I don't often post news articles, but I wanted to post this one.

Scholars run down more clues to a Holocaust mystery By ARTHUR MAX and RANDY HERSCHAFT, Associated Press WritersSun Apr 27, 3:51 PM ET ( Read more... )

I am reading an absolutely fascinating book: The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duffy. It's a non-fiction account of three Jewish brothers who escaped into the woods during the Nazi occupation of Poland, and formed a large and effective guerilla unit to fight the Nazis. Not only that, but they rescued and sheletered over a large number of 'civilian,' ( Read more... )

The best thing about discovering I like anime? The treasure trove of badfic I can mock now ( Read more... )

When we were in Jerusalem, we went to Yad Vashem Holocaust museum. It was a horrifying couple of hours. Walking through the Children's Memorial, with its infinity of candles in the sheer darkness and a voice intoning the name, age and nationality of the child is truly awful (Apparently, to hear the same name of the murdered child again you'd have ( Read more... )