Category Archives: Holocaust

Right on: the only museum dedicated entirely to human rights

Posted on 28 July 2015 by Steve Caplan

Technology and hands-on exhibits make the Canadian Museum for Human Rights accessible for visitors of all ages When I last visited family in the city of Winnipeg, Canada, I had the opportunity to do a tour of the outside of … Continue reading →

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Who the hell will tell me who my father really was?!

Posted on 7 July 2015 by Steve Caplan

This angry question, uttered repeatedly by the protagonist of Bualem Sansal‘s courageous and thought-provoking novel, translated into English as “The German Mujahid,” has been permanently etched in my brain. The story follows the day-to-day chaos in the life of Malrich, … Continue reading →

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Yom HaShoah – A Guest Post by Crox Minor

Posted on 28 April 2014 by Henry Gee

As today is Yom HaShoah, I would like to ask everyone to think for a moment about prejudice, from the genocides that are still going on to casual remarks about immigrants and ethnic and religious minorities made daily by the … Continue reading →

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Jews On Bikes

Posted on 25 April 2014 by Henry Gee

Sometimes the most memorable televisual emissions come from random channel-surfing. So it was last night when Mrs Crox came across a documentary on Sky Atlantic called Jews On Bikes. This follows the fortunes of a group of British Jewish bikers … Continue reading →

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Critical Mass–a massive mystery and modicum of Lab Lit

Posted on 23 January 2014 by Steve Caplan

Now that I have published “A Degree of Betrayal” and am officially a writer of a mystery novel–even if it is not purely a genre novel–I am actively devouring all types of mystery novels. So please, I welcome suggestions! I … Continue reading →

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Educating children: balancing the need for instilling security with knowledge of evil

Posted on 18 August 2012 by Steve Caplan

As I’ve probably noted too many times in these pages, I am an addicted bookworm, and always have been. The pages of my books have always been escape (albeit often to realities more difficult than my own), and in modern … Continue reading →

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Holocaust

Posted on 27 April 2012 by Henry Gee

Israel has just celebrated its Independence Day, hot on the heels of Holocaust Memorial Day. This resonates with me, as my grandparents and two aunts (infants at the time) perished in Auschwitz. The resonance increases with the idea that such … Continue reading →

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“Anne Frank and Me”, Science and Humanity

Posted on 23 April 2011 by Steve Caplan

I cried. Not just a lone tear running down my cheek, but a wet stream that went on and on, long after the actors took their final bows, and my daughter came down from the stage. The scene was the … Continue reading →

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