“There were always choices to make,” recalled the Austrian-born Jew Viktor Frankl after enduring three years in Auschwitz and concentration camps under the Third Reich. Read more

As flames enveloped the Warsaw Ghetto, a Polish resident of the city’s “Aryan” side, observing the incineration of his Jewish neighbors, was overheard remarking with Read more

I begin, and end, in the same place: decimation. The title of the appendix of this autobiography, Between My Father and the Old Fool, reads, Read more

In my Jewish Perspectives on the Experience of Suffering, I wrote that those who place truth over happiness often get both, while those Read more

Advocate for the Doomed: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1932-1935 Edited by Richard Breitman, Barbara McDonald Stewart and Severin Hochberg Indiana University Press, in association with… Read more