A Matter of Trust

For the past few days, I have been relating what the entire world is going through now to what that the world faced in the 1930s and 1940s.

There certainly are obvious connections. Most notably, there’s the concept of survival. And while I don’t have the expertise to help anyone cope me…

Seasons Greeting – from Auschwitz?

I spend a whole lot of time blogging, posting, and speaking about when things are either anti-Semitic or insulting to the memory of the Holocaust, or just outright wrong and a perpetuation of hatred. So today, in an effort to look at the positive, I want to shed light on something that I thi…

75 Years later and still we have an issue….

In July 2018 I spent my first Shabbat in Berlin. Although I had been to Germany several times before, I had not been fortunate enough to be in a synagogue for a Shabbat service. The experience was overpowering, and I left services that evening feeling incredibly proud to be Jewish, to be a H…

Heritage

I’ve spoken and written often about the so-called birthright of a child, grandchild, or even great-grandchild of a Holocaust survivor. In many cases, it’s ingrained upon these subsequent generations to continue to pave a path of remembrance, recollection, and education.

It’s a birthri…

A Miraculous Discovery Leads to Greater MetroWest

It all began with 13 driver’s licenses, 13 people, 13 lives, and a vision to tell a story or, in this case, to tell 13 stories.

In February 2017, an envelope with 13 driver’s licenses that were confiscated from Jewish citizens of Germany in 1938, were found in a government office in the…