Image by EagleXDV via Flickr Tonight and tomorrow, we observe Holocaust Remembrance Day. When Jacob Richman sent me his list of Holocaust educational sites I was stimulated to learn more about Treblinka, the extermination camp where my father's mother, father, sister and brother were … [Read more...]
Ukrainians and the Holocaust
April 5, 2009 by
A reader of Ukrainian ancestry left a comment on my review of The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn. He is seeking answers about the behavior of Ukrainians toward Jews during the Holocaust. I have just read the book “The Lost” and look at it from a different perspective than some. I am Canadian born of … [Read more...]
Holocaust Remembrance Day: One Family’s Story
May 1, 2008 by
In honor of Holocaust Memorial Day, I'll share with you a section from a book about daily life in my father's shtetl. The book is called Memories of Ozarov, by Hillel Adler. Second-generation survivors owe a great debt to authors such as Adler, who died in 1996. In addition to this (possibly … [Read more...]
The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn
December 24, 2007 by
I've been reading Daniel Mendelsohn's book, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million. Mendelsohn grew up in an assimilated family in New York. In the background of his visits to his older relatives in Florida lay a story about a great-uncle who remained in the family's ancestral town of … [Read more...]
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