by | | Blog, Hope for the Future
Fran Morris A dream, hope, faith, acting on that faith, fighting to keep that faith and hope alive, and accepting the consequences of defeat. This is my lesson, as I read, hear, or view the filmed account of the desperate flight from murderous persecution to freedom...
by | | Blog, The Appetite for Genocide Expands
Fran Morris 7-5-2023 When reading or hearing about the stories of people who were murdered, escaped, or hid during the Holocaust, it is hard to even imagine how the ones who lived through those years or months were able to cope. Jews have had to be resilient...
by | | Blog, The Dilemma of Liberation: Survivors & Veterans
by Fran Morris As I read the story, “The Holocaust Train That Led Jews to Freedom Instead of Death,” printed in Haaretz, I felt like I was watching a movie. The story line was such that I almost felt like I was part of the movie myself. Except the story...
by | | Blog, The Atrocities: Perpetrators, Onlookers, Victims
Dear caring friend, I am writing you today while sitting in my car. I must get something off my chest after visiting with my grandchildren today! I was tickling one-year-old Shiloh, admiring three-year-old Esther performing arabesques on her scooter, and watching...
by | | Blog, The Web of Deception: Politics and Propaganda
by Christine Ege More than 75 years after the end of World War II, and nearly 65 years after the founding of the State of Israel, antisemitism is far from extinct. In the final chapter of her book, Journey to the Holocaust, Dr. Susanna Kokkonen identifies some of the...