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…
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…
The Lost Grandfather
What a Nazi intake form cannot record—and what memory must carry
My husband Sam never knew his grandfather.
There are no stories of being bounced on Avraham’s knee.
No memories of his voice, his laugh, the way he smelled of tobacco or sawdust or whatever fathers smelled of in 1930s…
Edna Stefania Brill – Warsaw, 1989 Standing at the Mila 18 memorial, site of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising command bunker. The mound was built from the stones of her childhood home. It was here, in this building, that would one day house the command bunker of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, that she came into the…
