Tag: camps

How Sobibor Was Different From Other Death Camps

This week, I’ve been reading Daniel Finkelstein’s brilliant new memoir, Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin and the Miraculous Survival of My Family (Doubleday 2023), which deals with his Jewish family’s life in Nazi death camps and in the Gulag. The “miraculous” i...

Podcast: Interviews with refugees in Greek camps

When I arrived in Lesvos in mid January of this year it was my first time returning to Greece, to the Island, and to Moria Refugee Camp since January of 2016. Much had changed in the intervening years, and much has changed just in the 5 weeks since I left Greece. The focus and purpose of my recen...