The Eyewitness Account of Abraham Lewin and the Warsaw Ghetto – July 1942
This July 2019 CARR Blog covers the period in the Warsaw Ghetto taken from the diary of Abraham Lewin from July 22, 1942. This is a moving account of a…
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The Kindertransport was controversial too – it teaches us that hostility can be overcome
Eighty years after the Kindertransport, politicization of the supposed threats to western ways of life represented by refugees have become commonplace. Eighty years ago, German Jewish parents sent their children…
The Sobibor Death Camp Revolt – October 14, 1943 – Part 2
Content Warning: The following blog contains depictions of violence within the eyewitness account which some readers may find distressing. Reader discretion is advised. In the second of a two-part series,…
The Sobibor Death Camp Revolt – October 14, 1943 – Part 1
My CARR Blog for October will cover one of the most courageous events of the Second World War, where Jewish prisoners, against all the odds, rose up against their captors…
Babi Yar: Mass Murder in Kiev
For my September CARR Blog, there can be no other choice but to recall the events of September 1941, when the Germans murdered over 33,000 Jewish men, women, and children…