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A Righteous Woman: Doña Gracia Mendes Nasi

Beatrice Nasi, who would come to be known as Doña Gracia, one of the richest women in the world, was born in 1510 in Portugal, where her forcibly-baptized, Crypto Jewish family fled from the nearby Spanish Inquisition. She worked to find a safe place for Jews, setting up an underground network to help Jews leave … Continued

Thou Shalt Not Stand Idly By: How One Woman Confronted the Greatest Humanitarian Crisis of Our Time

Defiance in Connecticut: “When Southbury Said No”

The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: Thomas Geve

Remembering Resistance: Sophie Scholl and the White Rose

Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World

Drawing It Out: Graphic Novels, Teenagers, and the Holocaust

Behind the Scenes with Dr. Ruth and Tovah Feldshuh

A Shameful Legacy: Japanese American Incarceration in the United States

Rewriting History: The Politics of Memory in Poland

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