Charles Ticho
The author, left, and three of his grandchildren join Israel’s ambassador to the Czech Republic at the dedication of the plaque honoring the Jewish prisoners the Nazis held in the Spielberg Fortress.
June 23, 2021, 5:56 pm
Remembering a father’s escape from the Shoah
By Charles Ticho
The cantor and soloist from Brno’s synagogue sing at the ceremony. Mr. Ticho stands at the far right.her on left side.
April 28, 2021, 5:52 pm
A house in Boskovice
Family gathers to remember its pre-Shoah past in the Czech Republic
By Charles Ticho
Charles Ticho
January 27, 2021, 4:59 pm
The 75-year-old secret 
Why did the doctor leave the 7-year-old his house?
By Charles Ticho
This firewagon, fighting a fire in Israel, is a gift of JNF-USA.
January 20, 2021, 6:56 pm
Crying over trees
Remembering the fires and looking toward regrowth in Israel on Tu B’Shevat
By Charles Ticho
Lev’s father, Aaron, second from right, visited the family in Poland before World War II and then returned to Russia. Only Aaron survived the Holocaust. 
August 13, 2020, 12:09 pm
Lost generations and family secrets
Learning, at long last, who you were crying for
By Charles Ticho
An Israeli firefighter battles a raging mountainside blaze outside Jerusalem last fall. (WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)
February 6, 2020, 9:57 am
A forest fire in Israel
Reflections about Tu B’Shvat, trees, flames, tears — and hope
By Charles Ticho
The war-ravaged interior of the synagogue in Brno.
September 19, 2019, 9:58 am
Remembering 1939
The last Rosh Hashanah in the ‘Small Temple’ in Brno, Czechoslovakia
By Charles Ticho
Charles Ticho during the shooting of “Hill 24 Does Not Answer” in 1954. Dr. Avraham Ticho and his wife, artist Anna Ticho, were his uncle and aunt.
May 23, 2019, 9:56 am
‘Hill 54 does not answer’
Hackensack filmmaker recalls making the film in Mitzpe Ramon in 1954
By Charles Ticho
October 10, 2014, 4:00 am
An American’s Yom Kippur in Israel
By Charles Ticho
May 31, 2013, 4:00 am
Hands reach across the void
By Charles Ticho
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