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 […]
Yaakov Weksler: At 35 He Discovered He is Jewish, Today He Celebrates His Bar Mitzvah
Last week, Yaakov Weksler (b. 1943) had his Bar Mitzvah in the Yad Vashem Synagogue. A former Polish Catholic priest, Yaakov (formerly Romuald Waszkinel) discovered at age 35 that he was in fact the son of Jews killed in the Holocaust. In the hopes of saving their infant son’s life, […]
Survivors Celebrate a New Great Grandson
MAZAL TOV: Both survived the Holocaust and this week together they welcomed their 13th great grandson into the family! Source: StandWithUs
This.
✡️ This. Source: Rabbi Uri Pilichowski
Incredible Image from the Gamaraal Foundation
#WeRemember #NeverForget #NeverAgain #AmYisraelChai International Holocaust Remembrance Day Source: beat mumenthaler – photographerGamaraal Foundation
Never Forget.
#WeRemember #NeverForget #NeverAgain #AmYisraelChai ✡️ International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Gal Gadot Remembers
#WeRemember #NeverForget #NeverAgain #AmYisraelChai ✡️ International Holocaust Remembrance Day Source: Gal Gadot
We Remember.
#WeRemember ✡️ International Holocaust Remembrance Day
6 million reasons to live like a Jew.
✡️ #WeRemember #NeverForget #NeverAgain 🕯 International Holocaust Remembrance Day
The Liberation Of Auschwitz, 1945.
The Liberation Of Auschwitz, 1945. #WeRemember Source: History In Pictures Photograph by Boris Ignatovich. — at Auschwitz Birkenau.
#WeRemember
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2018 #WeRemember — in Berlin, Germany
Meet Leslie Kleinman
Leslie Kleinman was born on 29th May 1929 in Ambud, a small village near Satu Mare in Romania, into an Orthodox Jewish family. He had four brothers and three sisters and his father was a Rabbi. The family’s peaceful world was first disrupted when Hungary occupied this area of Romania […]
Eva Heller Recognized Herself in Holocaust Video
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 […]
Surrounded by those he saved, Nicholas Winton
In 1939, a young British stockbroker named Nicholas Winton saved 669 Jewish kids from Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust by providing them safe passage to Britain. He never spoke of what he did and it remained a secret for fifty years until his wife discovered a scrapbook in the attic with […]
Josh Gad remembers his Grandfather
“3 years ago today, we said goodbye to one of the greatest human beings I’ve ever known, Joseph Greenblatt, my Grandfather. We miss you everyday Papa.” – Josh Gad
Double Birthday
When you turn 39 the same day as your grandfather turns 93 🎉 Happy Birthday to Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg who shares his birthday with grandson Barry Levine. #mazaltov Source: American Society for Yad Vashem Young Leadership Associates
CONDOLENCES: Georges Loinger
CONDOLENCES: Georges Loinger. Loinger was born in Strasbourg in 1910 and was best known as a French Resistance hero having saved 350 Jewish children during WWII. Loinger said that he used to train the children to run before telling them they were going to play ball near the border. “I […]
CONDOLENCES: Holocaust survivor Simcha Rotem
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 […]
Incredible.
He stands upright and proud, unafraid, strong, courageous. He exemplifies defiance as he stares down Heinrich Himmler, the dreaded head of the SS, at the Shirokaya Street Concentration Camp in Minsk, Belarus, in 1941. Source: @historicalsnapshots — in Minsk, Belarus
25 Years Later: Can you name this movie?
25 Years Later: Can you name this movie? I’m sure most of you can. This iconic image served as a powerful message within the historic film. Schindler’s List was released to the public 25 years ago on December 15, 1993. The American epic historical period drama film was directed and […]
CONDOLENCES: Flóra Klein
CONDOLENCES: “We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Holocaust survivor, Flóra Klein, z”l. Klein and her son, Gene Simmons, were honored at our 2017 Salute to Hollywood Benefit Gala, where they received the Legacy Award. Born in Jánd, Hungary, Klein was just 14 when she and her […]
CHANUKAH 1931
CHANUKAH 1931 “It was on a Friday afternoon right before Shabbat that this photo was taken. My grandmother realized that this was a historic photo, and she wrote on the back of the photo that ‘their flag wishes to see the death of Judah, but Judah will always survive, and […]
Germany: Then and Now
✡️ Then and Now Source: Joseph Waks — in Berlin, Germany.
Visit to Yad Vashem, November 2018
When planning this trip to Israel, it was important to prioritize a visit to Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem. Yad Vashem is Israel’s official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. I invited along my incredible friend JamieGeller.com and her mother to share in the experience. Having been there […]
4 Cousins and Great Grandsons to Holocaust Survivors Serve in the IDF
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 […]
Shoes on the Danube Promenade
During WWII, Jews in Budapest were brought to the edge of the Danube, ordered to remove their shoes, and shot, falling into the water below. 60 pairs of iron shoes now line the river’s bank, a ghostly memorial to the victims. ‘Shoes on the Danube Promenade’ by Can Togay and […]
“We fled Germany on November 9th, 1938”
“We fled Germany on November 9th, 1938. It was called the Crystal Night, because there were demonstrations against Jews all over Germany, and many windows were being broken. We were living on the outskirts of Hanover. When my father came home from work that night, he told us that the […]
80 Years Ago Today: Kristallnacht night of terror, November 9-10, 1938
80 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 […]