Lady with the Ermine”
Yona Zeldis McDonough
A novel that traces the fraught journey of Leonardo de Vinci’s famous <em>Lady with the Ermine</em>, and how this priceless work of art was ultimately saved from the Nazis. </p>
Harbor From the Holocaust: The Jews of Shanghai
Aileen Jacobson
By Aileen Jacobson In 1941, Laura Margolis, the American Joint Distribution Committee’s first female field agent, was sent to Shanghai to help the nearly 20,000 Jews who had fled there… Read more »
Stitching for Survival: the Story of Holocaust Survivor Trudie Strobel
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Some artists work with a brush; others with a pen, and still others with their voices, bodies, or a musical instrument. Trudie Strobel’s instrument is a slender needle, and she wields it with fierce and incredible power.
How Family Separation in the Holocaust Affected My Life Forever
Liat Katz
My father’s separation from his parents at a young age left him a broken, forever-grieving man. Sometimes I felt his body was physically there, but his soul had long left.
I Walked Away Furious from an Auschwitz Exhibit: Here’s Why
Sarah Jake Fishman
“For an entire culture of people who recite ‘never again/le-olam lo,’ you’d think we’d recognize the signs when it is, in fact, happening again.”
