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The Holocaust
Essays and stories Provocative essays and moving stories about the Holocaust, one of the darkest eras in Jewish history.
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Belief After the Holocaust
By Nissan Dovid Dubov Sixty years on, people still ask the same questions – Where was G–d during the Holocaust? How can you believe in G–d after the Holocaust? If G–d is just and righteous how could He allow the Holocaust to happen? Why didn’t G–d perform miracles during the ...
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What the Rebbe Said (and Didn't Say) About the Holocaust
By Yanki Tauber Is G-d responsible? How can His actions (or inaction) be defended? Should they be defended?
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The Holocaust
Can we possibly give a reason or explanation for an event of such magnitude? Did the it destroy the possibility of belief in a good G-d? What the Rebbe said--and didn't say--about the Holocaust
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"Only Mine..."
By Yerachmiel Tilles "Take these and run to Haumshalagplatz. Run! Tell the kapos that your daughter is among the captured. This is an unwritten law among us -- no snatching of policemen's children"
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Two Candles for Sammy
By Simon Wiesenthal I first heard of Sammy Rosenbaum in 1965, when a Mrs. Rawicz from Rabka came into my office in Vienna to testify at a War Crimes trial
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A Rebbe's Confession
By Tuvia Bolton The year was 1945, just after the war. The place: a refugee camp somewhere in Germany. Jews just out of concentration camps had gathered in a barracks-turned-Synagogue for the Yom Kippur prayers
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The Blanket
Howard Schultz Then he asked, "Who can tell me what the lesson of the Holocaust is?"
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A Mother Who Stayed Home
by Beth Poznansaky Baum In the parallel universe in my mind, I was there with them, looking at pictures on the wall. I anxiously awaited the end of the day, for my son's class to return home. Would he be a changed boy?
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The Covenant
An account by Rabbi Israel Spira, the Rebbe of Bluzhov The woman seemed oblivious to my words. "A knife," she repeated. "I must have a knife. Now. Before it is too late"
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