What seems like a divine series of events has culminated in the publication of the Holocaust diary of a 14 year old girl. Here's what we know: -When Rywka Lipszyc began her diary, she had lived in the Lodz ghetto for more than three years and had already lost both of her parents. -her diary cover six months in the Lodz ghetto starting in 1943. -Zinaida Berezovskaya, A Soviet Red Army doctor found the diary beside a crematorium at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945. - Berezovskaya kept the diary hidden in a closet in her home in Omsk (in southwestern Siberia) until her death...
One Word, 6 Million Times: “And Every Single One Was Someone.”
Today is the the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and UN General Assembly has designated this day as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It started innocently enough. As a math and Jewish studies teacher in a Jewish day school, Phil Chernofsky was looking for a different and meaningful way for his students to relate to the Holocaust. From that challenge comes “And Every Single One Was Someone” The cover depicts a Jewish prayer shawl and has no words. The entire book consists of just one word: Jew. It is repeated 6 million times. Each page has 40 columns of 120 lines...