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Jun 16, 2026, 5:34 AM

A Camera In Dachau: Burden of the Jewish Liberator

Corpses in an open railcar of the Dachau death train taken by the author’s grandfather at Dachau, in the spring of 1945.

The questions began when we named our fourth child after my grandfather. Like many Jewish families, naming a child after a loved one felt deeply meaningful a way of honoring someone and carrying their memory forward. But after my son's...

Jun 4, 2026, 8:19 PM

Marcel Deat and the Art of Peace

Why die for Danzig? An absolutely meaningless phrase in 2026 given that Danzig is now called Gdansk, and that it is a relatively unimportant port city on Poland’s Baltic Coast. But in 1939 it was the rallying cry of those citizens...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 27, 2026, 11:18 AM

Europe Needs Israel to Join the European Union

Europe is careening toward strategic irrelevance as Iranian proxies tighten their noose around its southern flank and radical Islam spreads through its streets and no-go zones. Israel is the hard-power partner the European Union can no longer afford to...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 26, 2026, 6:55 AM

France: A Future Islamic Nuclear Power?

Shiite Muslim women march toward the French Consulate during a rally against French President Emmanuel Macron and the republishing of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad they deem blasphemous, in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

France stands at an existential demographic, cultural, and geostrategic crossroads that could permanently transform Europe and reorder global power. Reliable estimates place the Muslim population at 6 to 7 million—nearly 10 percent of the total. That share has exploded...

Janet Bond Brill

May 18, 2026, 4:52 AM

A Jewish Child, Three Popes, and the One Who Said Nothing

In November 1946, a twelve-year-old girl stood before Pius XII and received a medal. She was a Jewish child from the Warsaw Ghetto, passing as a Catholic orphan. The Pope blessed her. He made the sign of the cross over her...

May 17, 2026, 4:51 PM

The Art of Surviving and Surviving of Art

The Monuments Men recovering Vermeer's The Art of Painting and Drost's Man with Plumed Red Beret. May 1945. The Leiden Collection. With kind permission.

History Thriller about Art, Good and Evil In mid-March 2026, at the annual TEFAF Maastricht art fair of the best fine art on the market, a very meaningful acquisition of the great work by the fantastically talented pupil of Rembrandt...

Janet Bond Brill

May 14, 2026, 10:54 PM

The Power and the Heartbreak of the Written Word

On Ringelblum’s milk cans, Anne Frank’s diary, and a grandmother who softened her story for the camera There is a page I cannot stop thinking about. It is dated June 1941. Warsaw. The handwriting runs edge to edge across the paper,...

Eugene J. Levin

May 11, 2026, 8:39 AM

The Riga Witness, the Vilnius Defendant

For five years, I researched and documented the history and legacy of the Baltic Holocaust while producing my documentary Baltic Truth, now available on Amazon Prime Video. The 220-page indictment against Artur Fridman is not an isolated event—it is...

May 10, 2026, 3:53 PM

Europe Was Born When Evil Was Defeated, Not Invited to the Table

Europe Day is the story of a continent whose wars turned destruction into order, enmity into partnership, and coal and steel into peace. That is why it is dangerous: its beauty tempts us to forget that beneath the open...

Alexander Lutsenko

May 8, 2026, 6:04 PM

Ukraine, its Jews and the victory over Nazism that Russia is trying to steal

Ukraine paid an enormous price for the defeat of Nazism — including its Jewish population — yet Moscow keeps turning a multiethnic tragedy into a Russian political myth. There is a dangerous habit in the way World War II is...

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