Stephen D.Smith is Co-Founder of StoryFile and a director of Memory Workers.
What we are seeing unfolding in Ukraine should be of no surprise. It is an old school extension of the twentieth century. Putin is reprising Stalin’s playbook in Ukraine: occupy it, use its resources, repress its people, make them feel just Russian enough that they don’t fight back.
Marek Edelman suggested that the most appropriate way to memorialize the past is through how we live our lives in the world today.
To survivors of the Shoah and genocides the world over.
We celebrate them not for surviving; we celebrate them for their humility, their resilience, and their generosity.
Encountering “Mother Fletcher” and “Mother Randle”—107-year-old Viola Fletcher and 106-year-old Lessie Beddingfiled Randle—this weekend in Tulsa, Oklahoma, gave an entirely new meaning to the word “survivor.”
There is no ethnic cleansing going on in Gaza. There is no ethnic cleansing going on in the West Bank.
In a world in which we see so much division and hatred, it was a heartwarming moment of reassurance that when one child is missing, everyone’s child is missing.
Saturday’s announcement by President Biden is both a welcome change from past administrations—and a sign of how obstinate the United States has been on this issue until now.
Sidney Bernstein is the reason we know what the Nazi concentration camps looked like.
What happened to the Jews can and does happen to others. The Jews are not alone.
