Amsterdam tram company won’t punish conductor accused of anti-Semitism

Published on August 22, 2012

Amsterdam's transport company, GVB, announced it would not punish an employee accused of making an anti-Semitic remark.

Yoya’s promise

By David Suissa
Published on May 10, 2011

“You must promise me that you will tell this story, what happened here,” the rabbi said to the bar mitzvah boy, Joachim “Yoya” Joseph. They had just finished the ceremony in a small barrack in Bergen-Belsen, where they covered the windows so the Nazi guards would not see them. The rabbi, Simon Dasberg, a community rabbi from Holland, pressed a little Torah scroll in the young boy’s hands as he spoke to him.

Films: Romantic triangle survives in the midst of hell

By Tom Tugend
Published on November 8, 2007

"I'm a very special Holocaust survivor," Jack Polak says. "I was in the camps with my wife and my girlfriend, and, believe me, it wasn't easy." This may sound like a line from the new genre of Holocaust films with humor, but Polak (who is Jacob on his birth certificate, Jack in America, Jaap to his Dutch friends and Jab to his wife) is just stating the facts in the documentary feature, "Steal a Pencil for Me."

What Bergen-Belsen Taught Us

By Menachem Z. Rosensaft
Published on April 28, 2005

On Sunday, April 17, hundreds of Holocaust survivors from around the world, along with their children and grandchildren, gathered on the site of the German concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen to observe the 60th anniversary of the camp’s liberation.

Anne Frank’s Changing Image

By Tom Tugend
Published on May 17, 2001

Fifty-six years after Anne Frank perished in Bergen-Belsen, her life and legacy loom larger than ever.

‘Gathering’

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on February 1, 2001

Playwright Arje Shaw's first memory was crawling across the floor, finding a piece of black, moldy bread and dipping the crust in water in order to chew it. He was 18 months old. "I looked like a Biafran baby," he says.