64 years ago today on October 13, 1958, Paddington Bear first appeared in the children’s book: A Bear Called Paddington. Did you know that the beloved character 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 […]
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 […]
“Happening right now in Tel Aviv, Ichilov Hospital children’s department. Volunteers “Angels” disguised in Superman, Batman, Spiderman…a.s.o. distributing “Mishloach Manot” to every child through the windows of their rooms. That’s my country!!!!” – Simon Gleicher
Window cleaners give some Purim entertainment at Shneiders Children’s Medical Center in Petah Tikvah, Israel. #PURIM: Coming Soon
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 72 years later in America. Source: American Society for Yad Vashem Young Leadership Associates
Those 82 boys and girls were then transported to an extermination camp at Chełmno 34 miles away. There they were gassed to death. This remarkable sculpture by Marie Uchytilová commemorates them. Never Again. Source: We Are The Jews
“My son seeing the Kotel for the first time. We were taught about Israel and the Kotel as kids, but nothing like being in the Holy Land and feeling Hashem all around you. When he turned around although only 6 years old, he had tears in his eyes. “This is […]
Kids make an Israeli Flag. Source: Robyn Adams
Child survivors of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp form a Star of David, 1946.
