Holocaust, The

Provocative essays and moving stories about the Holocaust, one of the darkest eras in Jewish history.

Is G-d responsible? How can His actions (or inaction) be defended? Should they be defended?

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 ...

The woman seemed oblivious to my words. "A knife," she repeated. "I must have a knife. Now. Before it is too late"

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?

Then he asked, "Who can tell me what the lesson of the Holocaust is?"

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

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

"Take these and run to Umschlagplatz. Run! Tell the kapos that your daughter is among the captured. This is an unwritten law among us -- no snatching of policemen's children"

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