Explore Janet Bond Brill’s published essays on Holocaust history, Jewish resistance, survivor testimony, and the remarkable true story behind Little Edna’s War.
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Read Janet’s latest historical essays published in The Times of Israel.
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Pius Was Silent. Leo Will Not Be.
My latest commentary examines Pope Pius XII’s wartime silence through the extraordinary story of Edna Szurek, a Jewish child survivor whom he honored as a Catholic war heroine, never knowing she had been born Jewish. The essay also explores Pope Leo XIV’s public condemnation of antisemitism and its significance today.
Selected Times of Israel Essays
She Saved Her Sister From the Nazis. The War Never Let Her Go.
Miriam saved her younger sister from the Nazis, but the trauma of war haunted her long after liberation.
To Be or Not to Be at Stalag X-B.
Inside a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp, theater became an act of survival, dignity, and defiance.
The Jester Who Mocked Death.
A wartime performer used humor to confront terror, preserve humanity, and defy despair.
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