About: Heidi
Recent Posts by Heidi
VOICES FROM THE REGION: From Bergen-Belsen to Ukraine
MANTRAYA.ORG The war in Ukraine and the atrocities committed there, with accompanying claims of genocide and Nazism, have made remembrance of the Holocaust more relevant than ever. We are confronted by perhaps the most serious challenge to the international rule of law since the end of World War II and, unfortunately, we are also confronted with…
» Continue Reading
Written on June 18, 2022 at
Categories: Homepage, Journalism
Discussing Genocide at Bergen-Belsen | Opinion
NEWSWEEK.COM My visit earlier this month to the site of the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen, in northern Germany, was nothing less than surreal. At this very place during the final months of World War II, over 50,000 prisoners, most of them Jews, died of typhus, extreme malnutrition and other virulent diseases. And now, on…
» Continue Reading
Written on June 3, 2022 at
Categories: Homepage, Journalism
Never again? The legacy of Belsen
THEARTICLE.COM When a five-year-old child was chained and left outside in a courtyard to die by her ISIS captor, her enslaved mother never thought she would see justice done. Six years later, on October 25th, 2021, Jennifer Wenisch, a 30-year old German convert who had joined Islamic State, was convicted of crimes against humanity and…
» Continue Reading
Written on May 23, 2022 at
Categories: Journalism
‘They are not human’: ISIS, the Yazidis and Germany
When a five-year-old child was chained and left outside in a courtyard to die by her ISIS captor, her enslaved mother never thought she would see justice done. Six years later, on October 25th, 2021, Jennifer Wenisch, a 30-year old German convert who had joined Islamic State, was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced…
» Continue Reading
Written on December 6, 2021 at
Categories: Journalism
Why we need to talk about genocide
Menachem Rosensaft lives with ghosts. That’s perhaps not so surprising as one of them is his brother Benjamin. The latter was five and a half when the Nazis sent him to the gas chambers in Birkenau, along with his father and other family members. Ghosts have haunted the Renaissance-like writer, poet, human rights activist, and…
» Continue Reading
Written on December 6, 2021 at
Categories: Journalism
Recent Comments by Heidi
No comments by Heidi yet.