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Twice in two years, the world watched Warsaw burn and did not come. A nine-year-old Jewish girl survived both fires.…
Three documents tell the story of Miriam Dranger, a Jewish girl who sang for the Gestapo, saved her younger sister,…
“I was coincidentally born at Mila 18,” he says. “Most of you might know that that’s where the bunker was.…
There is a photograph sitting on my desk as I write this. It is from 1948, the year Israel declared…
LITTLE EDNA'S WAR: An Extraordinary Child in the Warsaw Ghetto
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September 1947. Two sections of one magazine. A boy behind wire. An actor among the Voices of…
Stefcia (Kajtek), age nine, during the Warsaw Uprising, 1944.
Before she was Kajtek, she was Stefcia. Before she was Stefcia,…
They are all smiling—leaving behind a continent of murdered families, and all that cannot be said.
Edna, Sam,…
Shakespeare in a Nazi prison camp and the ten-year-old little girl who kept the album
The final scene from…
In Episode 487 of Education in Motion on hmTv, host Zachary Graulich, Assistant Director of Education at the @hmTv-hmtc…
How Does a Holocaust Survivor Dance? There is a Hebrew word for this. Nitzachon. Laughing. Dancing. Fully alive. Victory. Not…
"Inspirational Women" podcast interview with Host Kate Daniels on Movin 92.5 FM in Seattle, WA.
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Thank you Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley for celebrating Allentown’s Edna Brill for Women’s History Month.
In ‘Who…
A Holocaust Survivor Who Wore War, Faith, and Family on a Single Chain. The necklace Edna wore every day. Tangled.…
Why Jews Still Fight for Home — and What America Owes
I have a photograph of my father-in-law standing alone…
In the center, rising in bronze, is Nathan Rapoport’s monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Mordechai Anielewicz stands at the…
Kloster Indersdorf (Bavaria) and Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta’ot (Western Galilee, Israel).
A twelfth-century monastery transformed into a survivor-run orphanage for Jewish…
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Title: Little Edna's War - See Here
Author: Janet Bond Brill, PhD
Genre: Nonfiction/Memoir
Audience: Adult
"A gripping, well-done narrative that…
Two Holocaust survivors. Their first grandchild. And a dandelion picked from the grounds of the largest killing center in human…
The Arithmetic of Survival
Ten Szureks entered the war. Four survived. The math did not end there.
Miriam,…
Jewish refugees waiting in a soup line at a shelter at 33 Nalewki Street. Source: Yad Vashem.
But watery soup…
Thank you @ancienttorecent for this amazing review!
"This should be a movie.
Little Edna’s War by Janet Bond Brill…
In the Warsaw Ghetto, where nearly 400,000 Jews were packed into 1.3 square miles, where the official ration was 184…
A Beach in Nantucket. A Gas Chamber in Treblinka.
Summer of '42
Two meanings of “Summer of ’42.”
A coming-of-age romance…
How Two Jewish Sisters Survived by Singing and Dancing for Their Lives
Aleja Szucha 25: Warsaw’s Most Feared Gestapo…
How Hitler’s rage after Operation Valkyrie shaped a nine-year-old’s war Janet Bond Brill, PhD
SS forces in Wola, Warsaw…
When he honored the Oberlangen Girls—and never knew one was Jewish
The Oberlangen Girls at St. Peter’s Basilica,…
The Lost Grandfather
What a Nazi intake form cannot record—and what memory must carry
My husband Sam never…
Edna Stefania Brill – Warsaw, 1989 Standing at the Mila 18 memorial, site of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising command bunker.…
For nearly two decades, Edna Stefania Brill was simply my mother-in-law. The warm, generous woman who raised the man I…
She was nine years old when she joined the Polish Home Army, the youngest soldier in the entire resistance force.…
“Kajtek,” age 9 – Warsaw Uprising, 1944 Child courier of the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa).
Armia Krajowa Identification Card –…
Edna's Psychological Transformation and the Cost of Survival
When eight-year-old Edna Szurek became Stefcia Skołkowska, she didn't just change…
Edna Szurek Brill's Journey by Document
“Kajtek,” age 9 – Warsaw Uprising, 1944 Child courier of the Polish Home…
August 5, 1944. Wola District, Warsaw.
Somewhere in the smoke and rubble and screaming, a nine-year-old girl ran for…
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