By Delia Weatherly Today on my drive through Houston I was saddened to hear that Olivia Newton-John had died from breast cancer. The woman had been an inspiration to many of a road trip sing-along and has now crossed over to heaven. She will be missed by many. However...
by Christine Ege In the wake of World War II and the liberation of the remaining concentration camp prisoners, the evidence of unspeakable atrocities committed by the Nazis could no longer be hidden. The world was collectively shocked and horrified at the plight...
Fran Morris 7-6-2022 Young people take on new ideas and new causes in a heartbeat. Later, sometimes a lifetime later, as they became wiser, they may realize that those ideas or causes were not what they believed them to be at the time. Josef Schutz was 21 years old...
by Christine Ege Studying the Holocaust is far from a simple task. It is unlike any other brief period of history, as its roots are firmly anchored in the centuries and decades leading up to World War II, and its tentacles have continued to affect the world to...
by Christine Ege As schoolchildren, we all learned about the Industrial Revolution and the benefits resulting from new technology, mechanization of production processes, and maximization of profit. Productivity and efficiency grew at a historically...
by Christine Ege In the book 999, author Heather Dune Macadam recounts the details of the first official deportation of Jews to Auschwitz. The remarkable aspect of this transport was that it consisted only of young women, most of whom were mere teenagers. ...
