Dr. Yaacov Lozowick

Malice in Action

The enemy stood at the gate. The citizens rushed about in confusion as destruction threatened the city. Those who could fled. But there were air raids around the clock, and the routes of escape became less and less accessible. The more resourceful armed themselves with false papers. Columns of smoke billowing up from the bombed-out buildings mingled with the fumes from burning documents. In the midst of the barbarism of war and devastation, however, there were still a few who managed to remain... Continue reading

The Anguish of Liberation and the Return to Life

“The camp guard who came to open the gate said, ‘You are free and you can leave.’ …No one moved, no one went out.  We did not laugh, we were not happy, we were apathetic - and the Russians came.  A general came in, he was Jewish.  He told us that he was delighted to find that there were still people alive in the camp.  He started to cry; but we didn’t. He wept and we didn’t.” Bela Braver, deported to Auschwitz, liberated from Lichtewerden, Czechoslovakia, by the Red Army. On... Continue reading