Reflections on Sept. 1 of 1939 and 2016
On August 31 I returned from a trip to Frankfurt, Munich, and Berlin — the first time I had been…
Remembering the Non-Jewish Victims Murdered by the Nazis
As I have written about before, I am currently involved in writing a screenplay THE RED LETTER about the Israeli…
The Czar’s Uncle: A True 19th Century Story
This firsthand account of an event that happened in the last decade of the 19th Century* originally appeared in the…
November 9th: Remembering Kristallnacht
Today’s Wall Street Journal — November 9, 2015 — carried the front-page article “U.S. Eyes Europe Troop Plan” (in order…
Reflections on the 70th Anniversary of the End of WWII
The war in Europe ended in May of 1945 and the war in the Pacific ended later that summer in…