Three months after our arrival in Jordan, we received news that changed our lives forever. Amira was pregnant with our first child, a baby who…
and I was living in a darkness so deep I couldn’t see any way out. What did I have to lose? Indeed, for several days,…

My name is Muhammad. I’m 34 years old. And on March 22nd, 2019, my entire world collapsed. I was a devoted Muslim living in Riyad…
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…

The 10th of May, 1940, World War 2, the Netherlands. Nazi Germany invades Holland and the German Air Forces – the Luftwaffe – use paratroopers…
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…

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…
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…

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…
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…

