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, […]
CONDOLENCES: Rabbi Avraham Langer, born 100 years ago in Galicia, Poland, survived the Holocaust and was liberated in Buchenwald by the U.S. Army in 1945. This image is from January 2019: ”This is such a powerful picture and felt I should share. My grandfather with my 3 week old daughter, […]
Hatikvah in Hungary 💙🇮🇱 Almost 600,000 Hungarian Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. This weekend, The Great Synagogue of Budapest, one of the oldest and largest synagogues in Europe, was packed with over 3,000 young athletes competing in the European Maccabi Games. 🔉 Turn on the sound to hear Hatikvah, […]
Holocaust survivor Nina Dinar has always dreamt of hugging a Great Dane. Why? Because she was saved by one during the Holocaust. Born in Warsaw in 1926, Dinar always loved dogs and grew up raising them. During the war, she was forced into the Warsaw Ghetto and then sent to […]
Holocaust survivor Henry Oster and high-schooler Drew Principe developed a special friendship after meeting at a school assembly. Henry shared his story of being deported from his home in Cologne, Germany to the Łódź ghetto just a few weeks before he was supposed to celebrate his bar mitzvah. The only […]
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 […]
As young teenagers, Lily Soriano Alhadeff and Rosa Hanana managed to escape Auschwitz together. In recounting her story, Lily said, “We were going to die anyway. It was either the gas chambers or a shot in our backs.” So, when the Nazi soldiers were distracted by the imminent arrival of […]
💌 Please help Sam Weinreich get 100 birthday cards for his 100th birthday! His sign reads: “I am a Holocaust Survivor turning 100 on September 3rd 2019. I would like to receive 100 Birthday Cards. Please send to: Sam Weinreich 5731 Ashbriar Ave Memphis, TN 38120 USA” Source: @r.randomactsofcards
Holocaust survivor Francine Christophe was born in Paris on August 18, 1933. While attempting to flee the Nazis in 1942, Francine and her mother Marcelle were arrested and eventually deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1944. Marcelle kept two small pieces of chocolate for her daughter to use when […]
#WeRemember Elie Wiesel passed away 3 years ago today on July 2, 2016. He was an American Romanian-born Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Weisel was the author of 57 books, including ‘Night’, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the […]
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, […]
Who Knew! Did you know that legendary actress Audrey Hepburn helped save Dutch Jews during the Holocaust? As a young girl in Nazi-occupied Holland, Hepburn staged secret dance recitals to raise money for the Dutch Resistance. Known as “zwart avonden,” or “black evenings,” these illegal performances helped to support those […]
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 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
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. Source: Government Press Office
#AmYisraelChai ✡️ #YomHaShoah Source: Rubi Hammerschlag
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 […]
WATCH: Every year on #YomHaShoah, traffic in Israel comes to a complete standstill as drivers share a moment of silence for #HolocaustRemembranceDay.
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!🎙 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 […]
‘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
”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 […]
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 […]
#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 […]
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 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! 🐵🍌 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
