This paper is meant to popularize some of the less known facts of the 20th Century American history pertaining to the Holocaust. To an average American, it will show how…
The film for this week is a touching and thought provoking documentary on forgiveness, even when it seems impossible to forgive. Forgiving Dr. Mengele fallows Eva Kor, one of the twins…
The Veil of Silence concerns you more than you think. You come across it at every turn, whether in your personal life, in your family, in your church or congregation,…
Tuesday’s are typically going to show present examples of anti-Semitism taken from current news stories, and so forth, for the weeks leading up to the Houston marches. Today, however, I decided to start this series of blogs by showing a video clip that is not the definition of anti-Semitic. This video does not show hatred, discrimination or prejudice against the Jewish people in any way, shape or form. Instead this is one clip, of many such videos, that shows the ignorance of people, specifically students, concerning the topics of the World War II and the Holocaust. (more…)
For this weeks movie review I've decided to highlight The Grey Zone. This film is a rather raw cinematic depiction of the real life events surrounding the only armed revolt to…
I have decided that, as the March of Remembrance draws near, I would talk about some films I have seen that discuss the Holocaust and its after effects. I will…
Janusz Korczak, Stefania Wilczynska, and the other directors of orphanages in the ghettos will forever be my heroes. In the Warsaw Ghetto and even at the transport, Januscz would never…
The Nazi campaign was a vile machine fueled by deception, and the efficiency with which they drove men into bondage is both undeniable and surreal. It was a farce from…
Do you ever wonder, what is memory? Why do we seek to remember, to hold in reverence the things that have past and gone on when we live in a…