

Choosing Joy
My parents were Holocaust survivors from Poland who met in 1945 in DP Camp Foehrenwald in the American zone of Germany. They immigrated...
Phyllis Lee


Robert Jay Lifton May 16, 1926 – September 4, 2025
There are certain titans among us, and when they pass away, we are left facing an immeasurable void. Dr. Robert Jay Lifton - a...
Phyllis Lee


Living History
September 1, 1939 fell on my father's 15th birthday. The sound of what he thought was thunder woke him early that morning in his Polish...
Phyllis Lee


A Letter to Foehrenwalders from the Badehaus Museum
Dear Föhrenwalders worldwide, We have been in regular contact with some of you since October 7, especially those we wanted to visit in...
Dr. Sybille Krafft and Jonathan Coenen


A Prayer for Yom HaShoah.
Composed by the Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks Originally published April 4, 2013 Today, on Yom HaShoah, we remember the victims of the greatest...
Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks


Between Loss and Revival
Transcript of Presentation delivered to the 4th Conference of Fohrenwald Descendants, March 16, 2023.
Dr. Sarah Ozachy Lazar


The Year We Hung Hitler
Yehuda Fogel is a writer and editor at 18Forty, a Jewish media company, and was formerly an editor at the Lehrhaus.
Yehuda Fogel


My Journey from and back to Foehrenwald.
Shoshana Bellen chronicles her family’s history and what it means to be a DP child.
Shoshana Bellen


"The past is not dead…it’s not even past." On Kristallnacht, in memory of Boris Kagan (Z"L)
On Kristallnacht, in memory of Boris Kagan (Z"L)
Dr. Eve Epstein


On the Anniversary of Kristallnacht
When times seem dark, it is more important than ever to hold on to hope, be kind to one another and never ever give up.
Phyllis Lee


Memory and Renewal
One family's story that demonstrates the resiliency and regeneration of Jewish Survivors in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
Dr. Eve Epstein


L'DOR V'DOR (From Generation to Generation)
The Author with his mother and father and older brother.
Chaim Litewski


True Exile
A friend of mine, also a child of survivors, recently mused, “The Holocaust is the biggest event in my life that I wasn’t part of.” ...
Phyllis Lee


Love letters
Dear Friends and Supporters, My father told me that there were four stages of romantic love which may cycle over any number of times...
Phyllis Lee


INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY 2022
For children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, it may feel like every day is Holocaust Remembrance Day. It’s in our every cell,...
Phyllis Lee


"After the Final No" awarded The JDC Documentary Film Grant
"After The Final No" has been awarded the 2021 JDC Documentary Film Grant
JDC Archives


Turning the Page
New Years eve 1945 Watching the revelers at Times Square last night on TV, my own glass of champagne at the ready for the midnight...
Phyllis Lee


Survivors' Yom Kippur: September 1945
How is the Yom Kippur fast of Holocaust survivors different from everyone else's? Edith Cohen recalls her hunger pangs in a sealed cattle...
Shira Leibowitz Schmidt


Unexpected Alliances
The war had not only destroyed communities and families but it had also brought about alliances that would have been unlikely , if not...
Mary and Paul Littmann


A Day for Them and A Day for Us
I met Marian Turski in November 2013, when I was attending the UN Climate Change Conference in Warsaw. I had gotten his contact details...
Phyllis Lee
