Human Interest
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Yehoshua Milansky* a successful wholesaler in Vilna, was a single parent of three young daughters when World War II began in 1939. His wife had died of an illness before the war, and he was raising the girls, Yetta, Shira and Rachel on his own. Rachel was the baby, and she held a special place […]
History
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In 1944, a wealthy Transylvanian businessman turned Salvadoran consulate’s First Secretary in Switzerland, typed up thousands of fake citizenship papers by hand, smuggled himself across enemy lines disguised as an airplane co-pilot, and forced 384 Swiss newspapers to print the truth about Auschwitz, breaking his adopted country's censorship laws in the process. His name was […]
Pauline Schantzer was born into a Jewish family. But looking in from the outside, you wouldn’t know it. Growing up in Philadelphia in the ‘90s, she went to church with her parents. She believed in Jesus. She didn’t know any Jews; all her friends were Catholic and Christian. Eventually, she did meet Jews, at a […]
The lipstick was beautiful, in a sleek black case with the elegant "HR" monogram, with that satisfying weight of a luxury object in the palm of your hand. I was standing in a drugstore in Kazimierz, Kraków's old Jewish quarter, turning it over, admiring it. Then I checked the price tag and put it gently […]
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He couldn't say his own name until he was 25. Last year, he led the High Holiday prayers.
