Issues 04:07 A Russian Doctor

No reporters have visited the prison camps of Soviet Russia, unless they have gone as prisoners. So to this day we have little information about the millions who have lived, suffered, and died there, especially during Stalin’s reign of terror. Most will remain nameless for all time, remembered only in the hearts of those who…

My parents came from Russia to the United States in 1911. My mother used to tell me stories of the atrocities and pogroms suffered by our people there at Passover time. A gentile child would be hidden, and we Jews would be accused of killing him and using his blood to make matzohs. Then great…

Reb Nahum, the bookbinder, was enraged. Master of the Universe!” he cried as he stormed through the forest. “Is it right that Your people should suffer so? Is it?!” The only answer was the sound of Reb Nahum’s pacing footsteps crackling the heather and fern on the forest floor. “Authorities,” Nahum muttered to himself as…