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My new muse

lilyionamackenzie wrote 2 weeks ago: Bruno Schulz, the Polish writer, has become my new muse.  I’ve been reading his first book, Th … more →

Tags: Links, Bruno Schulz, Holocaust, Muse, poetric prose, The Street of Crocodiles

Is It A Shoe Decision

Michael Turpin wrote 7 months ago: Lessons Learned – Is It A Shoe Decision ?   I often find myself listening to my children as they lam … more →

Tags: Human Interest, Holocaust, My Favorites, survival, Life Perspective, Strength, adversity, Human will, religious strength

Of Life and Loss: The Polish Photographs of Roman Vishniac and Jeffrey Gusky

photocurator wrote 7 months ago: Nat Gutman's Wife, Warsaw, 1938, by Roman Vishniac, © Mara Vishniac Kohn courtesy the Internatio … more →

Tags: Exhibitions, Photographers, Detroit, Roman Vishniac, Jeffrey Gusky, Photography Exhibitions, Of Life and Loss, Polish photographs, Jewish Communities

Ex-official: Israel can hardly wait to attack Iran2 comments

pakalert wrote 9 months ago: Press TV Reports A senior Israeli diplomat says Tel Aviv has not shelved plans for Iran war. Tel Avi … more →

Tags: Press TV, Israel, Jews, United Nations, Iran, Palestinian, Tel Aviv, Jew, Gaza Strip

Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: German Police, Laughing at---and Tormenting---a Jew in Rzeszow, Poland1 comment

santitafarella wrote 9 months ago: … more →

Tags: Antisemitism, christ mocked, Cruelty, German Police, Jesus, Judaism, Life, Poland, Religion

Maus: A Survivor's Tale, Vol. I & II5 comments

Riot wrote 10 months ago: Review Very rarely does a book jar me to the marrow to the point I lose sleep, have difficulty eatin … more →

Tags: Reviews, Nonfiction Reviews, Comic Books/Graphic Novels/Graphic Memoirs, Anthropomorphism, Art Spiegelman, Auschwitz, Biography, Birkenau, Concentration Camps

Is this a question?

Deena wrote 11 months ago: Someone just told me that all my blog titles should be questions from now on. Pretty funny. This is … more →

Tags: eastern european jews, talking in questions, Questions

Book Review - The Pages In Between by Erin Einhorn

Cindy Hudson wrote 11 months ago: In The Pages In Between, Erin Einhorn has written a memoir about what she finds when she searches fo … more →

Tags: book talk, Holocaust, memoir, Erin einhorn

Almost completely unknown Irene Gut

the sunrises wrote 1 year ago: If it were not for an accident, probably for a long time I would not know anything about Irene Gut. … more →

Tags: Dan Gordon, heroic act, History, Irena Gut, Irena's vow, Irene Gut, Jewish Culture, Jewish history, Jewish history and culture in Poland

Farewell to the relics of old cosmpolitan town?

the sunrises wrote 1 year ago: Old Bialystok, bearing witness to its rich multicultural past, is more and more yielding room to rap … more →

Tags: Belarussians, Bialystok, bike trips across Podlasie, Bike trips across Poland, Jews, Jews in Bialystok, Life, Podlasie, Poland

One of the most reliable Israel's allies

the sunrises wrote 1 year ago: It is still difficult to understand anti – Israeli and anti – American stance of many Eu … more →

Tags: Belarussians, Bialystok, Catholic Church, democracy, Faith, "interpersonal relations", Jews, Jews in Bialystok, Podlasie

Irena Sendler - The Righteous Among the Nations2 comments

the sunrises wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday Irena Sendler died in Warsaw. She was a real hero, exceptional person, who appears rarely … more →

Tags: Jews, Poland, poles, The Righteous Among the Nations, the Second World War, Bravery, Culture, Events, heroism

Jew Wishes On: Irena Sendler Dead at Age 98

jewwishes wrote 1 year ago: Irena Sendler died on Monday May 12, 2008, in Warsaw, Poland, at the age of 98. During World War II, … more →

Tags: General, Judaism, News, Holocaust, Anit-Semitism, Religion, Jew, Jewish, Jew Wishes

Multicultural town - part 1

the sunrises wrote 1 year ago: Situated on the borderland of a few cultures and religions Bialystok still bears the traces of its p … more →

Tags: Belarussians, Bialystok, Catholic Church, Christianity, Greek catholics, Jews, Jews in Bialystok, Podlasie, Poland

Industrial Bialystok - part 2

the sunrises wrote 1 year ago: Afraid of possible old textile factories’ disappearance from town landscape I resolved to save … more →

Tags: Bialystok, Jews, Jews in Bialystok, Podlasie, Poland, Travel, 19th Century, bike trip, old textile factories

Industrial Bialystok

the sunrises wrote 1 year ago: At the first half of the 19th century Bialystok’s economy started growing fast. German and Jew … more →

Tags: poles, Travel, Podlasie, Poland, Jews, Jews in Bialystok, Bialystok, Photography, History

Remnants of Bialystok ghetto - part 2

the sunrises wrote 1 year ago: Together with my friends I resolved to immortalize places, buildings, gardens, streets which were wi … more →

Tags: Belarussians, poles, Travel, Podlasie, Poland, Jews, Jews in Bialystok, Bialystok, Tatars

Remnants of Bialystok ghetto - part 1

the sunrises wrote 1 year ago: I have always been amazed by the contrasts included in beautiful places. How is it possible that pla … more →

Tags: Reflections, Thoughts, Bialystok, Jews, Culture, Photography, Travel, Jews in Bialystok, Czysta street

Ulm - Polish family, the Righteous Among the Nations

the sunrises wrote 1 year ago: Markowa – big villaege near Lancut, presently southern Poland. Befere the Second World War hap … more →

Tags: The Righteous Among the Nations, the Second World War, Holocaust, Jews, Markowa, Poland, Ulm family, yad vashem


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