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{LISTEN} “Inspirational Women” podcast interview with Kate Daniels, Movin’ 92.5 Seattle

Articles, Blog, News, Podcast, RadioMarch 8, 2026834Views 0Likes 0Comments

"Inspirational Women" podcast interview with Host Kate Daniels on Movin 92.5 FM in Seattle, WA. LIVE Interview w/Janet March 8, 2026 LISTEN HERE 3/8/26 – Dr. Janet Bond Brill Inspirational Women is a weekly podcast that features women who are leaders in their field, entrepreneurs, authors or women carving new paths in education, the environment, charities,…

HaKol Magazine – Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley

Blog, History, NewsMarch 8, 2026288Views 0Likes 0Comments

Thank you Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley for celebrating Allentown’s Edna Brill for Women’s History Month. In ‘Who will tell my story?’ Edna once asked. Daughter-in-law Janet Bond Brill answers with a book on glamours grandma who foiled the Nazis as a kid.

The War That Never Ended

Articles, Blog, History, NewsMarch 1, 2026174Views 0Likes 0Comments

Why Jews Still Fight for Home — and What America Owes I have a photograph of my father-in-law standing alone in a desert, holding a rifle. On the back, in Edna’s handwriting, it says: “Harry Brill, 1948, Israel — in the Army.” He survived the Holocaust by hiding in the forests of eastern Galicia. In 1947…

The Answer to the Monument

Articles, Blog, History, NewsFebruary 23, 2026178Views 0Likes 0Comments

In the center, rising in bronze, is Nathan Rapoport’s monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Mordechai Anielewicz stands at the front, grenade in hand, the fighters massed behind him. The monument was unveiled on April 19, 1948, the fifth anniversary of the uprising, on the ground where the ghetto once stood.

From a Bavarian Monastery to Israel’s First Holocaust Memorial

Articles, Blog, History, NewsFebruary 19, 2026214Views 0Likes 0Comments

Kloster Indersdorf (Bavaria) and Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta’ot (Western Galilee, Israel). A twelfth-century monastery transformed into a survivor-run orphanage for Jewish children after the Holocaust, and the kibbutz founded by those survivors, where the world’s first permanent Holocaust Museum was established.

Publishers Weekly BookLife Prize

Articles, Blog, News, ReviewsFebruary 19, 2026325Views 0Likes 0Comments

Title: Little Edna's War - See Here Author: Janet Bond Brill, PhD Genre: Nonfiction/Memoir Audience: Adult "A gripping, well-done narrative that does justice to Edna's amazing story. The narrative is moving and vulnerable, reflecting on a terrifying time in history and examining the aftereffects of those experiences on the children who confronted them. Readers will grieve,…

A Day Trip to Auschwitz, 1989

Articles, Blog, NewsFebruary 17, 2026169Views 0Likes 0Comments

Two Holocaust survivors. Their first grandchild. And a dandelion picked from the grounds of the largest killing center in human history. Edna and Harry Brill with their first grandchild, Rachel Alana, at Auschwitz-Birkenau. June 1989. Image from Edna Brill's personal collection. Look at this photograph. A woman and a man stand in a field of tall…

Congregation Beth David, Amenia, NY – Sat., April 18, 2026

Blog, EventsFebruary 17, 2026204Views 0Likes 0Comments

It was an honor and a pleasure to have worked with Dr. Janet Brill. She was a guest speaker at my (our) Congregation in Amenia, New York on Saturday, April 18, 2026, and she presented a very touching and inspiring story, complete with slides, on her mother-in-law, Edna Stefania’s experience as a child during…

The Arithmetic of Survival

Articles, Blog, History, NewsFebruary 14, 2026225Views 0Likes 0Comments

The Arithmetic of Survival Ten Szureks entered the war. Four survived. The math did not end there. Miriam, Edna, and Yakov Szurek, postwar. Three siblings who survived the Holocaust on the Aryan side of Warsaw. Out of ten immediate family members, four survived. Look at this photograph. Three faces. A young woman.…

The Nazi Starvation Strategy

Articles, Blog, History, NewsFebruary 10, 2026226Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jewish refugees waiting in a soup line at a shelter at 33 Nalewki Street. Source: Yad Vashem. But watery soup cannot sustain a human being. The kitchens kept people alive a little longer. They did not keep people alive.