Elizabeth Svoboda

Elizabeth Svoboda

Elizabeth Svoboda is a writer based in San Jose, California and the author of What Makes a Hero?: The Surprising Science of Selflessness.

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A mother sits with five of her children at a Displaced Persons Camp in Europe.

In the wake of the Holocaust, the Allies set up the camps throughout Europe to offer temporary homelands to traumatized populations.

How a Horrible Accident Transformed Frida Kahlo's Outlook and Art

After a trolley car collided with a bus carrying the 18-year-old Mexican artist, pain and resilience emerged as perennial themes in her work.