“In the last days of World War II, nine-year-old Ota Heller picked up a revolver and fired it at a Nazi. He did not wait to see if the man was still alive.” — Radio Prague    Join us Wednesday for a free event:  Prague: My Long Journey Home A Story of Survival, Denial, and…

      In 1979, Senator John Danforth of Missouri introduced legislation to designate eight days of each year as “The Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust.” Events are held throughout the nation–including federal government agencies–to commemorate the victims and to educate Americans about the horrors of the Holocaust.      I was honored to be…

  Several members of my family–including my grandmother, Otilie Hellerova, and my best friend and great-grandfather, Gustav Neumann–made their way through this gate. The sign above it informed them that “work will make you free.” Instead, it was a gateway to hell. Terezin, a concentration camp located in the Czech Republic, was a stopping point on the…