November 11, 1918
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
Meet Roland.
“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 […]
47 Years Ago Today
Today marks 47 years since the Munich Massacre. During the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, eleven Israeli Olympic team members were taken hostage and eventually killed, along with a German police officer, by a Palestinian terrorist group. The Olympic competition was suspended for 24 hours to hold memorial services for […]
Who Knew: Tony Bennett captured Nazis and liberated a concentration camp
Who Knew!🎙 Legendary American jazz singer Tony Bennett captured Nazis and liberated a concentration camp. Drafted into the Army in 1944, Cpl. Bennett was assigned to the 255th Infantry Regiment of the 63rd Division. His team moved through France into Germany, where they fought on the front lines. They captured […]
Happy 100th Birthday Lena Goldstein
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 […]
#WeRemember
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2018 #WeRemember — in Berlin, Germany
Meet Leslie Kleinman
Leslie Kleinman was born on 29th May 1929 in Ambud, a small village near Satu Mare in Romania, into an Orthodox Jewish family. He had four brothers and three sisters and his father was a Rabbi. The family’s peaceful world was first disrupted when Hungary occupied this area of Romania […]
CHANUKAH 1931
CHANUKAH 1931 “It was on a Friday afternoon right before Shabbat that this photo was taken. My grandmother realized that this was a historic photo, and she wrote on the back of the photo that ‘their flag wishes to see the death of Judah, but Judah will always survive, and […]
Germany: Then and Now
✡️ Then and Now Source: Joseph Waks — in Berlin, Germany.
November, 11, 1918
On this day, 100 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’s Cool Kids — in Antwerp, Belgium
“We fled Germany on November 9th, 1938”
“We fled Germany on November 9th, 1938. It was called the Crystal Night, because there were demonstrations against Jews all over Germany, and many windows were being broken. We were living on the outskirts of Hanover. When my father came home from work that night, he told us that the […]
80 Years Ago Today: Kristallnacht night of terror, November 9-10, 1938
80 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 […]
Silent Heroes
THANK YOU: 94-year-old holocaust survivor, Walter Frankenstein, delivers a speech, during a ceremony at the memorial ‘Stille Helden’ (Silent Heroes) in Berlin. One of the most important tasks of Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem is to convey the gratitude of the state of Israel and the Jewish people to […]
September 5, 1972, We Remember.
Today marks 46 years since the Munich Massacre. During the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, eleven Israeli Olympic team members were taken hostage and eventually killed, along with a German police officer, by a Palestinian terrorist group. The Olympic competition was suspended for 24 hours to hold memorial services for […]
Winner!
#MazalTov “Luna, you’re a real badass! You brought great respect to our country ” – Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו Last week, Luna Korlima Chemtai Salpeter made history by becoming the first Israeli to win a gold medal in the European Athletics Championships. Luna won the women’s 10,000-meter run, which […]
Great Mini World
95 years old, Israeli Moshe Samter looks at his handmade miniature of a home lounge in his miniatures museum “Great Mini World” in Yokneam Illit, Israel. Moshe Samter creates miniatures of his childhood memories from his hometown Reichenbach, East Germany where he was born in 1923. In his museum he […]
Top Countries by Jewish Population
Top Countries by Jewish Population Is your country on the list? Israel USA France Canada UK Russia Argentina Australia Germany Brazil South Africa Ukraine Hungary Mexico Source: @welovemapsandfacts
Holocaust survivor and artist Kalman Aron died last month at age 93.
Holocaust survivor and artist Kalman Aron died last month at age 93. He began drawing when he was 3, and had his first gallery show in Riga, Latvia, at age 7. At 13 he was commissioned to paint the Latvian prime minister’s official portrait. In 1941 the Germans invaded and […]
The Hidden Synagogue of Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czech Republic was discovered only recently and here is the amazing story behind it.
František Bubák owned an apartment in Theresienstadt but was forced to leave by the Nazis in order to make room for thousands of Jewish prisoners. After the war, Bubák moved back to the property. Sometime later, he was doing some renovations, which included taking down a kitchen wall. As the […]
CHANUKAH 1931
“It was on a Friday afternoon right before Shabbat that this photo was taken. My grandmother realized that this was a historic photo, and she wrote on the back of the photo that ‘their flag wishes to see the death of Judah, but Judah will always survive, and our […]
Kristallnacht.
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 of Jewish […]
REMEMBERING KRISTALLNACHT
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 of Jewish […]
“We fled Germany on November 9th, 1938.”
“We fled Germany on November 9th, 1938. It was called the Crystal Night, because there were demonstrations against Jews all over Germany, and many windows were being broken. We were living on the outskirts of Hanover. When my father came home from work that night, he told us that the […]
“My great aunt Bella Ehrlich Korn was born in 1934. A month before her 5th birthday, she fled Poland with her family and endured a hard life living in the woods in Siberia and then Kazakhstan.”
“After the war she returned with her family to Poland in 1946 for a brief period before moving to a DP camp in Kassel, Germany for a few years. In December 1949 the family made their way to America on a ship named the Henselman and arrived at night on […]
The Stranger on the Plane
Meet Henry Monath. I was on a flight from Tel Aviv, Israel to Manchester, England when a frail old man, wearing a large kippah, sat down beside me. We began a conversation about our trips and after a while, I found myself captivated by his life story. Monath was born […]
What a difference 80 years makes.
THEN & NOW Tonight, the Brandenburg gate in Berlin stands in solidarity with Israel following yesterdays tragic terror attack. Thank you Germany.
״ה׳ הוא האלוקים״ Translated: “Hashem, He is God”
Israeli soccer player, Almog Cohen, kicked the winning goal for his team the other night. The real win though, was the victory dance when he lifted his soccer jersey to reveal a tshirt that reads: ״ה׳ הוא האלוקים״ Translated: “Hashem, He is God” Almog, you are my kinda guy!
CHANUKAH 1931
“It was on a Friday afternoon right before Shabbat that this photo was taken. My grandmother realized that this was a historic photo, and she wrote on the back of the photo that ‘their flag wishes to see the death of Judah, but Judah will always survive, and our light […]
“A photographer from the New York Daily News captured this photo of my grandmother, carrying my 11-month-old mother and her twin sister, on the day they arrived in New York after leaving Europe in July 1949.”
“My grandparents, Leon and Lodja Bloch, both Holocaust survivors originally from Poland, met and married in Germany after being liberated from the camps. A photographer from the New York Daily News captured this photo of my grandmother, carrying my 11-month-old mother and her twin sister, on the day they arrived […]
