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Sep 20, 2026, 5:59 PM

Why I Took a College Basketball Team to Berlin

Davidson College basketball players at Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp

My father passed away almost exactly one year ago. My dad was deeply proud of the work I do in Holocaust education. But I think what mattered most to him was not simply that I was teaching history. He believed...

Jan 26, 2025, 11:53 PM

A Legacy and a Promise

Stacy Gallin and Eva Mozes Kor

I first met Eva Mozes Kor, a survivor of the Holocaust and Josef Mengele’s twin experiments, in the summer of 2017. I spent two days with her, during which time I interviewed her about her experience as a Mengele...

Nov 10, 2024, 2:24 AM

86 Years Later, Another November Pogrom

November 9-10, 1938. Multiple, violent attacks on Jews by the local, non-Jewish community spread through a Western European nation, striking fear in the hearts of those who have already been experiencing record-levels of antisemitism about what the future holds for...

Oct 7, 2024, 6:29 AM

October 7: A Day to Remember, Not to Protest

October 7, 2024, will mark the one-year anniversary of the deadliest assault on the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Some are holding vigils and memorial services honoring the dead and the wounded, those who have given their lives in...

Sep 2, 2024, 11:48 AM

Our Responsibility to Rachel

On October 6, 2023, Rachel Goldberg-Polin was not a household name. Raised in Chicago, she graduated from Brandeis University in 1992 and became a teacher. She and her husband Jonathan moved to Israel with their three children in the...

May 3, 2024, 8:02 AM

Can Academia Regain Its Moral Compass?

Stories, whether fact or fiction, have a beginning, a middle and an end. Sometimes, a narrative can become filled with so many twists and turns that it can be hard to remember how it started and impossible to envision...

Jan 28, 2024, 8:20 AM

A Letter to Survivors on Holocaust Remembrance Day

We have failed you. When the world found out about the atrocities committed at the hands of the Nazis, you were promised, “Never Again.” Trials were held. Testimony and records showed, without any shadow of a doubt, the brutality...

Nov 9, 2023, 3:08 PM

Our Time is Now: Turning Grief into Action

Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Depression. Acceptance. These are the five stages of grief put forth by Elisabeth Kübler Ross in her book, On Death and Dying. They are also what many Jews have been feeling since October 7th. Denial. The Hamas...

Oct 9, 2023, 9:57 PM

A War on Human Dignity

The death toll from this weekend’s attack against Israel represents the deadliest assault on Jews since the Holocaust. Speaking on American television on Sunday morning, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken described the scene in Israel by saying,...

Oct 4, 2023, 8:32 PM

As antisemitism soars, can Biden succeed where Trump failed?

The new antisemitism strategy takes an inclusive approach, seeking justice and tolerance for many groups in today's multi-faith, multicultural reality

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About Me

Dr. Stacy Gallin is the Founding Director of the Benjamin Ferencz Institute for Ethics, Human Rights and the Holocaust located in New Jersey. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University.