The Holocaust Operation
Holocaust Remembrance Day is 18-April. 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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Waiting for Justice
My girlfriend told that one of the hardest things about being raised by Holocaust survivors was that nothing she ever went through evoked much sympathy…
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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...
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…
I Caused the Holocaust
Did the Holocaust speed up the Redemption? When we bask in His Divine Light, will we be grateful that G-d did what was necessary to bring this great day a little sooner?
Heroism: Choose Life
For us to become heroes it doesn’t necessarily require being in a front line commando unit. It has more to deal with our day to day moment to moment decision making…
Warning from Above
Rav Shalom Arush says that everything comes from Hashem and it's all for the best. Does that statement include the Nuremburg Laws and the Holocaust?
Faith in the Face of Pain
Our first reaction to tragedy, loss, or failure is usually an emotional response and not a response born of faith. Our emotions tell us: “This is horrible..."
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...
Dance the Troubles Away
Does Hashem want fasting and sackcloth? The Klausenberger Rebbe, who lost a wife and 11 children in the Holocaust, gives us proper perspective...
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...