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• Passover, the Warsaw Ghetto, Sigmund Freud, and the Psychology of Bigotry: On the Enduring Lessons of the Exodus Story

  The Forward, March 15, 2013, By Austin Ratner Even as it was happening, some appear to have understood the Holocaust as a new chapter in the old biblical story of the Exodus: The uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto began, history books tell us, on Passover eve, April 1943. The Passover holiday has certainly apprehended that [...]

• This day in Jewish history / A Polish suicide to protest Allied indifference to the Jews’ fate

  Haaretz, May 12, 2013, By David B. Green Shmuel Zygielbojm gave up his own life as a symbol of frustration at the Allies’ inaction in the face of the slaughter of the Jews. On May 12, 1943, Shmuel Zygielbojm, one of two Jewish members of the Polish government in exile in London, killed himself, in [...]

• NYTimes OpDoc: Branko: Return to Auschwitz

  The New York Times, April 14, 2013, By Topaz Adizes April 15 marks the 68th anniversary of Branko Lustig’s liberation from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp when he was not quite 13 years old. In this Op-Doc video, we follow Mr. Lustig back to Poland to visit the Auschwitz and Birkenau camps (where he was also [...]