The Whispering Willows
Anna’s world is a gentle one, bathed in the colors of the setting sun. The cool wind stirs the long grass of the meadow, causing the willows to whisper so...
Tag: Holocaust
Anna & Her Sister
Anna Stein took her first breath on a makeshift bed in a crowded Warsaw Ghetto apartment in 1940. At the time, not even a year had passed since the Nazis took o...
That day in Dachau
“Fear festers,” pop told him all through childhood. “Step in, step through, but don’t be hindered by fear. Yet always respect it.”...
A Warsaw Ghetto Deportation
She was in the line, the one you didn’t want to be in, the one leading to the deportation train going to Treblinka, a death camp. We all knew that’s...
Paul Grüninger Helps Save Jewish Refugees
Paul Grüninger was a Swiss police commander who saved about 3,600 Jewish refugees during WWII by backdating their visas and falsifying other documents to indica...
Jewish people await selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau
Jewish people from Subcarpathian Rus await selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944. — “Jewish people await selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau” source...
A snapshot biography of Anne Frank
Anne Frank loved to write. She dreamt of being a journalist one day. But when she was thirteen years old, her family went into hiding to avoid deportation to a ...
Jan and Miep Gies
Not long after their wedding, Otto Frank, her employer, asked Miep to help hide his family in a secret annex of the office building. The family was in danger as...
Warsaw Ghetto, 1943.
Warsaw Ghetto, 1943. Sources: National Archives and Records Administration / Wikimedia Commons.
Chiune Sugihara saves thousands of Jewish people
“In life, do what’s right because it’s right.” Chiune Sugihara was the Japanese consul-general in Kaunas, Lithuania. In July 1940, Jews living in Kaunus were lo...