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 […]
“As a parent, the best way to lead is by example. My husband wakes up with a million things on his mind as he approaches the work day – but he always makes time for Tefillin. All 4 of our children have grown up watching him put Tefillin every morning. […]
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 […]
SOON: #Chanukah Source: Moshe Schlass
Two million people gathered in Times Square to celebrate the end of World War II, 1945. Source: History In Pictures
Thankful. Source: Power of Speech by G
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 […]
This weekend in London while riding the northern line, a Jewish man and his young son were verbally attacked by the man in this photo. The woman in the photo, Asma, did not remain silent or stand by. She spoke up to defend the Jewish man and his young son. […]
Hi everyone! It’s Nikki from Humans of Judaism. Here’s one of my own stories: In the 1930’s, my great grandfather Shmuel Nulman owned a grocery store on 443 Avon Avenue in Newark, New Jersey. There was a customer named Avraham Yaakov (Isadore) Friedlander who would make his way across town […]
Operation Moses: 35 years ago today, an unbelievable operation took place in Sudan. Israel’s intelligence agency, the Mossad, saved thousands of Ethiopian Jews, bringing them to their new home – Israel. Source: StandWithUs
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Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion meets with Albert Einstein at Princeton University in 1951.
“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 […]
🌍🇮🇱 Beautiful view of Israel Source: @wonderful.israel
Gal Gadot and Husband Yaron Versano on their Wedding Day, September 28, 2008.
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 […]
Remembering: Stan Lee Stan Lee, Marvel comics’ real-life Jewish superhero died one year ago today, November 12th, 2018 at age 95. Lee started Marvel with Jack Kirby in 1961 with The Fantastic Four. He went on to create Spider-Man, Black Panther, The Incredible Hulk, X-Men, Iron Man and The Avengers. […]
On this day, 101 years ago, WW1 ended. Here is a photo of a street in Antwerp, Belgium, where the citizens have gathered a few hours after the surrender of Germany, November, 11, 1918. Source: History Cool Kids
#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 […]
Then and WOW! 🇮🇱 #ShavuahTov #GoodWeek from Jerusalem Source: Sharon Gabay – Photographer
Did you know that Harry Houdini, the great escape artist and world-famous magician, was Jewish? Houdini (né Erik Weisz) was born to a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary in 1874. His father, Rabbi Mayer Samuel Weisz, moved the family to the United States when Houdini was four years old. They […]
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 […]
BLUE CITY OF MOROCCO Chefchaouen is a city in Morocco that is famous for their blue backdrop. While it was founded in 1471, it didn’t get its distinctive color until 1492, when it received an influx of Jews escaping the Spanish inquisition, who brought a tradition of painting buildings blue. […]
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
