Am I Harping on the Holocaust? (Published by The Times of Israel)

I have been asked this question repeatedly.  Those who haven’t asked want to know, but don’t want to ask, and that’s fair.  It’s a bleak and daunting chapter, which many including Jews, wish to simply put behind us. It’s not Continue reading Am I Harping on the Holocaust? (Published by The Times of Israel)

Night Will Fall – Never Again (Published by The Times of Israel)

Early Shabbat morning, I watched Night Will Fall, an HBO documentary, which was released in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day.  It depicted excruciating footage of several camps, including Buchenwald, my grandfather’s prison and personal hell-on-earth from January 1945 until liberation. My Continue reading Night Will Fall – Never Again (Published by The Times of Israel)

I Am the Granddaughter of Survivors (Featured in The Jewish Chronicle)

Every year on Yom HaShoah I am haunted by my family’s history, reading countless testimonials about the Holocaust, yet I am silent about my own. I always believed that it was not my story to tell.  But it is my Continue reading I Am the Granddaughter of Survivors (Featured in The Jewish Chronicle)