Winner of the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize and the Wolfson History Prize In March of 1933, a disused factory surrounded by barbed wire held 223 prisoners in the town of Dachau.
Israeli storyteller Noa Baum grew up in Jerusalem in the shadow of the ancestral traumas of the holocaust and ongoing wars. Stories of the past and fear of annihilation in the wars of the '60s, '70s, and '80s shaped her perceptions and identity.
Looking back over the last six, almost seven decades, the images that flash through my mind are hardly believable - sometimes, it feels like I'm remembering someone else's life. The truth is, I've lived three very different lives: the one before pris
The plight of more than 5,000 Palestinian prisoners - the conditions of their arrest, detention, and care - continues to draw international attention and condemnation.
This history of British Peace Camps begins with some Peace Camping in the 1930s and then runs from Aldermaston in 1958 to the bombing of Libya by U.S.A.F. aircraft from Upper Heyford in 1986.