Promoting a culture of courage to stand up against hatred through Holocaust and genocide education and remembrance.
A student recently asked Holocaust survivor Nina Jacobs:
“Do you still find yourself feeling animosity or hate toward your oppressors?”
Her answer is one we should all hear.
Eighty-four years ago this week, Janusz Korczak and the children of his orphanage were deported from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka. Korczak refused the opportunity to escape, choosing instead to remain with the children in his care.
Some stories stay with us long after we first hear them. Janusz Korczak’s is one of them.
May their memories forever be a blessing.
07/31/2026
Today marks the anniversary of the passing of Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese diplomat whose courage helped save thousands of Jewish lives.
In the summer of 1940, as Jewish refugees desperately searched for a way out of Europe, Sugihara sought permission to issue transit visas. His requests were denied.
He chose to do it anyway.
For weeks, he handwrote visas from morning until night, continuing even as his train departed Lithuania.
Thousands of Jewish people escaped because of that decision. Today, tens of thousands of their descendants are alive because one man chose to do what was right.
May his memory continue to inspire us.
07/30/2026
At Auschwitz, in Block 27, the Book of Names stretches across the room, page after page, volume after volume. Standing in front of it, the enormity of the loss becomes impossible to ignore.
But the books also refuse to let us reduce the victims to a number. They bring us back to the individual, one name, then another, then another…
Every name was a life.
07/27/2026
Before World War II, Albania was home to a small Jewish community. As persecution spread across Europe, Jewish refugees sought safety there.
Italy occupied Albania in 1939, followed by Germany in 1943. When German authorities demanded lists of Jews living in the country, Albanian officials refused to comply. Some provided false identity documents, while families across Albania hid Jewish neighbors and refugees in their homes, often at great personal risk.
Many rescuers were guided by Besa, a centuries-old Albanian cultural code often translated as “a pledge of honor,” carrying an obligation to shelter and protect a guest or someone in need.
By the end of World War II, Albania was the only Nazi-occupied country in Europe with more Jews than it had before the war began.
07/22/2026
On July 22, 1942, the Great Deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto began.
Over the next two months, approximately 265,000 Jewish men, women, and children were deported to Treblinka, while another 35,000 were murdered inside the ghetto.
Treblinka was created primarily for mass murder. The overwhelming majority of those who arrived were sent directly to the gas chambers.
In just two months, approximately 300,000 Jews from Warsaw were murdered.
We will never forget.
Sometimes, the smallest objects carry the biggest stories.
During the Holocaust, ordinary items became symbols of courage, hope, love, and survival.
This doll became much more than a childhood toy.
A survivor’s testimony is more than a memory of the past.
It is a voice speaking directly to the future.
Today, that future is us.
07/14/2026
What could a tube of lipstick possibly change?
More than anyone expected.
After years of being reduced to numbers and stripped of their identity, it became a reminder that these survivors were more than prisoners. They were women.
07/13/2026
Throughout history, antisemitism has often contradicted itself.
Jews have been portrayed as both weak and all-powerful. As outsiders who refuse to belong and as hidden forces controlling society. As responsible for capitalism and for communism. Today, Jews may be told to “go back where they came from,” while also being told they do not belong in Israel.
What do all these contradictions have in common? None of these accusations needed facts to survive. They were repeated across generations and adapted to fit each new era, while the messages beneath them remained the same: Jews are dangerous. Jews are responsible. Jews do not belong.
When the same messages are repeated for centuries, the lies no longer have to prove themselves.