Ariella Goodman

A Deadly Lie: Streicher's Campaign to Criminalize the Jewish People

On October 16th, 1946, Julius Streicher was executed in Nuremberg. Ever so loyal to the Nazi cause, as he approached the gallows, he yelled out “Heil Hitler!”and once he was at the gallows, he screamed “Purim festival 1946!” Streicher was well-versed in the Jewish culture he detested and understood the significance of an enemy of the Jews being hanged. Dubbed the “World Jew-baiter No.1”, Streicher founded and published Der Sturmer, a popular German newspaper entirely devoted to... Continue reading

Manufacturing Hate: Nazi Photography and the "Parasite" Image in the Warsaw Ghetto

1939 in the Warsaw Ghetto. Emanuel Ringelblum decided to refute the Nazi narrative of Polish Jewry. Ringelblum, forty years old at the time, was the perfect man for the job: he was an eminent historian whose doctorate focused on the early history of Warsaw Jewry. He was also a realist. Professor Samuel Kassow argues in his book Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archives that after the Great Deportation in late 1942, Ringelblum feared there... Continue reading

When Hope Triumphs Over the Past: Life After the Holocaust

The American journalist Tom Brokaw called the Americans who grew up within the hardships of the Great Depression and fought valiantly in World War II “the greatest generation.” The war had shaped them into caring fathers and devoted husbands, teaching them eternal values like personal responsibility, honor and faith. While they certainly grappled with battle scars, both physical and emotional, these disciplined veterans did so in a constructive manner that spared their loved ones. These... Continue reading