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Visiting Auschwitz with Holocaust Survivors and a Nova Survivor

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The Hidden Synagogue of Theresienstadt

With high walls, barbed wire, and hundreds of local gendarmes and Nazi overseers, escape from Terezin (Theresienstadt) was virtually impossible. Within the walls of this old garrison town, despite starvation, overcrowding, disease, and the constant threat of deportation, after long days of back-breaking labor Jewish inmates were relatively free to organize their own activities in […]

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Muslim Heroes of the Holocaust

When the Hussainiyat Al-Rasool Al-Adham Islamic Centre opened in the heavily Jewish London neighborhood of Golders Green in 2017, they promised to reach out to Jewish residents. In January 2019, they planned to launch a major exhibit highlighting Muslim heroes who saved Jews during the Holocaust. Local Muslims were outraged. Some were particularly incensed that […]

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Kidnapped from Nova: Moran Yanai’s 54 Days in Gaza
For weeks before October 7th, Moran Stela Yanai kept getting warnings she couldn’t explain. Then came Nova, a kidnapping, and 54 days of holding on to faith in Gaza.

On October 6th, 2023, Moran Stela Yanai cried all day. She wasn’t sad; she just couldn’t stop. “I thought something was wrong with me,” she says. The next morning she was kidnapped from the Nova music festival and taken to Gaza, where she was held for 54 days. Looking back, she sees a sequence she […]

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The BBC Broke Her Because She’s a Jew
Award-winning producer Lucie Kon says the BBC sidelined her for being Jewish after October 7, then fired her. She sued, won £400,000, and is now telling her story.

When Lucie Kon walked onstage in New York to accept an Emmy for We Will Dance Again, her harrowing documentary about Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attacks, she was terrified. Her employer, the BBC, had told her not to mention that it was a BBC film. The BBC hadn’t paid for her flight or her hotel. […]

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