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It's so difficult to see suffering! How can we look "through it" to see the greater good that will be born from it?
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Holocaust Remembrance Day: A Cruise and a Camp
HOLOCAUST DAY is 21-Apr. If the guard was especially cruel, he won a visit to the camp brothel, made up of women inmates who were given more food...
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The Tiger from Kovno
There are hero stories and there are "Kiddush Hashem" stories, but the unprecedented true story of Major General Sidney Shachnow, ob"m, combines both and tops them all…
Anya
“You are a murderer of children, and I am not afraid of you," said the little girl. That girl was Anna Burda - my very special sister…
In Polish Forest Fields
The Polish people were just as guilty as the Nazis for killing innocent Jews. The following story will show you a side of the Polish people very few of you know about…
Say Seventeen!
After four days without food and water, the alcohol hit him fast and hard. He felt warm and strong; he stood up straight and looked the murderer Mengele right in the face…
Through Auschwitz, Never Angry
Few are familiar with the unsung heroes of the Holocaust, such as Rabbi Yisroel David Noviner of saintly and blessed memory, who never lost his temper even once in Auschwitz…
The Klausenberger Rebbe’s Emuna
His emuna was so powerful, he only saw Hashem, He feared no one, not even the SS officers who threatened to kill him so many times. He was 100% a servant of Hashem...
Light in the Darkness
Rabbi Shkop's image remained with him in the death camp. He would remember the warmth that he felt, and it gave him the strength to continue.
Post-Judenrein Europe
Even without any Jews left to hate, a remnant of a Polish town's deadly anti-Semitism recently resurfaced like a foul stain refusing to fade away…
Back to Birkenau
Josh had never been to Europe before, but as soon as he step foot in Birkenau, he knew his way around completely; not only that, he pointed at what each building was...
Frida’s Story
How did Frida survive? Rav Shalom Arush said that there was actually a greater revelation of Hashem's Light in the Holocaust than there was during the time of the Holy Temple...
Betrayal
Solomon was sent to Berlin. There he was interred for four days while it was decided whether to execute him or ship him off to a concentration camp.
Blankenase
The Nazis raid the farm in search of the Jewish children, but the latter have already escaped trying to reach the Promised Land…
In the Austrian Army
Moshe Paul’s enlistment procedure was uneventful, except for several smirks and side comments about Jews… but he was in very good physical condition…
The Death of Uncle Layish
The partisans were ambushed with artillery and heavy machine gun fire in the Yugoslav forest fields near the border; the mortally-wounded courier barely made it home…
Out of the Ashes
In the aftermath of horrible destruction, HaShem is setting the foundation for the future, just like a seed that rots before it germinates and grows into a mighty tree…
The Meeting
Rabbi Freier gives Solomon the dangerous task of arranging the escape of Jewish children from Nazi Germany and bringing them to Palestine…