Today is Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), when in Israel sirens sound at 10 a.m. For two minutes, the entire country stands still to observe the memory of the [...]
Meet the town of Tykocin in northeast Poland, a shtetl if there ever was one. Tykocin is pretty much as it was in August 1941, when German Einsatzgruppen obliterated [...]
This low stone wall marks the circumference of the barn in Jedwabne, where more than 300 Jews were burned to death [...]
Our November tour of the sites of Jewish history and the Holocaust in Poland and Lithuania began with a visit to the Warsaw Jewish Cemetery. With more than 250,000 [...]
The Warsaw Jewish Cemetery is a forest of its own. (Photo by Rivka Schiller) […]