Tag: history

Young Observers: Early May 2025

From Medieval Japan to Modern Influencers by Tegan, 8th grade The test I take tomorrow in History is the topic I have studied for many weeks. Centuries ago, in medieval Japan, the […]

Out of My Mind: The New Old Anti-Semitism

I first encountered anti-Semitism in 1950 while watching our tiny new TV. I saw bodies piled up and bulldozers pushing them into open graves. I saw barely living skeleton people in striped […]

Eating the Piano: ‘St. Gallen’

A Family’s True Story of Surviving the Nazis and World War II This true story is based on letters my grandmother Ilse Lang received from family and friends in Europe prior to […]

Eating the Piano: ‘Four Friends’

A Family’s True Story of Surviving the Nazis and World War II My grandmother Ilse was one of the few surviving Jews wealthy and prescient enough to escape Nazi Germany in the […]

Gertie and Ernst

My father grew up in Germany in the Nazi time; our family is Jewish. My grandparents brought their family to the United States in 1935. However, many family members were left behind […]