Category: Holocaust Remembrance

How to Remember the Shoah

Almost unimaginably, the writer Aharon Appelfeld, who survived the Shoah as a child, put love at the center of his memory of that time: For

Selichot in Krakow: Migrations of a Melody

The only one of my mother’s melodies to remain is the sing-song of the shamash from the Rem’uh [Rabbi Moses Isserles] Synagogue in Krakow, as he

Hitkansut for Yom HaShoah

As the generation of Holocaust survivors passes, we must find new, meaningful ways to commemorate the Shoah. Similar to the Passover seder, Hitkansut is guided

But There Was Love: Shaping the Memory of the Shoah (in Hebrew)

What is the role of the memory of the Shoah in the face of a changing present? How can we shape it as a social

Facing Evil – Thoughts on a Visit to Auschwitz

Discussions are currently underway about restoring the Auschwitz Museum, which was established on the grounds of the concentration camp two years after World War II.

The Journey to Poland

In late October 1975, when I was in my early twenties and completing my doctorate in Paris, I went to Poland. An almost impossible journey