“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 […]
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 […]
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
The two old time friends grew up together in Transylvania, Romania and were separated during WWII after which they immigrated to Israel and reunited yesterday in Giv’at Shmuel. The connection happened after their two daughters met on a vacation last week and made the discovery that both parents are from […]
This is what the ultimate victory looks like: A Holocaust survivor sits with his 5th grandchild currently serving in the Israel Defense Forces to protect the Jewish state. Source: Humans of JNF
Mugshot of 19 year old Zofia Posmysz after being arrested for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, 1942 She was sent to Auschwitz and survived to become a journalist, novelist and author. She is still alive today at age 95. Source: @historycoolkids
This Holocaust Survival Story is Amazing and Badass
“My dad finally got his high school diploma! Born in Poland, he wasn’t allowed to get an education past first grade, because the Nazis invaded Poland and banned Jews from getting educated. He survived with his immediate family by hiding out. He moved to the US and became a self-made […]
Happy Birthday to this amazing Holocaust survivor, beloved husband, father, grandfather, and great grandfather! Source: Esther Chill Photography
“How do you maintain humanity when you are treated like you are not worthy to live? You talk about books, you talk about poetry, you talk about music, you sing and you value friendship. That is what my mother taught me, which helped us to survive our years in the […]
Sund’Or flight from Katowice with FIDF…Captain Ofer Aloni Watch as this pilot tells his personal story and gathers the passengers to sing a song together. Source: Ilan Haber
Good Morning from Latrun, Israel. Rabbi Nochum Katsenelenbogen of Chabad Owings Mills laying Tefillin and saying Shma with Sheldon (Shabsi) Griner, a Holocaust survivor on top of an Israeli army tank, assisted by a loan IDF soldier. Mr. Griner was born in 1938 in Lublin, Poland and was saved by a […]
“On #Kristallnacht, November 10, 1938, Joseph Mayer was arrested by the SS in Prenzlau, #Germany and taken to the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. Although Joseph and his wife Anne miraculously survived and were able to leave Germany before the war began, all of their relatives perished. They died because they had […]
Betty has lived with PTSD for 70 years since surviving the Holocaust. After liberation, Betty screamed every night while dreaming that she was back in Auschwitz. Although she has endured extreme tragedy, Betty still believes there are good people in the world. Today she is a proud great-grandmother and hopes […]
Kathy was born 1924 in Olkusz, Poland. She was liberated by Soviet armed forces from the Görlitz concentration camp in Germany. This is a photo of Kathy sitting in her Los Angeles home holding pictures of her three grown children. Source: The Survivor Project: Holocaust Survivor Portraits by David Miller
WATCH: A 93-year-old Holocaust survivor receives a Bar Mitzvah A month before Samuel Heider was to be bar mitzvahed World War II broke out. When the Nazis invaded Poland, where the 93-year-old lived in a small village, his family was separated and sent to concentration camps. His parents, sisters and brothers […]
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 […]
“On the left is a picture of my grandfather, Naftali Deutsch, born in Munkacs, an area which is now Ukraine, holocaust survivor, veteran of the War of Independence of Israel (1948) and author of “A Holocaust survivor in the footsteps of his past”. On the right is a picture of […]
He won. Max Webb survived 12 labor camps and 6 concentration camps. After the Holocaust, Max, who recently turned 100, went on to build a real estate empire. #WeRemember Source: World Jewish Congress
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 […]
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Eliahu Pietruszka shuffled his 102-year-old body through the lobby of his retirement home toward a stranger he had never met and collapsed into him in a teary embrace. Then he kissed both cheeks of his visitor and in a frail, squeaky voice began blurting out greetings in Russian, a language […]
J & E The Legacy Collection …the number is the story. Click photo for more information. Click photo to purchase. Seeing a mix of letters and numbers tattooed on your grandparents’ forearm is something you never forget. My grandmother, Ella (Lucak) Rogozinski, has a number. It is A5674. My grandfather, […]
Rina Pearl Zakaj was 10 years old when WWII began. She passed through the concentration camp (Ukraine) and the Warsaw ghetto. After the war, she went on to Israel where she fought for it’s independence. Today, 70 years after the Holocaust, Rina has three grandchildren that all serve in the […]
“This picture was taken in a displaced persons camp about a year after she was liberated. She performed in plays as a way of lifting the moral of other survivors. Although my grandmother believes it’s important to remember the past, she also understands the importance of moving forward and celebrating […]
“…73 years later, my grandfather stands under the same sign with his grandson, an IDF soldier, at his side. The ultimate victory. He may not have fought with a weapon, but he is still every bit a soldier. Today, I tell my grandfather that there is no need to fight […]
Months ago this Auschwitz Survivor meets his great-great granddaughter, today on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember. “My Zaida’s biggest dream in Auschwitz, was to just sit on a chair at a proper table and eat a simple loaf of bread. Yet today, my Zaida, Auschwitz survivor with the number […]
Yisrael Kristal celebrated the event last weekend, reading the Torah and enjoying the company of his family, who danced, sang and threw candies. But Mr. Kristal was surrounded at the ceremony in southern Israel by his two surviving children, nine grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren. He is 113, and he had […]
Source: The Survivor Project: Holocaust Survivor Portraits by David Miller
