What does it take to keep hope alive in a place built to erase it? For Dita Kraus, it was in the ripped jackets of eight precious books hidden in the children’s block of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Only 14 ...
A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius.
Kraus survived Terezin Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen before moving to Israel in 1949; book published in 2012 brought story ...