Holocaust

Several years ago, I went off to research a remarkable community that has a history of sheltering vulnerable outsiders. I went looking for clues to how a community like that operates. I hoped I could learn some general lessons there about how groups of people…

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A man was cornered and beaten in what police are calling a random attack on a Brooklyn street.Surveillance video shows the disturbing incident on Warsoff Place between Flushing and Park Avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Four men can be s…

Holocaust survivors urge Congress to let them sue European insurance companies...

Holocaust survivors urge Congress to let them sue European insurance companies...

Provocateur Milo Yiannopolous was once the new darling of right-wing media. But after his equivocal opinions on pedophilia were publicized--and then the extent of his interactions with white supremacists--he found his platforms disappear one by one. A week af…

Last week, a few miles from the Pentagon, at a dance studio in a strip mall, Sean Spicer slid several feet on his knees across a polished wooden floor. A producer wearing khaki shorts with pineapples on them coached him from the sidelines: When youre done sli…

The Holocaust Memorial Towers, 1998. Turns out six million numbers can make you sad. I wrap my arms around Danny. Mommy, are you OK? he asks. Yes, darling, I say, telling a mothers lie, like number 169067, when she answered Ill be back, and she knew the answe…

Growing up in the 1960s and '70s, Steven B. Smith couldn't wait to escape the small, nearly all-Mormon town of Springville, Utah. In those Cold War years, many Mormons believed the apocalypse was imminent, in the form of a nuclear holocaust. "We were truly li…

There are many forms of trauma, each with its particular psychological repercussions. At the same time, some after-effects are shared by many who have been traumatized. Those who suffered through the Holocaust experienced multiple traumas, including fear for…

There are many forms of trauma. Each is unique and has its own particular psychological repercussions. At the same time, though, some after-effects are shared by many who have been traumatized. Those who suffered through the Holocaust experienced multiple tr…