by I. I. Cohen | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
On Wednesday, April 25, 1945, the SS guards in Kaufering’s watchtowers suddenly disappeared. The block supervisors in our camp – a satellite of Dachau – stopped beating and cursing; they knew that the explosives that had grown louder each day...
by Sarah Cohen | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
My mother was four years old when the storm troopers marched into Hungary and shattered her childhood. The details are familiar in the collective Jewish memory, and form the dark underside to my personal brightly lit, Generation-X American existence. The roundups. The...
by Mary McGrory | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
Reprinted with permission from Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Company and The Washington Post In this anxious hour of pink-slip dread, it is restoring to think of Aaron Feuerstein, a Massachusetts manufacturer who prizes his employees and risks profits on their...
by Rabbi Avi Shafran | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
Late the evening of August 16, the Jewish world became immeasurably poorer. Though most Jews may never have heard of Rabbi Avraham Pam, who returned his soul to his Creator that night, he was beloved and revered for decades throughout the Orthodox community as one of...
by Zipporah Perlman | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
“Get out of here or I’ll smash your teeth down your throat!” Who uttered this terrible threat? A dangerous desperado being apprehended by a cop? A lunatic about to be dragged back to the asylum? No. My mother-in-law. She had walked into her apartment...
