Did you know that the beloved character Paddington Bear, Paddington Movie, was inspired by Jewish children who escaped the Holocaust on the Kindertransport? Creator Michael Bond (1926-2017) was motivated by his memories of children arriving at London’s Reading station during WWII. These young refugees each carried a small suitcase and […]
Henry Foner was born in Berlin, Germany in 1932. He was one of 10,000 Jewish children who escaped the Holocaust on the #Kindertransport. From December 1938 until the outbreak of WWII in September 1939, thousands of children found refuge in Great Britain after being evacuated from their homes in Nazi-occupied […]
In 1953, Hanna Bloch Kohner became the first Holocaust survivor living in the US to share her personal story with American television audiences. During a live broadcast of “This Is Your Life,” host Ralph Edwards reunited Hanna with former friends from Europe, a G.I. who helped her after liberation, and […]
In the spring of 2018, Linda Ganzini attended the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Germany, where her uncle Arturo was killed. Arturo Meneguzzi was an Italian soldier who was taken prisoner by the Nazis. He died in 1945 at age 24, just weeks before […]
“A congregant sent this to me to check if they had put the Mezuzah back up correctly after it had “fallen”. I immediately noticed the despicable engravement next to the holy Mezuah. My grandparents lost their entire family in Nazi Germany, today they have over 100 descendants who devote their […]
This is Izzy Karten, born and raised in New York City, Izzy is a student at USC currently serving in the Israel Defense Forces. His grandparents, Holocaust survivors Julia and Isidore Karten, fought as Jewish partisans in the Swirz Forest in Eastern Galicia. Thank you, Izzy, for your service and […]
#Kristallnacht November 9-10, 1938 ✡️ 81 years later #AmYisraelChai Source: Chloe Schreiber — at Auschwitz
81 Years Ago Today: Kristallnacht night of terror, November 9-10, 1938, German mobs destroyed many vestiges of Jewish presence. A total of 1,350 Jewish synagogues were burnt to the ground or destroyed; 91 Jews were killed; 30,000 Jews were thrown into concentration camps; 7,000 Jewish businesses were destroyed; and thousands […]
“Below the house where I lived there was a Jewish-owned store. I saw how men in SA uniforms – they often had knee-high boots – came and kicked the store windows until they broke. Then people started clapping, shouting ‘Bravo.’ It was like a show they performed.” Walter Strauss was […]
To commemorate the anniversary of #Kristallnacht, the night of the broken glass, and in memory of the Holocaust, one of the biggest soccer teams in Brazil SC Corinthians Paulista sends a powerful message in solidarity with the Jewish community and Israel. All the seats in the stadium and the team’s […]
“Sitting in the window seat on this flight to Israel is Roland. Who is Roland, you ask? A 54-year-old blue-collar worker from Baden in the south of Germany, Roland is a professional house painter by trade. He travels to Israel once or twice a year. When Roland gets off the […]
This portrait is the most important photograph I’ve taken in my life. My father’s sister, Irene “Irka” Basista, visited my father about a month before he passed away a few years ago. We didn’t know it at the time, but this would be the last day they would ever see […]
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 […]
This is my mother 95 year old Auschwitz survivor Esther Klein. Just a typical day for her, keeping busy baking rugelach, cheese delkelach, apple struble and challah. All on her own (she lives alone). She admitted that she sat while rolling the rugelach! Oh my! Source: Fran Ganz
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 […]
“My origins are a mystery,” she begins, “though I know I’ve always held an important role.” Meet Babushka. “Why do they call me Babushka? It isn’t because of my age. They say there was someone special who saved my life.” “My earliest memory is from 1943. The world was full […]
As Holocaust survivor and Holocaust Museum volunteer Nat Shaffir recently summited Mount Kilimanjaro, his father’s words resonated in his mind: “Never give up.” Nat, who will turn 83 in December, is the first known Holocaust survivor to make the summit. This achievement comes one year after he completed his ninth […]
This past Sunday, Holocaust survivor Julius Eisenstein celebrated his 100th birthday! Julius was born on October 13, 1919 in Tomoszów Mazowiecki, Poland. He and his family were forced to live in the Jewish ghetto of their town from 1940-1943. From there, Julius was transported to the Blizin Labor Camp and […]
Holocaust survivor Daniel Gold was born in Šiauliai, Lithuania in 1937. He was interned in the Šiauliai ghetto for three years with his parents. Just before all the children of the ghetto were rounded up and sent to their deaths in 1943, Daniel’s mother hid him and his cousins in […]
“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 survivor Elias Feinzilberg was born in Łódź, Poland on October 22, 1917. When the war broke out, his entire family was forced into the Łódź Ghetto. Elias left to perform hard labor, as he was told that the Germans would pay his family for his work. But, they never […]
#MazalTov! Alex Borstein wins the 2019 emmy for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Watch as Borstein thanks her grandmother who survived the Holocaust and is the reason she is standing here today. Video: Rachel Shnay
Meet Mendel Glick, the Holocaust survivor who founded Australia’s largest and finest kosher bakery chain, Glick’s Cakes and Bagels. Born in 1924 in a Polish town near the Czech border, Glick was in 6 concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Buchenwald. He was the sole survivor of his family; his parents […]
💙🇮🇱 This is what the ultimate victory looks like: A Holocaust survivor sits with his 5th grandchild currently serving in the Israel Defense Forces. Source: @hen_gal
Oskar Schindler being lifted on a chair at the 25th wedding anniversary of Murray and Louise Pantirer in 1972. Murray was one of the 1,200 Jews saved by Schindler during the Holocaust. Image: Justin Pines, grandson of Murray and Louise Source: American Society for Yad Vashem Young Leadership Associates
Happy 100th Birthday! Born September 3, 1919, Holocaust survivor Sam Weinreich, appealed to social media with the hope of receiving 100 birthday cards by his 100th birthday. Spoiler alert, there were more than 100 cards delivered. Social media sharing alone, yielded thousands of well wishes and action, various pages and […]
On this day, August 30, 1942, pastor André Trocmé urged the congregants in his overflowing church to “Do the will of God, not of men”. When the deportations began in France in summer 1942, he urged his congregation to give shelter to any Jew who should ask for it. “These […]
Holocaust survivor Ágnes Keleti is the most decorated female Jewish Olympian of all time. Born in Budapest in 1921, Keleti survived by using a false identity, while her mother and sister were saved by Raoul Wallenberg. However, her father and uncles were murdered in Auschwitz. After the war, Keleti went […]
At 92 years old, he was one of the few remaining Holocaust survivors who was living life to the fullest despite the hardships he’s endured. Born on August 9th, 1927 in Romania, Yidel as he was known, was just a young boy when the war broke out. He managed to […]
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, […]
