Ashton Rosin: Bearing witness on campus

By Danielle Berrin
Published on January 3, 2013

When author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel was recently asked if he feared future generations might forget the Holocaust once the last surviving witnesses had perished, he answered that he had quelled his anxiety over this problem with a simple dictum: “To listen to a witness,” he said, “is to become one.”

‘They killed us like termites’

By David Suissa
Published on October 18, 2007

Eva Brown tells her story of survival.

Elmau & Dachau: A Muslim’s Testimony

By Mehnaz M. Afridi
Published on October 4, 2007

I am a Muslim intellectual woman who teaches Judaism and Islam, a Muslim who seeks dialogue with Jews, a Muslim who sympathizes with Jews and understands the need for the state of Israel.

1+1+1+1 ... = 6 million

By Nicole Behnam
Published on May 31, 2007

On April 11, I embarked on a journey back in time to one of the darkest chapters in human existence with the Los Angeles delegation of the March of the Living Program, sponsored by the Bureau of Jewish Education, an agency of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles. I felt myself detaching from the comfort and security of my family and many of my friends.

Shoah seder—too young to know

By Julie G Fax
Published on April 19, 2007

The counter-intuitiveness of teaching children about the Holocaust is a harsh truth for parents of the new millennium, who believe in organic parenting, in going with the child's flow. But, of course, there isn't anything natural about the Holocaust, and so how we pass it on to the next generation can't be natural.

Pledge to survivors—we will carry the torch

By Menachem Z. Rosensaft
Published on April 12, 2007

The responsibility for transmitting the survivors' legacy of remembrance into the future must now increasingly shift to us -- their children and grandchildren.