These are my grandparents. These are my grandparents. This photo was taken on the Lower East Side of New York. My grandmother Miriam was born in the old city of Jerusalem on December 10, 1920. Her mother was born in Jerusalem as was her grandmother, great grandmother and so on. […]
Approximately 1.5 million children were murdered during the Holocaust. Chaim Rafael Gertel z”l was one of those children. Chaim Rafael was born in Hrubieszów, Poland. When the Germans declared that the town was to be Judenrein (“clean of Jews”) in October 1942, Chaim and his mother went into hiding along […]
Meet Holocaust survivors Matilda and Samuel Gertel. Born in Uściług, Poland (now Ukraine), Matilda (née Topole) was just a teenager when the war broke out. When the Nazis invaded, she immediately ran home only to find that her father had been killed as an example to others. Matilda, along with […]
Bubby Tuchman survived the Holocaust and lit over 100 shabbat candles for each of her descendants. May her memory be a blessing. Source: Rabbi Levi Duchman
This is incredible! “At this moment, in this place, there is no greater pride and triumph than standing here in uniform as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces. From the Right: my great-grandfather, Ze’ev and great-grandmother Hadassah, and their two children, Yosef and Arieh, at the entrance to the […]
Hi everyone, it’s me, Nikki Schreiber from Humans of Judaism. One of my cousins did an incredible thing. He put together a book tracing our family history back to the year 1470. Titled, ‘Links in a Chain, B’nai Yonah’s Legacy 1470-2011’, “This book testifies to the commitment of our family […]
“My husband and I (both born in Israel) decided to take our 3 children on a trip to the holy land after 11 years. my kids, born and raised in Toronto, canada never experienced such an amazing and heart warming and emotional vacation. we recently went to Jerusalem to the […]
