This photo is from a social event in Israel for Holocaust survivors. One of the greatest challenges facing the elderly is social isolation and loneliness. The good news is that these gatherings bring together a group of survivors and members of their community who volunteer for לתת Latet, the event organizer […]
Here is a page from ‘The Book of Names of Holocaust Victims’. The Book features the alphabetically arranged names of 4,800,000 Holocaust victims currently documented. At the end of the Book there are blank pages symbolizing the more than 1 million identities yet to be recovered. Standing at 6.56 feet […]
King Charles dances with Holocaust survivors at a Hanukkah party in London.
Tova Friedman, Sarah Ludwig, and Mike Bornstein are three of the children pictured in an iconic photograph from the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27th, 1945. Here the three survivors are seen holding that image together over 70 years later in the United States. Source: American Society for Yad Vashem
#MazalTov to Holocaust survivors Abe Sloma and Chava Felner Sloma, who are celebrating their 75th wedding anniversary today! Both Abe and Chava were born in Poland and survived the war after fleeing to Siberia. When the war broke out, Abe was smuggled across the Russian border and sent to the […]
Facebook now recognizes Holocaust denial as a form of hate speech.
94-year-old Jack Holzberg survived the Holocaust and he survived COVID-19. He was at NY Presbyterian Cornell Weil and then spent a follow up week at Care One in Whippany, NJ, where he was discharged yesterday—- they rolled out the red carpet for him!His granddaughter Erica Wasserman tells Good News Movement, “he […]
The unbelievable moment Holocaust survivor Lila sees her grandson flying over her home in Israel. Source: Israel Defense Forces
EL AL CEO Gonen Usishkin welcomed 99-year-old Holocaust survivor Marthe Cohn and her husband Major Cohn to Israel. It is Marthe’s first time in Israel! She’s visiting for the premiere of a film, which tells the story of her life and is screening at the Haifa Film Festival. Marthe Cohn […]
“The Torah Scroll in this picture, belonged to a Northern European Jewish community that perished during the Holocaust and has been roaming through Europe ever since. Next week’s Rosh Hashana and Yom Kipur service will be the first time in 75 years that this Torah will be used. The scroll, […]
After Nazis invaded Romania during the Holocaust, these cousins were forced to flee separately and both thought the other had been killed. Now, 75 years, they’re seeing each other again for the first time. ❤️ Source: People
Holocaust survivors Sigi and Hanka Siegreich met on New Year’s Eve, 1944 while imprisoned in a Nazi slave-labour camp in Częstochowa, Poland. Normally, men and women in the camp were forbidden from speaking to each other, but on this night, the men were allowed to visit the female barracks. The […]
Shoshana Ovitz survived Auschwitz. After the war, she met her husband Dov, who lost his wife & children in the concentration camps. Together, they moved to Haifa, Israel where she worked as a tailor and helped her husband in his business. Shoshana just celebrated her 104th birthday. As a gift, […]
Holocaust survivor Saul Dreier blowing the shofar at the Kotel! Born in Krakow, Poland, Saul was the only member of his immediate family to survive the Shoah. He survived the Kraków ghetto and several concentration camps, including Plaszów, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, and Linz. After the war, Saul was sent to a […]
On the eve of Menachem Haberman’s bar mitzvah in 1940, Hungarian troops committed a pogrom near his town synagogue in Munkács. Menachem’s father was taken away and the rest of the family was later deported to Auschwitz. His mother and sisters were immediately sent to the gas chambers. In 1945, […]
Holocaust survivor Hanna Tessler holding the hand of her granddaughter, Israel Defense Forces soldier Shira Tessler, during this year’s annual Yom HaShoah ceremony at Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem. Photo: Abir Sultan AFP News Agency Getty Images Source: American Society for Yad Vashem Young Leadership Associates
Click here to read: Yad Vashem’s Young Leadership Takes Holocaust Education to a New Audience by Cindy Grosz The Young Leadership Associates Chairpersons are Rachel Shnay and Josh Gelnick. Many young “celebrity bloggers” like Humans Of Judaism and Jewish Chick attended. Reality star, best-selling author and Jewish activist, Siggy Flicker, was […]
Eva Heller arrived at the Prague airport with her father, Ewald, and her brother, Holger, on January 12, 1939. She and 22 other children waved goodbye to their parents for the camera, then boarded a KLM plane bound for London on a Kindertransport organized by Sir Nicholas Winton. She would […]
CONDOLENCES: It is with great sadness to share the passing of Holocaust survivor Simcha Rotem. Simcha, aka Kazik, was one of the last surviving fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. He served as the head courier of the ZOB (Jewish Combat Organization) and helped many escape the ghetto through the […]
It’s Friday of Thanksgiving weekend and I’m in Israel, but not alone. I met up with the Nefesh B’Nefesh-FIDF Lone Soldiers, who also are not alone. There was one soldier in particular that I was fortunate to meet. Meir and Sarah Riebenfeld narrowly escaped Nazi Germany in 1936 to build […]
Magda Brown, 91, of Skokie, Ill., traveled to Pittsburgh hours after the synagogue shooting for a scheduled speech about her experiences in the Holocaust. “Now the world needs to hear the message even more,” she said. (Dan Zak/Washington Post)
This Holocaust Survival Story is Amazing and Badass
Andy Cohen visits Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem for the first time and his message is powerful. “This is my first visit to Yad Vashem… It was absolutely incredible, unforgettable and very emotional, I’m completely overwhelmed. Even if you think you know, there are points of entry that will […]
These Holocaust survivors stood in the same line at Auschwitz in 1944 — and they just met for the first time Source: Now This
Johnny Jablon began preparing for his bar mitzvah in Poland in the summer of 1939. A month later, the Germans invaded. Now 92 years of age, Jablon returned to Poland for the first time since World War II to finally celebrate his bar mitzvah. Born the second of three sons […]
WATCH: A 93-year-old Holocaust survivor receives a Bar Mitzvah A month before Samuel Heider was to be bar mitzvahed World War II broke out. When the Nazis invaded Poland, where the 93-year-old lived in a small village, his family was separated and sent to concentration camps. His parents, sisters and brothers […]
Holocaust survivor and artist Kalman Aron died last month at age 93. He began drawing when he was 3, and had his first gallery show in Riga, Latvia, at age 7. At 13 he was commissioned to paint the Latvian prime minister’s official portrait. In 1941 the Germans invaded and […]
#WeRemember January 27, 2018 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Source: ידיעות אחרונות Yedioth Ahronoth
Eliahu Pietruszka had grown up thinking his whole family had been killed in a Nazi death camp. Source: Channel 4 News
J & E The Legacy Collection …the number is the story. Click photo for more information. Click photo to purchase. Seeing a mix of letters and numbers tattooed on your grandparents’ forearm is something you never forget. My grandmother, Ella (Lucak) Rogozinski, has a number. It is A5674. My grandfather, […]
Tova Friedman, Sarah Ludwig, and Mike Bornstein are three of the children pictured in an iconic photograph from the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27th, 1945. Here the three survivors are seen holding that image together 72 years later in America. Source: American Society for Yad Vashem Young Leadership Associates
