The Psycho Boys – by Beverly Driver Eddy
By Sheldon Goldberg On the edge of the Gettysburg Battlefield was a former camp known as CCC Gettysburg 2. Initially housing an all-black Civilian Conservation Corps unit, the camp was […]
Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War: the Union Army – by Adam D. Mendelsohn
By Sheldon Goldberg, PhD Ten years ago, when I became a Docent and Historian at the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, I was honored to follow in the […]
In the Lion’s Den: Israel and the World – by Danny Danon
By Sheldon Goldberg, PhD “In the Lion’s Den” is a day-by-day, autobiography of the author’s five-year tour as Israel’s 17th Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) and his life. Danon, an […]
Three Minutes – A Lengthening
By Ben Kane, Membership Director There was something odd happening in the Polish town of Nasielsk on a sunny day in 1938. A man by the name of David Kurtz […]
X Troop: The Secret Jewish commandos of World War II By Leah Garrett
By Sheldon Goldberg, PhD “X Troop” is an eye-opening war story about young Jewish refugees from Germany, Austria, and Hungary who came to England with one desire – to return […]
The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust
By Rafael Medoff For those of us old enough to remember the esteem with which American Jews held President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the U.S. effort against Nazi Germany in […]
The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and Its Aftermath By Dan Stone
By Sheldon Goldberg, Ph.D. Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazis built more than 20,000 transit, slave labor, and extermination camps throughout Germany and conquered territories. Millions of men, women, and […]
Final Account
By Ben Kane “Final Account” begins with a quote from Holocaust survivor Primo Levi. The quote does an exceptional job of summarizing the message of the film. “Monsters exist, but […]
Comrades Betrayed: Jewish World War I Veterans Under Hitler
By Sheldon Goldberg, PhD Between 1914 and 1918, 100,000 German Jews wore the field grey uniform of the Kaiser’s army to fight for Germany. Eighty-thousand served in combat and 12,000 […]
It Shouldn’t Be This Hard to Serve Your Country by David Shulkin
By Peter Nickitas, JWV National Judge Advocate “It Shouldn’t Be This Hard to Serve Your Country” describes the public service of the first Jewish-American Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Dr. David […]
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