Oh, my chosen people – a Transylvania Holocaust testimony | Dr. Moshe Berner
In 1947, a Hungarian Jewish doctor named Moshe Berner published a slim book in Hungarian. Its title was a bitter prayer: Oh, kiválasztott népem! — Oh, my chosen people! It is a Transylvania Holocaust testimony written with the clinical precision of a physician and the shattered tenderness of a father who lost everything. His wife Ida. Their…
Selma van de Perre – Jewish Dutch Resistance Fighter Who Lived a Double Life
I’d like to call your attention to Selma van de Perre, nee Velleman, a Jewish Dutch resistance fighter and concentration camp survivor who died in October 2025 at the age of 103. She wrote her autobiography to describe her experiences: van de Perre, S. (2021). My name is Selma: The remarkable memoir of a Jewish…
