Holocaust

"My Negro Problem—and Ours" at 50 Norman Podhoretz, Commentary. "Ellison was right to excoriate me for my dismissive attitude toward black culture, and my Jewish critics were right to take offense at my questioning whether the survival of the Jewish people was worth the suffering it entailed."

Diary of the Hitler Diary Hoax Sally McGrane, New Yorker. Thirty years ago, Stern magazine announced the discovery of Hitler’s lost diaries, which claimed that he did not know what was happening to the Jews.  Within two weeks, the diaries were exposed as fakes.

Warsaw: 70 Years On David Samuels, Tablet. "I was never so afraid as when I helped Jews," recalls Polish rescuer and statesman Władysław Bartoszewski.  "Despite the fear, one has to do what has to be done.  The right thing."

Living in Anne Frank's Shadow Neil Tweedie, Telegraph. "Otto would talk continuously about Anne, and I got to know her," recalls Eva Schloss, Anne Frank's stepsister.  "It was his obsession, the reason for existence."

Still Blaming the Jews Richard Wolin, Chronicle of Higher Education. German Egyptologist Jan Assmann claims that Judaism disrupted the ancient Middle East by inventing "religious exclusivity"—and calls his theory "a historical analysis of anti-Semitism."

Helga's Diary Adam Kirsch, New Republic. A child in Prague in the 1930s, Helga Weiss kept a diary of life under Nazi rule and her subsequent experiences in Terezin and Auschwitz.  Now, 70 years later, she has published it.

The Path of Most Resistance Benjamin Ginsburg, GovStud. It is commonly assumed that European Jews made little effort to resist the Nazis.  But, if we "look for resistance where it was possible to resist," then "we come to a very different conclusion."

Israel's High Holidays Donniel Hartman, eJewish Philanthropy. Once scorned as a representation of the Old Jew's weakness, Yom Hashoah is now as much a Zionist commemoration as Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha'atzma'ut.  But is that right?

Smiling on Yom Hashoah Chaim Steinmetz, Times of Israel. On Holocaust survivors at a Montreal memorial service: “Here they are, 68 years later, with their grandchildren. They have rebuilt their families and made profound contributions to our community.”

The Schindlers of the Philippines Dan Pines, jweekly.com. The Frieder brothers, Cincinnati Jews, made cigars in Manila and played poker with Dwight D. Eisenhower—and that was how 1,200 Austrian Jews were rescued from Hitler’s Europe.