Presents the story of a seventeen-year-old Jew whose assassination of a German diplomat in Paris was used by the Nazis as a pretext for the state-sponsored anti-Semitic pogrom known as Kristallnacht. "A remarkable story of a forgotten seventeen-year-old Jew who was blamed by th…
"There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer.' Hedi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis snatched her family from their home in Eastern Europe and transported them to Auschwitz, where her parents were murdered and she and …
A biography of the rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who became a symbol of the marriage between religion and social justice "When I marched in Selma, I felt my legs were praying." So said Polish-born American rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) of his involvement in the 1965 S…