Brighton resident Meyer Hack endured unspeakable horrors during World War II, where as a prisoner of the Nazi concentration camps, he lost his family and saw thousands perish. In a place created to destroy people, Hack refused to be dehumanized and cheated death. He tied a string around his neck and pulled it before daily…

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Laundry work during World War I and World War II, especially in Nazi Germany and labor camps across Poland and surrounding areas, became a grim and harrowing experience for those forced into this labor. For many Jewish, Romani, and other marginalized groups targeted by Hitler’s regime, doing laundry in labor camps symbolized both the drudgery…

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