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From the Archives | The Wehrmacht’s Jewish Soldier

Janne Moehring

How did Walter Dirr, born to a Jewish mother and a Catholic father, come to be drafted into Hitler’s army? Clues from a family archive Janne Moehring The curious case of Walter Dirr begins with...

ColumnsFrom the ArchivesGermanyIssue 60 | February 2022WWII

Book Review | The Many Lives of Anne Frank

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi The Many Lives of Anne Frank Ruth FranklinJewish Lives series, Yale University Press, 2025424 pages Is Anne Frank a symbol of Jewish oppression or a universal model of courage in the...

20th centuryBook ReviewsColumnsIssue 75 | December 2025NetherlandsWomenWritersWWII

Warner Brothers’ Leading – Harry Warner

Yuval Rivlin

On the eve of World War II, Jews’ domination of Hollywood got political. How Harry Warner’s testimony before the Senate redefined Americanism Yuval Rivlin Harry Warner wasn’t a nice guy. Years of Hollywood wheeling and...

AmericaAmerican JewsArticlesIssue 75 | December 2025WWII

Seeking The Hidden Face Of God – Hillel Zeitlin

Shraga Bar-On

Though he saw the Jewish people as trapped in a fatal, dead-end existence, writer Hillel Zeitlin labored to bring redemption. Struggling with doubt, he kept hoping and praying, wrestling with contradictions to create a role...

ArticleshasidismIssue 72 | March 2025PolandWritersWWII

Book Review | Flags over the Warsaw Ghetto

Elka Weber

Seventy years after the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Moshe Arens’ book recalls the forgotten fighters who did not live to tell their story Elka Weber Flags over the Warsaw Ghetto: The Untold Story of the Warsaw...

Book ReviewsColumnsHolocaustHolocaust dayIssue 16 | April-May 2013WWII

Drawing for Dear Life

Yemima Hovav

Charlotte “Lotte” Salomon was born just over a century ago to a wealthy Berlin family. Her father, a surgeon, pioneered mammography. Her mother committed suicide when Lotte was only nine, though the cause of death...

ArtistsHolocaustHolocaust dayIssue 51 | February 2020WomenWWII

A Beautiful Mind – Hedy Lamarr

Yemima Hovav

Actress Hedy Lamarr may have owed her fame to ״standing still and looking stupid,״ but she was anything but. This assimilated Jewess combined aspects of her colorful past to patent something that could have torpedoed...

actorsArticlesHollywoodHolocaust dayIssue 32 | June 2016ViennaWomenWWII

Fight for the Spirit – Holocaust Leadership

Isaac Hershkowitz

Though physical help was largely beyond their power, Jewish religious leaders in the Holocaust sought to ease their followers’ spiritual pain, saving Judaism as well as Jews Isaac Hershkowitz The Holocaust challenged the humanity of...

ArticlesGermanyHolocaustHolocaust dayIssue 17 | June 2013PolandRabbisWWII

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From the Archives | The Wehrmacht’s Jewish Soldier