Holocaust, The

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

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 H...

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

Rabbi Nissen Mangel was a 10-year-old child when he came to the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. There he witnessed unspeakable atrocities, but he also witnessed amazing acts of faith. In this moving and powerful talk, Rabbi Mangel tells his firsthand accoun...

Can the world survive on ethics devised by human reason? Well, we tried. It’s called the 20th century.

Why can we say that biblical tragedies were punishments, yet contemporary ones are “the mysterious way of G-d”? Have today’s rabbis changed their perception of G-d to fit what’s politically correct?

A harrowing first-hand tale of life and death in the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto.

There’s a glaring void in Holocaust education and scholarship of the values, perspectives and responses of faith-driven Jewish communities. Rabbi Sholom Friedmann shares insight on the incredible phenomenon of believing Jews finding meaning in a meaningle...

At the tender age of ten, Rabbi Nissen Mangel miraculously evaded the notorious ‘selection’ and the gas chambers to become Auschwitz’s youngest inmate. Marking his bar-mitzvah by wearing tefillin, he miraculously survived the infamous Death March and went...

Solly Irving was just a boy when the Nazis invaded Poland. He was incarcerated in several concentration camps, including Buchenwald, and was liberated from Theresienstadt. This is his story.