History
12 min read
On Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), as we remember the six million, Sobibor demands we remember something else: the moment when Jews marked for certain death rose up and demonstrated that even inside a killing factory, courage and defiance were still possible. They armed themselves with whatever the Nazis overlooked: axes smuggled from the camp's […]
Human Interest
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It was 1944. A teenage boy, Aryeh Leibish Gottesman, had been rounded up by the Nazis with his mother and seven siblings. They were forced into cattle cars full of thousands of Jewish prisoners. Their destination? Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Aryeh, who went by his middle name, Leibish, and the other prisoners suffered on the train. […]
Imagine the changes witnessed by someone born more than a hundred years ago, journeying from a 1924 childhood in the gas-lit, Yiddish-speaking textile center of Lodz, Poland, to a centennial life in modern Philadelphia. Pearl Hinda Nagel’s story is one of extraordinary survival, stretching from the age of horse drawn ice wagons and communal wells […]
In the mountain villages of northern Portugal, behind closed doors and drawn curtains, families for centuries had been keeping secrets they could not fully explain. They lit candles on Friday evenings without knowing why. They avoided certain foods. They murmured prayers in garbled fragments of a language their grandparents' grandparents had once spoken freely. They […]
Video
An anti-Israel channel claimed Israel is digging under the Al-Aqsa mosque, threatening its foundations — and that archaeologists have found nothing to prove Jews ever lived here. We took a tour to find out for ourselves.
