Meet Arturo Meneguzzi.
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 […]
Praying for the safety of Israel.
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 […]
Happy 100th Birthday Julius Eisenstein
This past Sunday, Holocaust survivor Julius Eisenstein celebrated his 100th birthday! Julius was born on October 13, 1919 in Tomoszów Mazowiecki, Poland. He and his family were forced to live in the Jewish ghetto of their town from 1940-1943. From there, Julius was transported to the Blizin Labor Camp and […]
Meet Daniel Gold.
Holocaust survivor Daniel Gold was born in Šiauliai, Lithuania in 1937. He was interned in the Šiauliai ghetto for three years with his parents. Just before all the children of the ghetto were rounded up and sent to their deaths in 1943, Daniel’s mother hid him and his cousins in […]
Elias Feinzilberg.
Holocaust survivor Elias Feinzilberg was born in Łódź, Poland on October 22, 1917. When the war broke out, his entire family was forced into the Łódź Ghetto. Elias left to perform hard labor, as he was told that the Germans would pay his family for his work. But, they never […]
Mendel Glick.
Meet Mendel Glick, the Holocaust survivor who founded Australia’s largest and finest kosher bakery chain, Glick’s Cakes and Bagels. Born in 1924 in a Polish town near the Czech border, Glick was in 6 concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Buchenwald. He was the sole survivor of his family; his parents […]
Oskar Schindler at Pantirer Wedding Anniversary
Oskar Schindler being lifted on a chair at the 25th wedding anniversary of Murray and Louise Pantirer in 1972. Murray was one of the 1,200 Jews saved by Schindler during the Holocaust. Image: Justin Pines, grandson of Murray and Louise Source: American Society for Yad Vashem Young Leadership Associates
Happy 100th Birthday Sam Weinreich
Happy 100th Birthday! Born September 3, 1919, Holocaust survivor Sam Weinreich, appealed to social media with the hope of receiving 100 birthday cards by his 100th birthday. Spoiler alert, there were more than 100 cards delivered. Social media sharing alone, yielded thousands of well wishes and action, various pages and […]
Ágnes Keleti
Holocaust survivor Ágnes Keleti is the most decorated female Jewish Olympian of all time. Born in Budapest in 1921, Keleti survived by using a false identity, while her mother and sister were saved by Raoul Wallenberg. However, her father and uncles were murdered in Auschwitz. After the war, Keleti went […]
Man’s Best Friend
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 […]
Friendship.
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
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 […]
Meet Francine Christophe.
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 […]
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 […]
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 two […]
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
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.”
Yad Vashem’s Young Leadership Takes Holocaust Education to a New Audience
Click here to read: Yad Vashem’s Young Leadership Takes Holocaust Education to a New Audience by Cindy Grosz The Young Leadership Associates Chairpersons are Rachel Shnay and Josh Gelnick. Many young “celebrity bloggers” like Humans Of Judaism and Jewish Chick attended. Reality star, best-selling author and Jewish activist, Siggy Flicker, was […]
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, […]
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