Hamutal Gouri, daughter of Haim Gouri, writes of how her father taught her the near-magical power of stories – tales that can be pulled out of a box to help us make sense of the world.
An anonymous Jew describes the last months of World War II in Amsterdam. This city, once a large and vibrant Jewish center, turns into a ghost town before his eyes, while he and a handful of Jews try against all odds to survive.
“Better to fall as free fighters than to live by the mercy of the murderers. Arise! Arise with your last breath!”
Meet Doctor Henryk Goldszmit who refused to leave the Jewish orphans to face the Nazis alone.
The life of Avraham Sutzkever, the foremost Yiddish poet in Israel, spanned almost the entire tumultuous revolution-and-war-filled 20th century.
Rare recordings kept in the National Library’s collection reveal the Chanukah songs that gave hope to Jewish children during WWII.
Abraham Adolf Fraenkel, a doctor of mathematics, served in the German army during the Great War and organized a Passover Seder for his fellow Jewish soldiers.
A battered copy of “In the Heart of the Seas,” rescued from anti-Semitic riots in Germany, was returned to its author, S.Y. Agnon, with a letter telling the incredible story of its survival
