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Showing posts with label Holocaust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holocaust. Show all posts
Friday, January 12, 2024

Dark Tourism

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  Monument in the Dachau Concentration Camp Tonight after services at my synagogue, I talked to a member of the congregation about about vis...
Monday, December 4, 2023

Austria 1938--The Sudden Betrayal

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  In September I walked through this square in the center of Vienna where Hitler spoke from a balcony announcing the Anschluss   (joining) o...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Zanis Lipke Memorial, Riga, Latvia: Honoring a Man Who Hid Jews from the Nazis

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Zanis Lipke during World War II Since 2017, I have visited ten death camps and many Holocaust memorials across Europe and in Israel. Before ...
Sunday, January 22, 2023

The Death Camp Next Door: The Sites Where the Holocaust Happened

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Auschwitz Barracks   Auschwitz rail siding where prisoners were sorted  for slave labor or extermination In March I will be speaking to a gr...
Saturday, December 3, 2022

The Genius of Judaism by Bernard-Henri Levy Book 42 of 2022

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  When I began my Jewish journey after torch-carrying Nazis marched in Charlottesville. In my search after that horrible night, Bernard-Henr...
Tuesday, November 8, 2022

"Jewish Politics" by Hannah Arendt. Published in 1942. So Relevant Now.

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  Hannah Arendt In 1942 Hannah Arendt , philosopher, historian and refugee of Nazi Germany wrote the following essay.  As I read it, I felt...
Saturday, September 10, 2022

Axl Rose T-Shirt Leads (Naturally) to a Discussion of the World War II and the Holocaust

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Three fans of Axl Rose meet at a history of science conference On the first day of a history of science conference, I met the author working...
Sunday, November 21, 2021

A Holocaust Memorial in Darmstadt Attacked Twice and Still Standing

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Near the central station of Darmstadt, Germany, there is a memorial to the deportation of Jews and Gypsys (Roma) during 1942 and 1943. This ...
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

A Cathedral and a Holocaust Memorial Share the East End of an Island in Paris

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The most famous Cathedral in Paris, Notre Dame, sits the east end of the most famous island in the Seine River, il de la cite.   The grand c...
Sunday, August 29, 2021

Every Day, All Day Humiliation at Auschwitz

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  Auschwitz-Birkenau latrine On my return visit Auschwitz in July of this year, I saw things I missed or forgot I saw on my first visit in 2...
Sunday, August 1, 2021

Terezin: "Model" Concentration Camp and Death Camp for "Mosaic" Christians

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The ironic lie at the gate of many concentration camps, including Terezin Two weeks ago I visited the Terezin concentration camp west of Pr...
Thursday, July 22, 2021

Visiting Auschwitz Again It Is Even More Horrible

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  Auschwitz I The second death camp I visited on this trip was the Auschwitz concentration camp. I was here in 2017 . It was the first deat...