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Karen A. Frenkel

Mar 5, 2023, 4:16 AM

On Shipwrecked Migrants and Refugees Then and Now

Last Tuesday morning I woke up to a horrific story that Reuters ran about 59 refugees whose ship sank off the coast of Italy. Among them were twelve children. Evidently they were Afghan and Iranian refugees, who had for...

Feb 12, 2023, 5:45 PM

Four Winters, Eight Partisans

If you've heard it said that during World War II European Jews went like sheep to their slaughter, or if you think that, go see Julia Mintz’s Four Winters: A Story of Jewish Partisan Resistance and Bravery in World...

May 23, 2022, 7:14 AM

From refugees to guests

Last April, 23 members of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue (SWFS) in New York City arrived in Poland on a mission –– to distribute 86 blue duffel bags stuffed with a ton of most-needed supplies for Ukrainian refugees. They...

Apr 14, 2022, 7:50 PM

The Ratline in Manhattan

Late last week I attended my first book party since COVID and it was well worth the wait. Phillipe Sands, international lawyer and author of the acclaimed East West Street (2016) and host of the BBC's “The Ratline” was...

Mar 22, 2022, 3:24 PM

The bombs sound the same

When I heard last February that Russian troops were massing along the borders of Ukraine, I immediately thought of my father’s hometown, Lviv, Ukraine. My husband and I had visited Lviv in 2016 on my quest to learn more...

About Me

Karen A. Frenkel is an award-winning technology journalist, author, and documentary producer. Her documentaries, Minerva’s Machine, on women and computing, and Net.LEARNING, about e-learning, aired on Public Television. Her many articles have appeared in Businessweek.com, FastCompany.com, Science Magazine, ScientificAmerican.com, Communications of the ACM and many other magazines. Ms. Frenkel co-authored with Isaac Asimov Robots: Machines in Man’s Image. She is producing Family Treasures Lost and Found, a documentary feature and web short series, and is writing a companion memoir about her investigative quest to fill gaps in her parents' WWII wartime experiences.

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