A leisurely stroll through the streets of Paris uncovers the hidden history of a trailblazing Jewish woman – Eva Kotchever, who built community for lesbian women in the US and Europe in the 1920-30s before meeting her tragic end in Auschwitz. Read More

Two Polish Holocaust survivors from Poland. United by shared tragedies and strengthened by the love for the children they raised. Here is their story. Read More

Ziemba was born in the Lodz Ghetto on September 9, 1942, one day before 13,000 children under ten were to be sent to an extermination camp. Arrangements were made for the infant to be hidden in a garbage truck and smuggled outside the Ghetto where a Christian Polish farmer retrieved him and took him home to be raised as his own. Read More

I wrote the poem in response to the Holocaust revisionism that crept into life during the pandemic when an appalling first-person essay by Canadian writer Debra Dolan compared the inconveniences of the pandemic to the way Jews must have felt when hiding for their lives in the Holocaust.  Read More

Nonno Betta, Umberto’s 93-year-old mother who lived above the shop and founded the restaurant, was herself a survivor. Read More

Even though his name is spoken often in my family of origin, none of us has ever met Ezekiel Coloneo. He died in 1753. Read More