Author: Laura Crowe
To Kill Twice
“For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. … Continue reading →
Living Memory
Return to Haifa is a novella by writer and political activist Ghassan Kanafani who was assassinated by Mossad in 1972. The story was written in 1969 in the aftermath of the 1967 June War (or Six Day War), in which … Continue reading →
Zionism in Practice
If you were to visit the estate of notorious Nazi propagandist and war criminal Julius Streicher in 1946, you may have been surprised to see that the property had become the home of a group of Jewish teens and young … Continue reading →
The New Face of Hiroshima
On May 5, 1955, not long before the ten year anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, a group of young Japanese women departed from Tokyo for the United States to undergo reconstructive plastic surgery. These women were known as … Continue reading →
Troubled Homecoming
This work was painted in 1957 by French painter Guy de Montlaur. He was a resistance fighter and was at Normandy in 1944. He was also wounded in combat at Walcheren. This painting’s title, Fue (Fire), references his wartime experiences. Montlaur’s paintings after the war offered an outlet to express the trauma of war and …
“The DP Story”
World War II and its aftermath had a profound effect on the population of Europe. Millions were killed as the result of combat, occupation, and genocide. As the proverbial dust of the Second World War began to settle, millions more Europeans found themselves uprooted and scattered across a war-ravaged continent. The administering of these Displaced …
