Related Blog Posts on Holocaust

I Remember: A Poem for Yom HaShoah

Stacey Zisook Robinson, z"l

I remember the absence of sound,
deeper than silence
and more lonely,
like the moment just
before Creation,
all stretched and
attenuated, waiting,
except there was no time
to measure 
eternity,
so waiting was
Now.

I wait for God to
say my name,
so that I will

O the Chimney: On Forgiving Modern-Day Germany for the Shoah

Rabbi Stephen Lewis Fuchs

Cafe Spindel is a quaint café in the center of Bad Segeberg, Germany that used to house a wool-processing factory. Because it was an unseasonably warm and sunny late summer day when I visited, our host, Pastor Martin Pommerening, suggested we sit outside.

The

To Honor, To Bless, To Name

Jane E. Herman

Recently I read about a newly published book that lists every single one of the six million people killed during the Holocaust.

In ascribing the exact same narrow, confining and one-dimensional description – Jew – to each of the six million individuals, the

Last Gay Jewish Holocaust Survivor Dies

Earlier this week the last known gay Jewish Holocaust survivor, Gad Beck, passed away. In many ways he defied being a victim -- he snuck into a deportation center to free his boyfriend, for example, and was an active member of the Resistance.

A Personal Reflection on Yom Hashoah

Aron Hirt-Manheimer

Jews throughout the world have been commemorating the Holocaust annually on the 27th of Nisan since 1953, when the Israeli government inaugurated this day of remembrance and linked to the heroic Warsaw Ghetto Uprising  of a decade earlier.