When Michael Visontay’s mother died in 2020, he came upon a vast cache of his family’s papers. These held aspects of family history he already knew...
On the first Sunday of this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, Claude Lanzmann’s “Shoah” (1985) — a nine-and-a-half-hour documentary about the Holocaust — screened to a...
The plight of the writers can be read in the exclamation points. “Extremely urgent case!!!” wrote Blima Bierzonski, on Dec. 13, 1938 seeking entry for herself...
Marion Wiesel, who translated many books written by her husband, Elie Wiesel, including the final edition of his magnum opus, “Night,” and who encouraged him to...
