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46 shares Uri Shulevitz, author of 'Chance: Escape From the Holocaust,' and cover art. (Photo of Shulevitz courtesy of Paula Brown/ book cover courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Serendipity played no small part in helping Uri Shulevitz survive the Holocaust as a child. Nearly 76 years later, Shulevitz — now an acclaimed author and illustrator of children’s books — is contemplating the role that fate played in preserving his life in his new memoir for kids, “Chance: Escape From the Holocaust.” In a phone interview with The Times of Israel, Shulevitz said that the title — whi...

Holocaust Survivors Use #ItStartedWithWords Campaign to Fight Anti-Semitism There has been a rise in online anti-Semitism during the pandemic along with studies indicating that younger generations lack even basic knowledge of the Nazi genocide By David Rising • Ronald Zak/AP Alarmed by a rise in online anti-Semitism during the pandemic, coupled with studies indicating younger generations lack even basic knowledge of the Nazi genocide, Holocaust survivors are taking to social media to share their experiences of how hate speech paved the way for mass murder. With short vide...

Time to really talk about the Holocaust Time to really talk about the Holocaust The silence of the Holocaust is the silence of death and we cannot bear to hear it. So we covered over it with a new people, a new state, a new culture, a new language and with tales of heroism. (April 8, 2021 / JNS) I dream of a time when Holocaust Remembrance Day will see us think and talk about the Holocaust. Because for decades, we have been talking about the heroism associated with it, which is something I can no longer take. There is no greater injustice that can be inflicted on the Holocaust than impressing...

ANTHONY ESOLEN The sergeant stood before the young soldier in the cold rain. Join the worldwide Magnificat family by subscribing now: Your prayer life will never be the same! Father Jerzy Popiełuszko Some men shuffled about them.  Most were smirking.  A few hung their heads. "Beads are for girls," said the sergeant, "or worse.  That's what you are, isn't it?" The soldier shut his eyes and did not reply. "Look here," said the sergeant, with mocking friendliness.  He flung the soldier's rosary to the ground.  "Wood is wood.  Nothing else.  Tread on those beads.  Show...

To read it in full, click here to subscribe and login.  Following 63 days of brutal street fighting, Polish rebels finally surrendered to Nazi forces on 2 October 1944. Two months earlier, wary of an advancing Red Army, the rebels had begun an insurrection against Hitler’s occupiers in what was later to become known as the Warsaw Uprising. Desperate to avoid a pro-communist regime, the Poles had hoped to gain control of the city before the Soviet arrival – but they were outnumbered and outgunned. Their defeat prompted brutal Nazi recriminations, with much of Warsaw’s population deport...