Jewish communities existed continuously in Europe for over 2,000 years. Their social and religious distinctiveness made them persistent targets for persecution. The emergence of Christianity as the…
On the night of 9 November 1938, it became open. The destruction of European Jewry had begun with Kristallnacht, Night of the Broken Glass, the nation-wide pogrom against the Jews of Germany and…
A song about Rosalie Schiff, who lost her family in Belzec Concentration camp and stayed up at night repeating her sister's name, Lucia, who was only 14.
Edith Goldberg spent her early life in Teschenmoschel, a small village near Kaiserslautern, Germany, where she was born in 1928. Her family were farmers living in a small village of about 200 people.…
The ghettos of World War II were established by the Nazis to create a total confinement for the Jewish population, turning entire neighborhoods into a prison unlike the ghettos of centuries past.