by John Weiser | Aug 28, 2026 | Holocaust
During the Nazi book burnings of 1933, students and Nazi supporters destroyed works by authors such as Erich Maria Remarque, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Helen Keller, Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, Bertolt Brecht, and Heinrich Mann. The campaign...
by John Weiser | Aug 18, 2026 | Holocaust
How did Nazi Germany fall? This question has fascinated historians and military strategists for generations. The swift collapse of what Hitler had called his “Thousand-Year Reich” in just twelve years represents one of history’s most dramatic...
by John Weiser | Aug 18, 2026 | Holocaust
The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million European Jews by Nazi Germany and its allies and collaborators (USHMM). The question of how Jewish people survived the Holocaust is not merely historical curiosity—it honors the...
by John Weiser | Aug 10, 2026 | A Thousand Kisses, Blog
Photo by freepik The ethics of survival as a Jewish refugee were never simple or clean. During the Holocaust, millions were forced to face a terrible choice: follow the morality of normal life or break those rules to see another sunrise. This struggle to live...
by John Weiser | Aug 10, 2026 | A Thousand Kisses, Memoir
Photo by jcomp Choosing the right narrative style for a Holocaust memoir is not easy. Some people think these stories must be told in a very serious, factual way and worry that fancy writing might make the pain seem less real. But this idea misses something...