Andrew Silverstein is a New York-based freelance writer and the co-founder of Streetwise New York Tours. In 2023, he was named “Best Freelancer of the Year” by the American Jewish Press Association.
Andrew Silverstein
By Andrew Silverstein
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Culture How I stumbled upon thousands of Holocaust-era letters and traced the stories behind them
The letters were hidden in plain sight at Yad Vashem. Most of their writers’ families had never seen them. Until now.
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Culture This editor helped thousands of Holocaust survivors. But he rarely talked about it.
Isaac Metzker was the driving force behind the Forward's Seeking Relatives and Bintel Brief columns
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Culture How one newspaper column saved lives, reunited families and changed the course of Jewish history
During the Holocaust and its aftermath, the Forward's Seeking Relatives helped thousands when no one else could
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Culture In New York, migrants crowd into hotels seeking shelter — just like Jewish refugees did after WWII
At the Roosevelt, the Park West and the Belnord, echoes of Holocaust survivors' stories
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Film & TV The heroic WWII rescue story that Netflix’s ‘Transatlantic’ leaves out
The Jewish Labor Committee rescued more than a thousand Jews — so why hasn't anyone heard of them?
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News George Santos’ latest doozy: Records show his mom wasn’t in NYC on 9/11
The embattled congressman's claim that his mother worked in the World Trade Center is contradicted by newly discovered documents
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Culture George Santos’ fake ‘Jew-ish’ story is not the most troubling lie he told
In questioning Santos' 'Jew-ishness,' critics are overlooking a much more important story
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News Congressman-elect George Santos lied about grandparents fleeing anti-Jewish persecution during WWII
Genealogy websites show his mother’s parents were born in Brazil, not Ukraine or Belgium, as his campaign website stated
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