Michael Gold grew up in the Lower East Side of New York City and wrote about his own experiences growing up there. It recreates the Jewish immigrant Lower East Side in Manhattan where he lived, and it sheds light on the lives of first- and second-generation Jewish Americans around the turn of the twentieth century. … Read more
Alicia: My Story is a book about the Holocaust, written by Alicia Appleman-Jurman. She was born in Poland in 1929 and was just a child when the Nazis came to power. Her family was forced into hiding, but they were eventually discovered and sent to concentration camps. Alicia managed to escape and spent the rest … Read more
The Holocaust refers to the systematic state-sponsored extermination of 6 million Jews by Nazi Germany in occupied Europe. The Holocaust took place in stages, starting with vile acts of verbal and physical abuse, followed by stepped up legal discrimination, including stripping Jews of their civil rights, restricting their travel options, destroying their property, culminating in … Read more
Envision a barrack, congested and overcrowded with the exhausted and emaciated. Even the dead and dying are your assailants as you fight through a massive wall of bodies for the chance to drawn in a breath. The living are as pitiful as the forgotten corpses they abandoned while marching through the snow, devoid of feeling … Read more
Many people want to have courage; maybe because courage is an asset of survival during the toughest times like the Holocaust. According to Dictionary. com, courage is, “the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc. ; bravery” (Dictionary. com). Having courage means that you are able to … Read more
