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Little Edna’s War by Janet Bond Brill tells the story of the youngest member of the Polish resistance.
In 1939, Edna Sherek’s Poland is invaded by Germany. Persecuted for being Jewish, her struggle for survival begins at seven, smuggling food into…
In the Warsaw Ghetto, where nearly 400,000 Jews were packed into 1.3 square miles, where the official ration was 184 calories a day, where bodies lay in the streets each morning waiting to be collected—
there was a man who made people laugh.
Nobody knew his first name.
Some said Moishele.
Others said Itzik.
Most…
A Beach in Nantucket. A Gas Chamber in Treblinka.
Summer of '42
Two meanings of “Summer of ’42.”
A coming-of-age romance for Americans. A season of mass murder for Europe’s Jews.
In 1971, I was fourteen, sitting in a darkened movie theater, watching Jennifer O’Neill break my heart.
Summer of ’42 was the film everyone was talking…
How Two Jewish Sisters Survived by Singing and Dancing for Their Lives
Aleja Szucha 25: Warsaw’s Most Feared Gestapo Detention Center
Every person in occupied Warsaw knew the address.
Aleja Szucha 25.
The Gestapo Detention Center.
The very words inspired terror throughout the city.
Once home to Poland’s Ministry of Religious Beliefs and Public…
