Anne Frank
90 years ago today, Anne Frank was born. 77 years ago today, she received a blank diary for her 13th birthday.
3 Jewish men arrived in Auschwitz
3 Jewish men arrived in Auschwitz on the same day and were tattooed 10 numbers apart. 73 years later they meet each other for the first time for the “Last Eyewitness Project”, a gathering of Holocaust survivors who share their stories with the younger generations. Source: History’s Cool Kids
Meet Judith Leiber
Who Knew! Did you know that iconic handbag designer Judith Leiber was a Holocaust survivor? Leiber (née Peto) was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1921 and became the first master craftswoman in the Hungarian Handbag Guild. During the war, the Peto family managed to obtain a Schutzpass (Swiss Pass), allowing […]
Holocaust survivors arrive at the Haifa Port, 1945.
Holocaust survivors arrive at the Haifa Port, 1945. Source: Government Press Office
Yom HaShoah 2019
#AmYisraelChai ✡️ #YomHaShoah Source: Rubi Hammerschlag
A small silver bell that once adorned a Torah scroll in a shul in Nazi Germany
A bell. A small silver bell that once adorned a Torah scroll in a shul in Nazi Germany. It was November 9 and 10th, 1938 which came to be known as Kristallnacht or Reichskristallnacht, also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass-for the shards of broken glass that littered […]
Moment of Silence: Yom HaShoah
WATCH: Every year on #YomHaShoah, traffic in Israel comes to a complete standstill as drivers share a moment of silence for #HolocaustRemembranceDay.
Meet Edward Mosberg
Edward Mosberg was born in 1926 in Kraków, Poland. As a teenager, he and his family were forced into the Kraków ghetto. From there, Mosberg went to Platzów concentration camp and was later sent to the Mauthausen camp in Austria as a slave laborer and then finally to Linz. Knowing […]
Who Knew: Tony Bennett captured Nazis and liberated a concentration camp
Who Knew!🎙 Legendary American jazz singer Tony Bennett captured Nazis and liberated a concentration camp. Drafted into the Army in 1944, Cpl. Bennett was assigned to the 255th Infantry Regiment of the 63rd Division. His team moved through France into Germany, where they fought on the front lines. They captured […]
Queen of Kosher
‘My 96 year old mother-in-law making her lokshen recipe for Passover, wearing her Queen of Kosher apron. Her name is Joyce Wagner and she has written a book about her experience in Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen: “A Promise Kept To Bear Witness”.’ Source: Jennifer Wagner
The Blue Sweater.
”This elegant lady of 95 walked in to the seder tonight in a beautiful rich blue sweater. When I commented on how lovely it was, she was quick to tell me its story. Helena survived three concentration camps and when the last one was liberated she was flown by the […]
Buchenwald Liberation: Today in History
On April 11, 1945, the Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated by American forces. Pictured are survivors from Buchenwald at the Haifa Port on the way to the Atlit Detention Camp (July, 1945). The little boy holding the flag is Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, former Chief Rabbi of Israel! 🇮🇱At 8 […]
I waited 65 years to give her a kiss.
#nationalsiblingday ♥️ After decades of believing that most of her immediate family had perished in the Holocaust, Hilda Shlick (née Glasberg) was reunited with her brother Simon Glasberg in 2006. The family was separated when the Nazis invaded their hometown of Chernowitz, Romania in 1941. Hilda and her older sister […]
Meet Julia Wallach.
So amazing to watch Holocaust survivor Julia Wallach share her matzo ball recipe with her granddaughter Frankie! ❤️ Born in Paris in 1925, Julia Wallach was arrested from the house she was hiding in with her father. They were taken to the Drancy internment camp before being deported to Auschwitz […]
CONDOLENCES: Leonid Bernstein
CONDOLENCES: Leonid Bernstein Bernstein was born in Ukraine in 1921. He was a real hero, a highly decorated anti-Nazi fighter; known for when he sabotaged Nazi train transports and located the German V2 rocket production facility enabling its precise bombing by the Soviets. Bernstein also took part in the liberation […]
Who Knew: Curious George
Who Knew! 🐵🍌 Before becoming a children’s literary icon, Curious George fled Nazi Europe in the basket of a bicycle. His creators, H.A. and Margret Rey, were both German Jews living in Paris when the Nazis invaded France in 1940. With little to no escape options, the couple fled on […]
Meet Peter Feigl.
Peter Feigl dedicated his diary to his parents after they left him in the care of Quakers to help hide his Jewish identity. “I wanted them to know everything I did while we were separated.” But then he lost the diary, which contained his only photos of his mother and […]
Meet Berta and Lily.
Here is a picture of my daughter Lily with her great-grandmother Berta Moszkowicz. Berta was born in Berlin and survived the Holocaust after her parents put her on the Kindertransport. Berta was able to go on the Kindertransport to London thanks to the kindness of an older cousin Lily who […]
Vera Schaufeld
Vera Schaufeld first came to England on the Kindertransport in 1939 from Czechoslovakia, and has dedicated her life to teaching adults and children with little or no knowledge of the English language. Vera was involved in the establishment of the The National Holocaust Centre and Museum and has frequently spoken […]
Simcha Horowitz.
Holocaust survivor Simcha Horowitz holding his great-grandson Azi Rifkin. Simcha survived Auschwitz and became one of the founders of the Israeli Air Force. Source: American Society for Yad Vashem Young Leadership Associates
CONDOLENCES: Rafi Eitan
CONDOLENCES: Rafi Eitan Rafi Eitan famously led the operation to bring in Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Born November 23, 1926 in Israel to Russian immigrants, Eitan served as a soldier in the Yiftach Brigade, participating in combat operations, and was wounded in combat on the day after Israeli independence […]
Good Morning from Poland #AmYisraelChai
Good Morning from Poland #AmYisraelChai ✡️ #tefillinforyitzi Source: GO Kosher Travel via Bentzi Sasson — at Auschwitz
Happy 100th Birthday Olga Perlmutter
Olga Perlmutter was in her mid-20s when the Nazi regime captured her family, killed her siblings and forced her into slave labour at Auschwitz. As she celebrates to her 100th birthday today in Montreal, she doesn’t let those sad memories keep her down. “All my life, I have had miracles,” […]
Who Knew!
🤔 Who knew! Source: UberFacts
Double Bar Mitzvah
Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg, 93, shares the same birthday as his grandson Barry, 39. “I did not have a Bar Mitzvah before World War II, but In 1980 my grandson, Barry, was born. It was my birthday and then 13 years later we had our Bar Mitzvahs together.”
Mazal Tov: Israeli Oscar Winner Guy Nattiv
“My grandparents are Holocaust survivors. The bigotry that they experienced in the Holocaust – we see that everywhere today, in America, in Europe. This film is about education, about teaching your kids a better way.” Mazal tov to Israeli director Guy Nattiv, whose short film ‘Skin,’ about a skinhead who […]
78 Years Ago Today.
78 years ago today, 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk, Poland. Source: HistoryBites
Check Out This Painting!
Super close up of super-talented artist David Jon Kassan, working on his painting of the amazing Eva Schloss, educator and Survivor of the Shoah (Holocaust). Also Anne Frank’s Stepsister. Oil on panel, life-sized.
Meet Diane von Furstenberg
Meet DVF – Diane von Furstenberg. Diane von Fürstenberg (born Diane Simone Michelle Halfin) is a Belgian-American fashion icon best known for her wrap dress design. She was born December 31, 1946 in Brussels, Belgium to a Moldovian-born father and a Greek-born mother. Diane’s mother, Lily Nahmias, was a holocaust […]
Happy 100th Birthday Lena Goldstein
Lena Goldstein was a 20-year-old student when Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. Confined to the Warsaw Ghetto, where 400,000-plus Jews were forced to live, by early 1943 she was one of just 35,000 still alive. Last week, Lena celebrated her 100th birthday in Sydney Australia. #MazalTov Source: World […]