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When 5-year-old Sima Dodyk emerged from the cave where she spent almost 2 years, she cried to her mother to “turn off the candle.” So foreign was the blinding sun, she favored the dark. In the 2012 documentary No Place on Earth, we hear from Sima and 4 of her relatives who, with 33 others, evaded death and deportation by […]

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In 1948, on the eve of Israel’s independence, a group of Jewish fighter pilots climbed into reclaimed German aircraft wearing cast-off German uniforms. This isn’t a Jewish spinoff of M*A*S*H*; it’s the circumstances in which a group of World War II veterans found themselves after volunteering for the unit known as Machal—an acronym meaning “volunteers from outside Israel.” […]

After a Gestapo raid on May 27, 1942, Victor Klemperer wrote in his diary that the journal’s discovery “undoubtedly” would have meant death. “But,” the journalist and scholar vowed, “I shall go on writing. That is my heroism. I will bear witness, precise witness.” The surviving volumes—a 1st-person account spanning the entire Nazi era—are unique, invaluable pieces of Holocaust documentation. Seven […]

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