![Surviving the Holocaust in Libya, Starting Over in Israel](https://jewishdiversitystories.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/shay_lavi-1600x900-1-510x382.jpeg)
Whenever we talk about my grandmother in my family, someone always says, “A stranger will not understand this.”
![Reflections on Illness, Separation, and “BallinStadt,” My Family’s Ellis Island](https://jewishdiversitystories.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Emigration_Museum_1600_900-1600x900-1-510x382.jpg)
The former emigration station in Hamburg has special meaning for me because both of my grandfathers departed for Colombia from there in the 1930s.
![75 years After Auschwitz, Greek Survivor Continues to Inspire](https://jewishdiversitystories.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/GreekHolocaustSurvivor-1600x861-1-510x382.jpg)
Reflecting on the liberation of Auschwitz, a young Greek Jew takes up the torch of memory.
![Reimagining A Holocaust Classic](https://jewishdiversitystories.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/57608a9c15d98-510x341.png)
Music and Judaism go hand in hand.
![Lighting to be Seen](https://jewishdiversitystories.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/light2-300x212-1.jpg)
“He was a tall man with broad shoulders, the type we used to call ‘a real goliath,’ powerful and with an unusual personality to boot."