Shakespeare in a Nazi prison camp and the ten-year-old little girl who kept the album
The final scene from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, staged by French POWs at Stalag X-B in northern Germany, 1944. From the album Souvenir de ma Captivité compiled by Sylvain Masson.
In the winter of 1944, two Jews were hiding in plain…
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.…
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…
After surviving the Warsaw ghetto, fighting as a decorated soldier in the Polish resistance, and enduring years of war, Edna Stefania Brill found herself in Israel in 1951. What she hadn’t expected was to find love.
