“I had heard the stories of how cold Auschwitz was. I had heard the stories of how the working conditions coped with the treatment from Nazis had resulted in death only outcomes for the Jewish people. While I visited Auschwitz, I decided to take off 3 layers of clothes just […]
“Our Bubby, Channa Wiesel. A #Holocaust survivor… passed away over this past #Pesach. Her absolute favorite Yom Tov! She would always cry that in #Auschwitz they never had #Matzah to fulfill the Mitzvah… this year she was still able to have Afikomen. It was the last thing she ate. 1 […]
Source: Libu Kessler
Although the Israel leg of his Bar Mitzvah trip has been postponed, Josh and family celebrated his Bar Mitzvah over a shabbat in Budapest. Josh decided to put on T’fillin for the first time while standing on the railroad tracks leading into The Auschwitz-Birkenau. Josh wanted to do this to […]
Iconic fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg has published a new memoir, titled “The Woman I Wanted to Be,” which covers many of the themes that have filled her life. Von Furstenberg’s mom, Liliane Nahmias, married just six months after emerging from internment at Auschwitz. Diane was the child she never […]
