Happy 100th Birthday to Mr. Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials. Born March 11, 1920 to a Jewish family in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania, Ben Ferencz moved with his family to America when he was ten months old. After graduating Harvard Law School in 1943, he enlisted […]
Kirk Douglas, born Issur Danielovitch, on December 9, 1916 in Amsterdam, New York. Douglas is a retired American actor, producer director, author and has appeared in more than 90 movies. Today he celebrates his 103rd birthday. Happy Birthday!
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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
Mazal Tov and Happy 104th Birthday Elma! Last week Boro Park rehabilitation Center in Brooklyn celebrated Holocaust survivor Elma Slater’s 104th Birthday. Source: Vos Iz Neias
Getzel Lifshitz, a member of the Jewish community in Perm, Russia celebrated his 100th birthday this week. Rabbi Zalman Deutch, The Rabbi of the community (and Chabad shliach) gave him a new pair of #Tefillin as a present for his birthday. В эти дни пермская еврейская община отмечает замечательный праздник: […]
Happy Birthday Israel! #YomHaatzmaut Thousands of years old, Seventy years young. Source: Abir Sultan
“Wowowow!!! MAZAL Tov SAVTA!!! My 100yr young grandmother has just upgraded to a GREAT GREAT grandmother! 500+ offsprings and going strong!!! We LOVE YOU SAVTA!!! Health and happiness for at least another 100 yrs! ? ❤️” – Joseph Waks
At 90 years old, he is one of the few remaining Holocaust survivors who is living life to the fullest despite the hardships he’s endured. Born on August 9th, 1927 in Romania, Yidel as he was known, was just a young boy when the war broke out. He managed to […]
….actually you already know her because she’s the most photographed Human of this project (Humans of Tel Aviv). I started taking her picture when she was only 93, and that was when her love affair with the camera started. Every year she “promised” that next year – “with God’s help” […]
