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 […]
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 […]
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 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 ✡️ #tefillinforyitzi Source: GO Kosher Travel via Bentzi Sasson — at Auschwitz
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! Source: UberFacts
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.”
“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, 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk, Poland. Source: HistoryBites
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 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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
MAZAL TOV: Both survived the Holocaust and this week together they welcomed their 13th great grandson into the family! Source: StandWithUs
✡️ This. Source: Rabbi Uri Pilichowski
#WeRemember #NeverForget #NeverAgain #AmYisraelChai International Holocaust Remembrance Day Source: beat mumenthaler – photographerGamaraal Foundation
#WeRemember #NeverForget #NeverAgain #AmYisraelChai ✡️ International Holocaust Remembrance Day
#WeRemember #NeverForget #NeverAgain #AmYisraelChai ✡️ International Holocaust Remembrance Day Source: Gal Gadot
#WeRemember ✡️ International Holocaust Remembrance Day
✡️ #WeRemember #NeverForget #NeverAgain 🕯 International Holocaust Remembrance Day
The Liberation Of Auschwitz, 1945. #WeRemember Source: History In Pictures Photograph by Boris Ignatovich. — at Auschwitz Birkenau.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2018 #WeRemember — in Berlin, Germany
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 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 […]
