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The Holocaust Museum: Origins

My latest book, a critical biography entitled The Gospel According to Elie Wiesel, has just been released after 15 years in the making.  The book is available here: https://www.amazon.com/Gospel-According-Elie-Wiesel/dp/B0BKSCY45K/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1667295669&sr=8-8.      I am writing a series of profiles related to the book.  This is part iv.  In 1993, the United States Holocaust Museum on the Mall in Washington, D.C., opened its…

A Pipel’s War Story, part ii

A few weeks ago, I published a difficult story on this board.  I dug into a term known in the concentration camp universe.  A pipel, or a sex slave.  Basically, these young prisoners received privileges – extra food, removed from the grueling exhaustion of the work detail, protected from the frigid climate (except during roll call), and shielded…


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