of Margot’s death, she was either 18 or 19 years old at the time. Her birthday was the same month that she died. Anne was…

There are questions that children ask that adults are not equipped to answer. Not because we lack intelligence or education or life experience. Not because…
The lines around his eyes, which had appeared over the course of the illness, and which made him look in some moments startlingly old, had…

On June 12, 1942, a young girl received a diary for her 13th birthday. The gift was given during one of the most turbulent and…
So the Russians took us away from Auschwitz, and the only way we could travel was eastward, always in cattle trucks, till we ended up…

There is a kind of silence that doesn’t feel empty. I have lived inside ordinary silence. The silence of an empty house, the silence of…
I have been asked over the years whether I knew whether there was some maternal intuition operating beneath my conscious awareness that registered during that…

My name is Bayata Anus Burksa. I am 53 years old. I am Polish and for three years from 1993 to 1996, I was the…
Leukemia, fulminant. He was 15 years old. He had offered his suffering for the Pope and for the church. He died as he had lived,…

In September 2024, a forestry surveyor using ground penetrating radar in the Har Mountains detected an anomaly 12 ft below the surface. The readings showed…

